Recent content by HamishR

FWIW The specified drain voltages worked perfectly in my first build but in my second I found the sound was a little squeezed - maybe a bit too scooped. To me it sounded like the transistors were biased too high. Reducing the bias voltage a little brought the newer one to life. I assume it's...

My dad took me to see that movie when it first came out. The entire cinema was a mess during that scene. The only time I have seen an audience laugh harder was when seeing Spike Milligan live. And he has a cameo in the Life of Brian. And now I have to try this pedal.

Sorry.

BTW this looks interesting: https://robrobinette.com/5E3_Point-to-Point.htm

Having built quite a few amps my favourites for small would be the 5E3 Deluxe and 5F11 Vibrolux (with a 12" speaker). I've built a tweed Champ with a 12" speaker and it sounded good but to me it also sounded kinda small - Even with pedals it didn't sound as good as the Deluxe or Vibrolux. A...

I would think that the Basic Audio Alter Destiny would be able to achieve that kinda sound without too much trouble. It's easily my favourite Muff style pedal. I have a schematic and a Vero layout if you can build on Vero. It's a low gain Muff with bass, mids and treble controls. Most Muffs will...

Ha! Same here! I have built lots of guitar amps and would love to still be able to afford to do so. There are quite a few guys in my town who play my amps. I have never built for profit - only for fun. And as a result I have become quite an amp snob! Once you hear what a good amp can sound...

Oh yeah I've built a few! I quite like this one. Here's the schematic. I haven't changed that much. I'm sure I could have done some things better but I have made this, it works, and I like the sound. I'm not an expert and I don't intend to go into production. I do this for fun and if someone...

I wondered if that was the issue. I like my overdrives to get along internally. I don't allow cross talk. I like pleasant.

I was just looking at the schematic for the Lead Solder Overdrive. I see it uses three TL072 ICs. In two of the TL072s the second stage isn't used. Why didn't they use two TL072s instead?

It's available here - PedalPCB

Ha! Yeah Deutsch is not my forté! Hell - neither is English!

No - I don't have any and have forgotten to get some. I have tried a few options including BAT41s which sounded terrible! This is one of those rare occasions where a simple pair of 1N4148s sound great.

I think this will do for now! I don't want to bore you... I was surprised when I built a Vemuram Karen - The Kadundra here - at how much I liked it. It's a really good aggressive, vaguely Marshall sounding OD. And again I felt that perhaps it had too much low en oomph with no way to control it...

The Perplexed layout seemed to generate more interest than anything else I've posted so I though I might post this one. This has become a firm favourite for me. I love the sound of this fella! I had been avoiding JFET ODs for ages because of the biasing thing. But recently because of Chuck's...