Breadboarding a Klon

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caiofilipini

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For some reason, I thought it'd be a good idea to breadboard a Klon.

I'm taking it easy, but the first milestone was hit today, the power supply:

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There's some cleaning up to be done, and I'm sure the layout will change as I go along, but I get all 4 reference voltages out of it, so success for now!
 
Well, I was planning on reporting progress as I worked through it, but I had a work trip last week and a lot of other things going on, so I didn't.

BUT, the good news is I finished it, and even though it looks a lot messier than I wanted it to, it works! The main reason I wanted to do this is because I have a KTR here currently and I wanted to try and get the breadboard to sound as close as possible to it. After I verified the circuit worked as expected, I started auditioning diodes, and here's the current status:

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I currently have a pair of ERIE 1N34A diodes in there I got from Pedal Hacker, and they sound surprisingly close! Vf on those as measured with my DDM is 0.358V and 0.363V.

I have some other diodes I want to audition before committing, but so far I'm super happy with this pair. It sounds much better than the first Kliche I built using a random pair of Russian diodes without even measuring them! 😂
 
Here's the final product:

Mirror Kliche

This is the build that resulted from my stupid idea of breadboarding a Klon, which ended up being not so stupid after all, as I was able to get it to sound close to a KTR I had the opportunity to A/B this against. The breadboard experiment led me to choose a pair of 1N34A diodes made by ERIE I...
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