Recent content by HamishR

So if I don't have any J112s can I use a J113? It's only one different, innit? :ROFLMAO: Seriously though, I have 2N5457, 2N5458, 2N5485, 2N5952, J113, J201, 2SK170, 2SK117 - Would any of these work in Q1?

I have a Herman Miller Mirra chair. Unfortunately I suspect it may be more than $500! When I made the switch to digital photography in the early 2000s I found myself sitting at a desk for much longer than I ever had before, staring at a large computer monitor. The cheap office chair I had was...

Hey @cooder - did you use a 2N5485 for Q1?

You like Tubescreamers now? You'll get over it. :ROFLMAO:

I would never use the Barbershop as a stand-alone pedal but it does make an excellent booster. Same with the Broadcast IMO. I admit to being puzzled by both pedals when I first tried them - the breakup is quite harsh in each. But often that makes for a great sound into an already breaking up...

As Chuck says you can add a switch or a pot to the hard clippers and in the past I have added a switch to the hard clipping diodes in circuits similar to this. But in this case I wouldn't because it's not a high gain circuit at all and I doubt you would gain (excuse the pun) anything.

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 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.