Recent content by HamishR

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!

I would definitely build the lead version. The normal channel will sound very close to the bass version. It's a bit weird in the diagram above that it shows a 500pF cap in the tone stack with a 56K slope resistor. Usually the tone stack with a 56K slope resistor would have a 250pF treble cap...

I recently discovered that a JFET OD I have built on Vero makes a ticking sound when engaged. It's only noticeable when not playing. As soon as I start playing through it I guess it's drowned out by my racket. The other thing I discovered is that as soon as I lift the pedal off the board the...

Well I've been experimenting with this circuit. It's a great circuit stock of course. But through my amp it's possibly a bit more compressed than I'd like and I barely use the Normal channel at all - it's usually only just on, and anywhere above 9.00 it just adds a rumble and takes over. On its...

Try it. What's the worst that will happen? My guess is that it will work fine. :)

As for the volume thing you could try using an A100K volume pot. Volume pots should almost always be an audio taper. Chuck says so.

And Chuck you are so right about using a Treble Booster with this. They go together so well. I'm using a GPCB Beano (one of your recommendations) with it and the tones seem to mesh perfectly.

Damn - it doesn't seem that long ago that these things were everywhere but looking at the pics it looks so ancient!

I guess the difficulty is that as soon as we say Marshall everyone is going to have a different idea of what that sound is! And these days there are a LOT of players who have likely never played the kind of Marshalls which are regarded as "the Marshall sound". I suspect it would be a minority of...