Recent content by NickDanger

Lowered C9 to 4n7 and it sounds great! Nice tonal palette.

These mods for goosing the gain up a bit are great! Love the slight mid girth the 220n cap got. One thing: what should I try if I want some more brightness? The tone knob maxed is a PERFECT sound, but there may be instances I’d need a little more high end on tap. A resistor/cap or maybe even...

Hey friends. Been toying with this circuit, as I really dig it, but have found an issue I’m a bit unfamiliar with. With or without the mods and tweaks I’ve done, there is a papery/crackly sort of decay, mostly noticeable at low gain. I really love the sound of the od/distortion but I feel like...

they limited me to one pack of each, so I will have fun experimenting with a few different combos! Each one will sound a bit different! Can’t wait.

Really into the idea of building a Box 66 or one of the Tone Bender style pedals. Anyone have a preference for which smallbear germanium transistors are the way to go? Their store opens tomorrow for a second!

Hey dude. Welcome!

I just built an Ionizer and I’m loving it, but it IS nasty. Roll the pre-gain/fuzz knob down low and also roll back your guitar volume for some cool gated dying battery sounds. Right around noon on the pre-gain knob, neck pickup, I got some awesome octave stuff happening. I still need to play...

Thank you! I actually used my ears (that’s all I have that works) last night and did some experimenting and pretty much found the same thing. Still kept the diodes out, but found that I quite liked that mid hump! I think I was lying to myself without the transistor, and the freq knob “seemed” to...

pretty interesting! Thanks for this. By removing the transistor, what exactly happens in the gyrator circuit, then? I just want to make sure nothing is about to blow up ?

Hey friends. Noticed there’s not a lot of love or discussion about the Arcana/Secret Freq around here. I really think it’s an underrated (and maybe poorly marketed) pedal. I was tinkering around with it after socketing the diodes, and removed one clipping diode at a time, to some great results...