Recent content by cdwillis

Damn. Bat 41 and Bat 46 are my most used clipping diodes besides 1n4148 and red LEDs.

Solder braid is my go to and I'll put some extra flux on it before I heat it up to soak the solder up off a pad. I have a solder sucker as well, but I haven't had as much success with it vs the braid right on a solder pad.

Here's what I've been working on. I've had a goal to make a "distortion" pedal that cleans up nicely and can go from an overdrive type sound to full on distortion. Another thing I wanted to do was use all logarithmic 100k pots. There's something about using the same pots that appeals to me for...

Yep, those are just regular old ceramic caps. 101 would be a 0.0001uf or 100pf cap. 105 would be a 1uf ceramic.I bought a few to use in some muff builds where I only used ceramic caps. 105 = 1uf 104 = 0.1uf (100nf) 103 = 0.01uf (10nf) 102 = 0.001uf (1nf) 101 = 0.0001uf (100pf) I don't think...

This definitely has that Marshall midrange snarl to it. Nice playing!

The output capacitor and that potentiometer also form a high pass filter. If you're using a lower value pot it may make the output sound thin depending on the output capacitor value. Just buy the correct pot.

Won't the resistor across the pot lugs mess with the taper of the pot as well if you're not using a linear pot?

The a250k pot is a good suggestion. Personally, I would even consider using a 100k pot if you're not turning it past 11 o'clock.

Can you share a schematic of this circuit?

What kind of fuzz are we talking about? The Sandspur has a 50k trimpot in series with the input cap. You could mount an internal trim pot between the board input and the input cap like that. That ones wired as a voltage divider, but you could try it as a variable resistor instead kind of like...

I can only imagine someone with no formal electrical engineering education trying to build some kind of circuit from an old textbook and discovering that connecting the emitter directly to ground increased the gain and made it clean up better with a guitar's volume pot.

I don't know the math, but also your emitter to ground resistor will affect impedance as well.

@Robert did this project get shelved? It was one I thought of when I was looking for another distortion to build

I love the enclosure color and the knobs together. Nice job.

There's a video where Ola Englund used one in his effects loop and compared it to putting it on front of the amp. It sounds much better in the effects loop. I think I've also heard of people plugging into the Metal Zone and plugging it straight to the return of the effects loop, bypassing the...