Recent content by ChrsGuit

I've finally finished a Bluesbreaker variant that I'm very proud of... I own a genuine Marshall BB, and have tried a few of the usual interpretations... I built a few from different pcb makers, and I've finally been able to meld bits and pieces I liked of those into my own thing... It's one...

I was just looking at the circuit thinking about the tone modification, and was surprised to see the clean blend trim pot straight off the input ... I'm going to assume that the "input cap" I would use to adjust bass would then be C2 (since it feeds off the center lug of the Fuzz control)? Or...

I'd considered doing the "mod" like I did on my Rangemaster build... an ON ON ON with three separate value caps to adjust low end/brightness

do you prefer the matched or offset BC183 option? I'm building one mainly to be used with strats that have more "vintage" vibe pickups... say, vintage 62 type flavor. Im not a fuzz guy at all, as I feel they all sorta sound "the same" to my ears... The only fuzz I dig is an octavio/Roger Mayer...

I'm about to tackle a sunflower for a friend of mine... I really didn't want to go through all the trouble with germaniums... but willing to if it's worth it. Do you have any suggestions on Silicon or Germaniums I should try? PCB simply states "BC108" for Q1&Q2, but the more I read, the more I'm...

I swapped that pot value as well, as I felt the gain was lacking compared to the actual OCDv1.7 I had for comparison...

Yeah, it also adds a bit of a boost, ... very subtle, but it makes the knob sweep range more like an actual Reverb knob on a Fender amp, and it doesn't have the volume drop that the 39k resistor does

Hey Michael. Finally getting around to the Derailer. in your comment, you said swap the B50 to an A50 for the gain. On the schematic it's showing a B10k for volume and gain, and a B50 for the hi cut

Many thanks! I'll give that a go!

I have already built another Belton Brick Reverb, the Gravitation, and it's perfectly adequate and more... but it has a bit more features than I need out if this. Basically it's going to be a simple one knob Reverb for some friends vintage Showmans, Bandmasters, and other non-reverb amps that...

Many thanks Robert. I'll give that a shot. Would you suggest a conservative decrease, say 10%, or more substantial (25%-50%)

Just finished building the Sproing Reverb pedal. One glaring "problem" is that I don't seem to be getting much Reverb unless I'm cranking the knob all the way... Now, I don't expect it to have the same sound as an old Fender amp Reverb, but I'm just curious if there are any incremental...

I have a similar issue. Made an Aion Murmasa (Keeley Katana V2 spec)... He plugged it in, led flashed... Now it sorta works but is extremely noisy... Worst part is he blew it up the second he got it and tried it out. You said the charge pump has a protection diode?

I own an actual VCR and the VHS's I've built sound better... Only thing different *to my ear* is that the volume boost seems to be a very clear, sterile volume increase while on the VCR, it actually adds a fat boost... Great low volume but kinda gets farty... and definitely a bit of gain

I found the difference... When I built the original a long time ago, it was missing the volume pot... I had one lying around, and I just noticed I used a B100k instead of an A100k... so when I built one using the PedalPCB board I missed that and installed an A100k