Recent content by lrgaraujo

Nice, thanks!

Hey Chuck, would using jfets in parallel (like it's done in the Wampler '57) affect biasing?

I built one a few years ago, and I completely agree with Chuck's impression that it sounds very good. Brilliance and (misspeled) Treble are incorrectly labeled. Might be time for a makeover with some better selected fets

Hey Chuck, should tr1 and tr2 be as well matched in the Pellucid rectifier as they should in an octave circuit, for example?

Cool, thanks for the reply! I think I've understood it

Hey Chuck, is there any particular reason for the different source and drain resistors in the two stages of the phase shifter? I'm willing to give it a try when I find the time

I think I've read somewhere (but please don't quote me on that) that the 42tm018 (which is pretty similar to the 141P) can be installed backwards, and that makes sense since it's a 1:1 transformer

Checking voltages and trying to trace the audio with the probe are steps that I would take, as well. Bear in mind that the LED turning on and off does not mean, necessarily, that the relay is working, as it depends on the 555 chip.

I totally agree with the bellows being the best sounding Bass Fuzz out there. Well, now it's back to the breadboard, cause i'm certainly interested in placing a pot between the collectors

It is a folded aluminum enclosure that I bought locally. It is prety much the size of a 1590b

Built a bellows with a couple 2n3904's forming a darlington pair instead of the MPSA13. Really nice distortion and fuzz tones (and some cool overdrive tones, too). Very simple circuit, but really effective.

The service manual of the amplifier dictates 15v on the drain of the first jfet and 11.5V on the drain of the second one. I don't know what exactly is the ouput of the charge pump, but you should go for roughly 60% and 50% of VEE.

The L5 is an awesome project! It takes a completely different approach (an OTA is used for distortion), but sounds really good as well! The multifilter stage is also really interesting

Thanks for taking a look, Chuck! From what I could find, it sounds really sweet. From clean to pretty overdriven. I'm kind of obsessed with good sounding SS preamps, so I might try and recreate it (minus the reverb driver and recovery)

Sure, there you go: https://music-electronics-forum.com/filedata/fetch?id=831483&d=1382636822 If I'm not mistaken, they use some servos for biasing (but I could very well be mistaken)