Recent content by Stelloh42

Thanks - I ended up staring at this and an original Bassballs schematic as well as a stripboard drawing of an original on the tagboard blog and I was pretty sure that those pot legs and Q1 emitter were all connected. Thanks again for the info!!!

And I meant Q1 not Q3

Hey all - this is not so much a troubleshooting question, as I haven't gotten around to building up my lowballer PCB just yet. I'm trying to understand the circuit schematic of this one and I'm wondering if anyone can explain that following: leg 3 of both the bass & the treble pot, as well as...

Ah - so the board I have is actually different from the build doc - got it. Thanks again! -Chris

Thanks - I think I'm going to try both ways (there's only a couple resistor values that differ) and see if there is a difference, or if I'm just imagining my previous build to sound better than it did.

Hey all - hoping I can get some clarification on this subject. I built up a Guvernator PCB today and it sounds pretty Marshall-y - just a little underpowered. For comparison - I have built this same board before and remember it having both more gain and more overall volume... anyway - I was...

I am running into the volume drop issue as well. I'd be very interested in seeing if this works because I'd love to be able to correct it on my build. secondary issue - all of the controls on my build work, with the exception of the octave up potentiometer. No sound at all from that one...

I know it can be done. The SLÖ by Walrus is FV-1-based and it is definitely a "trails" reverb. In fact - one of the only complaints about it is that it introduces line noise in bypass if you have it set to sound crazy dirty and modulated. I purchased a couple tails mod boards from Fuzzdog and...

Actually - I looked over Fuzzdog's schematic for his mod board, and from the circuit diagram, it looks like you are supposed to have the capacitor moved to the daughter board so that it is the last thing the signal hits before returning to the main PCB. So I think I may have solved this one myself!

Hey again - I've got one more question regarding the placement of the 1uF cap if I move it to the daughter board for the tails mod. Should the cap be the first thing the signal hit from the 'send' wire from the Dark Rift PCB? Or the last, just before the return BACK to the PCB? I was planning on...

thanks - do you mind explaining what the difference is between the two wiring diagrams I attached? I ask because I tried wiring two pythagoras boards in series the way that the first diagram shows - and the second circuit passed signal in bypass but went dead silent when turned on. thanks! -Chris

Thanks everyone - really appreciate the input. I'm gonna give it a shot - if I succeed I'll post a build report with pics!!!

I understand that the PT2399 can get really noisy if it's circuit has to share power on the same 9v as another circuit does. I want to build a double-pedal version of the Captain Bit first, then the Sea Horse second. Like I said - I know noise is an issue but I figure there is all ready going to...

Thanks McKnib - I got a little more info from someone who has built up this particular reverb board before, and the DPDT spot on the board is actually for a mode selector toggle. They also explained where the pads for wiring a 3PDT were - in seemingly random places around the perimeter of the...

Hey all - I recently acquired a PCB for a reverb circuit that is meant to have a PC mounted DPDT footswitch. With no status LED. I was hoping to wire a 3PDT switch off-board and use the two outer columns of lugs for where the PC pins of a DPDT switch would normally go. if I do this, could I...