CA138
Active member
Hi,
I finished building the Kliche Mini today and it's a great circuit.
Something odd happened though. I boxed the circuit and set it up for final testing, having made sockets for the germanium diodes (but I FORGOT to actually add them).
It not only worked, but actually sounded fine, even moving through all the gain and output settings. I have a few other Klone pedals that I have played extensively and nothing sounded significantly bad to me at the time of testing it.
After a few minutes, I realised I had forgotten to install the diodes and threw in a pair of 1N34As. It still sounds great - A/B tests against my Decibelics Golden Horse and I can't tell them apart.
I plan to test a few different diode sets in this pedal but before moving further - is it a feature of the circuit that it still works fine without the diodes installed at all?
I know the diodes don't play much of a role with the gain turned down - but I am really surprised that the circuit works at all with nothing socketed (let alone sounding ok with the gain turned up).
Last question - is there any chance I have damaged the IC? I did test the pedal with the gain high for about a minute prior to socketing the diodes and it sounded fine - in hindsight it was probably just the IC breakup.
Thanks.
I finished building the Kliche Mini today and it's a great circuit.
Something odd happened though. I boxed the circuit and set it up for final testing, having made sockets for the germanium diodes (but I FORGOT to actually add them).
It not only worked, but actually sounded fine, even moving through all the gain and output settings. I have a few other Klone pedals that I have played extensively and nothing sounded significantly bad to me at the time of testing it.
After a few minutes, I realised I had forgotten to install the diodes and threw in a pair of 1N34As. It still sounds great - A/B tests against my Decibelics Golden Horse and I can't tell them apart.
I plan to test a few different diode sets in this pedal but before moving further - is it a feature of the circuit that it still works fine without the diodes installed at all?
I know the diodes don't play much of a role with the gain turned down - but I am really surprised that the circuit works at all with nothing socketed (let alone sounding ok with the gain turned up).
Last question - is there any chance I have damaged the IC? I did test the pedal with the gain high for about a minute prior to socketing the diodes and it sounded fine - in hindsight it was probably just the IC breakup.
Thanks.
