Recent content by HamishR

That looks like a Sydney yard! Where are you? That's a cool yard. Most afternoons we sit having coffee in our small backyard with grevilleas next to our deck. Grevilleas flower for most of the year and have sweet nectar with the wattle birds love so we see them daily. Sometimes they have...

I would guess so - I can fit the inside threaded version inside a 1590 with top jacks.

I've heard good things about the Dagger OD so thought I'd try something. I like simplification so rather than using two single op-amp chips I tried using a single dual op-amp. It may (will probably) sound different but that's ok - this was a bit of an experiment. Now I want to try building the...

That looks like it! I didn't know there was a PCB. That's the schematic I used though.

At least the exterior looks way better than any Cornish pedal I've seen! I wonder if those 10meg resistors really need to be 10meg?

I like those chicken head knobs too. Isn't it good to have people like Chuck and Szukalski in our world?

This looks interesting! I built a "Brian May Boost Deluxe" a while ago which really nails his sound but it's not anything as exciting as a Deacy. I'm not really a BM fan but I like the Boost. BTW If you ever get frustrated at the wires not lining up with the holes perfectly in DIYLC you can use...

Now that I've had a chance to play this a bit (with a Gibson ES-330 through a Marshall plexi style combo) I really like it. It's a really cool sound. With Gain on full it's a pleasant enough dirty sound but I find that I'm really liking it with Gain at around noon - 1.00. It does the "edge of...

Hey @bluedmc777 - your soldering problems may be fixed just by getting a new narrower tip for your soldering iron. I replace my soldering iron tip maybe once or twice a year and it really makes a difference.

BTW I had a C10K for Bass originally but it made the low end come on too quickly. I also tried a 100nF cap at C3 which gives a wider range obviously but figured that the original has 220nF as the effective lowest level for bass, so... (edit) 470nF!

I had a Music Man amp for a while back in the day. I think it was an RD-12 - something like that. So when I found a schematic for a Music Man preamp I felt I should try it to see if I could remember how it sounded. I built one from what I now realise was a slightly inaccurate schematic. So this...

For me PCB is faster than stripboard but I have got pretty quick at both. The key to either method is to be clean and neat, use short runs of wire wherever possible and keep your iron clean. I don't find one method quieter than the other - as Owlexifry says it depends. I have built many...

Not much!

That's ok. I'm not going into production. 😁

Ok cool - I'll try that! I had no idea of any of that. The circuit is in a 2-in-1 pedal with two different JFET ODs, and the first OD is tick free. It must be that because it's not exactly over the power supply that it doesn't tick. Thanks Mr Jubal!