CAST Engineering Texas Flood

[kweefthief]

Is anyone smart and cool able to tell what this circuit is? This is the description from the website:

The Texas Flood overdrive pedal spawned from countless hours of research and development to take one of the highly acclaimed drive circuits that Cesar Diaz built for Stevie Ray Vaughan's signal chain. You see, this circuit was one of several making up SRV's tone. We wanted to create a standalone drive pedal that had all the magic of the Cesar Diaz circuit and then some. We brought more transparency and clarity to the circuit, and offered more available gain all the while maintaining the slightly-darker but focused and present tone. That being said, don't let the name fool you, the Texas Flood will most definitely nail that SRV tone, but is capable of so much more. It can be a beautiful clean boost, a sweet low gain growl to your base tone, a pedal that will send your amp into some serious gain territory with style while adding sustain and musical bliss to your sound!

 

[Robert]

Looks like a TS to me.

 

[Deperduci]

gain, tone level.. check, dual op amp... check. 4148's or 914'sfor clipping section... smells like a TS to me Bob...

Have to check which 1 it was, but 1 set of instructions for a TS board semi quote" SRV used a TS-9(likely the modded circuit TF is based on) fed to cranked fenders..."

 

[kweefthief]

how disappointing lol

 

[swyse]

I can't find any mention of a cesar diaz overdrive circuit on the internet. It has all the parts of a tube screamer as Robert said. You could get all the resistors and some of the caps in place if you worked out their values, but I think you'll find a ts9/808 with a few values changed and not much more.

 

[HamishR]

Looks like a very simplified TS with extra mojo from cloth covered wire. (Mental note - must use cloth covered wire in next TS build!!)

 

[KR Sound]

countless hours of research and development

 

[music6000]

Google Search:

Texas Flood - CAST Engineering​

https://www.cast-engineering.com › texas-flood

The CAST Engineering Texas Flood is a unique overdrive. Based on the Cesar Diaz modded tubescreamer for SRV; this pedal offers a variety of tonal options..

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

IMHO, the best TS mod is to replace the Tone section with something that sounds good.

 

[Big Monk]

Certainly has that bullshit YATS marketing.

You know the one: “After countless hours of staring at all the YATS schematics available, we made our own YATS that defies its origins and has more clarity, more drive, is warmer, smells better, sounds better AND uses cloth covered wire to boot.”

 

[Laundryroom David]

Certainly has that bullshit YATS marketing.

You know the one: “After countless hours of staring at all the YATS schematics available, we made our own YATS that defies its origins and has more clarity, more drive, is warmer, smells better, sounds better AND uses cloth covered wire to boot.”

If someone could make a pedal that makes my guitar sound like Jimmy Vaughan, I’d PAY for it. Edit: even if it had cloth-covered wire.
Edit 2: JIMMIE gd autocorrect

 

[Big Monk]

If someone could make a pedal that makes my guitar sound like Jimmy Vaughan, I’d PAY for it. Edit: even if it had cloth-covered wire.
Edit 2: JIMMIE gd autocorrect

The point is that if someone tells you it’ll make you sound like Jimmie Vaughan, it likely will even if it is YATS.

The power of suggestion is strong in this hobby.