Amber Overdrive Midas Touch Mod

Fama

Fama

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Figured it might be worth asking, does anyone know what the Midas Touch mod for the Mad Professor Amber Overdrive entails? It sounds like probably some component changes, maybe tonestack changes or something else pretty small?

Here's the best (non-sales pitch) description I found of what is different, mainly more upper mids and treble it seems:


Edit: Sorry, that site doesn't seem to support https, it shouldn't be any issue but if you're scared, skip it.

Mad Professor employee commented on a forum: "There is also the custom Midas touch version of the Amber from few years back with more upper mids presence and clarity"

https://mpamp.com/product/43/amber-overdrive sales pitch: "Amber Overdrive with Midas Touch mod brings more harmonic definition and carefully added silky presence to this highly sought after distorted tone bordering on fuzz."
 
I'd love to see this too. The Amber OD is one of my favorite pedals and I'd love to see how others mod it.

I keep both my gain and distortion at about 9 oclock, so different value pots and maybe something to give it more edge and less fuzz would be great. I like some of the fuzz saturation, but when it starts to smoothen the top end too much it looses definition I like in an overdrive
 
falco_femoralis said:
I'd love to see this too. The Amber OD is one of my favorite pedals and I'd love to see how others mod it.

I keep both my gain and distortion at about 9 oclock, so different value pots and maybe something to give it more edge and less fuzz would be great. I like some of the fuzz saturation, but when it starts to smoothen the top end too much it looses definition I like in an overdrive
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I've got a standard version waiting to be boxed so I haven't played it yet, I'm just curious since I've got some extra boards. They also talk about the "starve" feature on their loop switcher, but looking at the schematic I don't know if it makes a huge difference to the drive control - it's after the first stage compared to being before the pedal itself, but I doubt the first stage is saturated in most situations?

For less fuzz, I guess you could mess with different clipping options maybe? Or I don't know if that would drive the following stages harder. I admit I did ask AI about how much the choice of JFET affects the clipping (it claims it does and other ones have higher/lower threshold with ~different knees), but of course I don't fully trust the answers.
 
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