Recent content by danwojaz

Hey Everyone, I am trying to figure out how to mount two PCBs into a smaller 1590BB enclosure rather than a 4S6500 / 1590XX. Does anyone have any suggestion or examples of their builds?

@FangZhou You should probably change out both of them, and you don't have to change out any of the resistors and capacitors. The only resistor you would need to change out is the one I mentioned above if you want to use the pedal as a boost. I tried it and thought it was only okay. Nothing special.

@OscarA2B I would test the controls outside the enclosure. Make sure the pots are not shorting on any solder pads. I don't see a dust cover or electrical tape on your tone control.

It looks like to get the Drive knob to act this way, he changes R9 to a 47 ohm resistor. Here are a few bits and pieces I pulled from the official website: I’m sending this pedal with the OPA2134 (Burr Brown) op-amp, but it will also come with a standard TL072, and also an NE5532 op-amp, for...

Hey, I was wondering if anyone knew what resistor this was on the Informant drive schematic? It was modded by 1981 to have less gain. Before I take it apart I just wanted to ask. There are resistor leads poking out of the bottom of the board. That is why I am assuming this is the resistor they...

Yeah I have slowly increased the quality of all of my components over time. I used to buy everything from Tayda, but now I only buy hardware and resistors from them. I actually like their pots. For film caps, I usually get wina , and electrolytic nichicon / rubicon from mouser . I have had...

@jwin615 Thank you. Have you ever done a sound comparison, or is it just that they better quality ones last longer and have slightly less noise?

Hey quick question for everyone. I have noticed on mouser when ordering electrolytic capacitors, there is an “audio grade” filter. So, my question is, is there a difference from “audio grade” and general purpose ?

Hey Everyone, I have a few questions regarding pedal modding best practices. Usually when I modify a pedal, I just change values of components and use the existing pcb holes, but sometimes, a mod requires components to be soldered to a pot/ switch off of the pcb and wired to another component...

@MauroRibeiroGtr Did you get the TL072 from Tayda? I used to get the same issue in some of my pedals. Then I ordered some TL072s from mouser, and swapped them. The noise in all of my pedals went away. Since then, I dont order any Opamps, transistors, or diodes from Tayda.

Changing R18 to a 50K made it so the volume at 2-3 o clock is about the same as the volume knob at full volume.

It looks like those were just updated on the build docs. I took a screenshot of it right before posting it to the thread.

Hey Everyone, I heard a few months ago that the chauffeur was updated to have more volume. I have been trying to figure out the best way to do this. Would changing R17 to a lower value, or change the value of R18 be a good place to start.

Yeah I was going to try it out. I basically am trying to build a Kot lightspeed hybrid. Use the southern belle but switch the bat41 diodes off like the Kot hard clipping does and I want a presence knob to add more presence. I don’t like blues breaker circuits, but am trying to merge my favorite...

Hey everyone, I am trying to mod a lightspeed and want to add a king of tone style presence knob to it. Would it work to just super impose how the Kot did it into the lightspeed, or is there another better way to do it.