Phil hodson
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Evening all!
So although I haven’t posted much recently I have been, as @fig suggests, building things! I have just been too busy building and actually playing my guitar to post.
This is a bit different though as it won’t be with me long. So I wanted to get it out there before it’s gone for good.
It’s a gift for my guitar teacher. He once played through a “proper” Klon and loved it. So hopefully this can do it justice!
It’s pretty much stock apart from Tantalum’s for the electrolytic caps and I also matched a pair of D9J diodes at 0.35V which is Aparently the “magic” figure.
Working straight out of (into) the box I compared it to the original Kliche I built which as a pair of D9E diodes at around 0.37.
I have to say I prefer this one. Not sure if it’s the Tantalum’s or the diodes but wow. It’s louder and crunchier for sure. Nice and crisp but very controlled.
I hope to have a play with it some more before my lesson tomorrow before I have to say goodbye to it.
I may go through my collection of diodes and see if I can find some more around that same spec and see if it makes a difference.
Have fun and stay safe.
So although I haven’t posted much recently I have been, as @fig suggests, building things! I have just been too busy building and actually playing my guitar to post.
This is a bit different though as it won’t be with me long. So I wanted to get it out there before it’s gone for good.
It’s a gift for my guitar teacher. He once played through a “proper” Klon and loved it. So hopefully this can do it justice!
It’s pretty much stock apart from Tantalum’s for the electrolytic caps and I also matched a pair of D9J diodes at 0.35V which is Aparently the “magic” figure.
Working straight out of (into) the box I compared it to the original Kliche I built which as a pair of D9E diodes at around 0.37.
I have to say I prefer this one. Not sure if it’s the Tantalum’s or the diodes but wow. It’s louder and crunchier for sure. Nice and crisp but very controlled.
I hope to have a play with it some more before my lesson tomorrow before I have to say goodbye to it.
I may go through my collection of diodes and see if I can find some more around that same spec and see if it makes a difference.
Have fun and stay safe.
