apierz
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After falling in love with the Chop Shop and making it my main overdrive for the past few weeks, I was “forced” to find another overdrive to pair it with, providing me with a perfect excuse to look through the pcb stack and find something new to build. This one appealed to me because I like my clone of Cornish’s ST-2 a lot and the circuit was different from anything I had built. It’s also a diode clipper, so I figured it would give me a different feel from the Chop Shop’s JFETs.
Build:
It’s a Cornish clone, so @aionfx has packed the PCB full of components, there’s some weird resistor values and I had to use some less-than-ideal sized capacitors, but it all came together well. With five pots I decided to solder the pots to PCB before mounting the board. I hadn’t done it thisaway in a while and promptly soldered the first one to the wrong side. It wasn’t a fun desolder, but that was the only real hiccup. I hardwired the daughter board for buffer always-on.
Sound:
It’s a good overdrive with an active three-band Baxandall EQ so it has a pretty good range of tones. The closest pedal I have is a Mostortion clone. It resolves my two biggest problems with the Mostortion, (too quiet and too compressed), which is great. It sounds good across its range of gain.
Design:
I liked how my ST-2 clone came out, so I did a similar thing with this one. This is my first time using LED lamp shades and I dig the look. The pot spacing on the top row isn’t quite big enough for the normal MXR style knobs, but I found those mini ones which help it match the look of the original.
Overall, I don’t know what would put it ahead of the hundreds of other overdrives you have to choose from, but if you are interested, definitely give it a shot, it won’t disappoint.
Build:
It’s a Cornish clone, so @aionfx has packed the PCB full of components, there’s some weird resistor values and I had to use some less-than-ideal sized capacitors, but it all came together well. With five pots I decided to solder the pots to PCB before mounting the board. I hadn’t done it thisaway in a while and promptly soldered the first one to the wrong side. It wasn’t a fun desolder, but that was the only real hiccup. I hardwired the daughter board for buffer always-on.
Sound:
It’s a good overdrive with an active three-band Baxandall EQ so it has a pretty good range of tones. The closest pedal I have is a Mostortion clone. It resolves my two biggest problems with the Mostortion, (too quiet and too compressed), which is great. It sounds good across its range of gain.
Design:
I liked how my ST-2 clone came out, so I did a similar thing with this one. This is my first time using LED lamp shades and I dig the look. The pot spacing on the top row isn’t quite big enough for the normal MXR style knobs, but I found those mini ones which help it match the look of the original.
Overall, I don’t know what would put it ahead of the hundreds of other overdrives you have to choose from, but if you are interested, definitely give it a shot, it won’t disappoint.
