Recent content by ragamuffin

They're be GOLD in them there diodes!!!

Just finished my Sola Sound Yellow Hybrid Tonebeder clone, built from the Dirtbox Layouts layout! For transistors I used a BC107, BC109, and an ASY75 for the germanium purchased from Small Bear. To get the proper bias of around 2.6V on the Q3 collector I had to swap the R11 value from 220k to...

Solved! It was the 33nF capacitor being longer than the one in the layout. I pulled it out, bent the legs in a bit, and put it back in the right spot and now it's sounding great! Thanks guys

Oh wow I think that's it! Thanks, I'll give it a look/try to fix it tomorrow

I breadboarded and then built a Yellow Hybrid Tonebender clone on stripboard based on this Dirtbox Layouts page. It seemed to be working fine on the breadboard, but now that I built it on stripboard something seems off with the "tone"/"treble-bass" knob. At full CCW/treble side it sounds good...

Pandora better watch out: all the ladies gonna be wanting one!

Built a Paragon Mini with BA282 and 1S1588 diodes, "warm" mods, high gain right side low gain red side! I'm a little mad at myself for spending nearly forty bucks on "mojo" diodes, but uhh... well I did. That said, the pedal sounds really good! I have not played a "real" KoT to compare too but...

Thanks guys, looks like I'm going to get some MMBFJ201s and make my first foray into smd parts

So I'm wanting to build a Chop Shop. I've read that it can be picky about it's J201 JFETs, and read in another thread that ideally you want Q1 to have an Idss in the 600-800 uA range and Q2 an Idss around 400-600uA. I have not worked with JFETs before, but I assume this means that I should buy...

Nice! What size LED is that?

Oh interesting! I hadn't seen that For those who are interested, Reeves Electro commented on the Dirtbox Layout page saying that the 470pf cap was "about 10 times too big", ie the real value is 47pf.

Wired up the stripboard with my layout, installed it in the guitar and it's sounding great! Of course I did wire the pots backwards 😁

Love the artwork!

Yeah the purple is iconic and I don't have any other purple pedals so I think I'll go for it

Enclosure for a Paragon Mini that I'm going to build! Spray it with black metallic-ish hammertone paint to get some texture. I was planning to shoot purple over top like the King of Tone but I'm not sure... What color do you guys think it should be?