Chuck's breadboard take on the Distortion II

Gordo

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I got this one together on the Sequel board. It's a bit much to stuff the switch and associated caps under the board, and in hindsight should have used a micro sized switch, but managed a bit of crammage by cutting the tabs off the bottom of the switch.

I like this thing. It sounds a little over compressed much like the original and it's not particularly articulate so I can see the attraction of pairing it with a Muff. That said I'm anxious to try the final design Chuck came up with. The switch adds some nice variations and could be labeled "grunt", "fat", and "cocked".

Water slide over a Stompbox Parts gold enclosure. I'll fix the output jacks at my leisure, both were reused: one of them looks like it was murdered and the other had to be mounted sideways so as not to ground out on the pot.

And after posting I noticed I have the output plate on the 9-18v side, although I want to pull the chip and experiment a bit with 9v so it may be appropriate...
 

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Well, wasn't really expecting this but any of my complaints, though minor, disappear when the pedal runs at 9v. The compression especially is backed down and the articulation is better. At 18v the Resonance sounded best wide open but now you can play it thru the entire range.

Mods are simple: jumper pins 1 & 8 on the socket for the 7660 and jumper D101 and 102.
 
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