Recent content by HamishR

I think @spi might have it.. On a side note: I build with stripboard quite a lot, and have my own very anal ways of designing the layouts! If the board is to go into a 1590B enclosure I figure you may as well use a 19-20 column wide layout. There is an obsession within the stripboard community...

Well I'm sold on this treble booster because it's whisper quiet. Maybe even quieter, depending on who's whispering. And it sounds alright too. I think I might have run out of 2N1308s. I made two small changes. I changed the 1nF cap to a 470pF because I felt it bled off too much top end, and...

I find it confusing enough as it is...

I finally got around to building half of this today. I was interested to hear what the modified Rangemaster sounded like - it's very similar to a Red Rooster. I used the stock set up according to GPCB and a 2N2222A. I was surprised that it runs a fair bit quieter than any Red Rooster I've built...

It sounds so good for double stops and hybrid picked parts in particular. I don't know what's happening but it has a kind of extra layer of dirt in there somehow. I once almost literally bumped into Billy and his wife on a busy Lexington Ave Manhattan. He's not difficult to spot, even in a...

I'm really happy you like it! I mod stuff so that it works for me. When I do that it seems that it works for my friends too. Well, friend.

I like it when all the parts in a circuit actually do something. If it doesn't absolutely have to be there, get rid of it. I see a lot of circuits these days use an absurd number of ICs and not use sections as you see above in the Marshall 59 OD. I love nothing more than Chuck telling us we...

Wow - thanks! Interesting.

No you haven't made a mistake - there is flub galore in this circuit. It is based on something which isn't designed to be a guitar pedal. It's supposed to sound like crap. Only for me it's not the kinda crap I wanted - I was hoping for a different crappiness of crap. And I wholeheartedly agree...

It never fails to impress me how many parts can be used to build a pedal to fuck up a perfectly good guitar sound. Nice work Mr Grobbins!

Paul, I really appreciate you taking the time to post. I'm sure we all do. (well, except for the weirdos) A lot of my player friends are huge fans of the Tim and Timmy. You have quite the fan club in Western Australia.

FWIW I measured the drains of the transistors in this circuit on two versions I made. On both Q1 was under 4V - around the 3.6-3.7 mark. Q2 & Q3 in both were between 4 and 4.6V. So I tried getting the voltages all up to around 4.5VDC to see if it made any difference. Tonally very little...

Built another one yesterday and rejigged the layout to make it smaller. It works.

Nice build! I built one of these years ago and remember liking the sound. Actually I was thinking about you this morning when I was having my morning coffee at a nearby lake. It's walking distance from where I live and I frequently walk to a cafe near the lake for a coffee and croissant. I...

It's just too expensive where I am to buy NOS any more. As I build my own amps I like to use JJs and tune the amp to the tube. It's fun and affordable (except the bit where I can't afford to buy amp parts from the US any more and even tubes are becoming crazy expensive). The bits which are...