Recent content by HamishR

I quite like his playing. Wish I could play as well as he does. Less impressed with his facial expressions. It's a pet hate of mine. Sorry if this offends anyone but face making while playing to this extent drives me crazy.

Having played both, I can say they both sound good but not terribly alike at all. Using 2N7000s as diodes is very different from using them as transistors. As a matter of taste I much prefer the sound of the LPD 68. And IMO the LPD 68 sounds a lot more like a Marshall than the WIIO sounds like a...

If you look at the PCB it's obvious that the mids control is cattywampus there. It's just Robert's way of messing with your mind. Either that or I just wanted to write cattywampus. Here we would say skewiff.

FWIW it's hard to procreate with a software. It's a lot easier when it's hard.

I'm ok as long as mine is a prostate. It's those amateurstates which cause problems.

I didn't even know you could use positive feedback for the forces of good like this. With this one reducing C7 has helped open it up but I have now also reduced R13, just a little, to 2K7. I liked this one from stock, and now I have got it just right for me. With a 330 it is gloriously gritty...

Actually my first guess was going to be the tube rectifier but I checked the schematic I could find online and it doesn't have a tube rectifier. But as @jimilee says definitely check your power tubes. Kind of a no-brainer really now that I brain it!

Lots of them! The Animal, Blue Note, Majestic, and Calibre 45 are all the same basic circuit but with varying levels of gain. In some they connect the second half of the opamp to something and in others it was too hard apparently.

You could do that easily. As an example, use a jumper across where D9 goes and a small cap instead of D11. Then that setting is your treble snub. You'll need to experiment on values - maybe start with a 470pF or 1nF? Or if you want to maintain the diodes you can solder a cap on the underside of...

Surely that was done by a previous owner?? If you bought the pedal new like that I would never buy from that builder again! And yes, that would be to reduce treble.

Sometimes FX loops rely on shorting jacks to pass signal when nothing is in the loop. A friend of mine had a similar problem with a (I think) Peavey 5150. It was just that some dirt or corrosion had stopped the shorting part of the jack making decent contact - maybe the springiness of the...

I did actually use 2N5172 transistors - I think they were from Mouser. Sorry - didn't measure the HFE. Thanks @MichaelW !! The clone I built sounds just like the original I have.

If you like that one you'll probably like the Major Overdrive too. There is a Skreddy version and one he designed for Animals Pedals too. They're very similar to the Diamond Peak, so I added the bass pot in a similar way called mine the Old Fashioned. I think I might like this one even more than...

You might find Peavey style knobs at Antique Electronics: tubesandmore.com You got me thinking with your "Sibir" logo. May you should work out how to spell KLON in Cyrillic and build a Kon because you already have the Siberia bit. Why he calls it Klon Siberia I don't know. Maybe Finegan is a...

I'll try that now! It's remarkable just how much difference changing C7 made. I guess the circuit was excellent to begin with, but that one little change made a big difference to me.