Hirti
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I kinda built this one by accident. I wanted to order a 1590XX enclosure + UV print for the Parentheses Fuzz but I accidentally ordered both for a 1590BB enclosure. 
Since Tayda orders are final I had to think quickly about which 1590BB projects I am interested in the future for which I could come up with a quick design for a black sand enclosure. The Shnobel Tone Daily Driver Overdrive was always interesting to me, probably because I really liked its slick design and because it uses these huge MXR knobs (my favorite knobs). I came up with the design in 10 minutes, it's nothing very creative but I think it works really well and it also has a bit of a nod to the original. Once again I used a 10mm led like I did for my Ocatrock pedal. I think these work really well on the larger enclosures.
So how does it sound? Really, REALLY good.
To be fully honest, my go to overdrive pedal the last couple of months was a Boss OD-3 and the Chauffeur doesn't sound THAT different than the OD-3. But there is just something about how it reacts to what I play that inspires me. The last two weeks I was excited every day to come home from work and play this thing and that hasn't happened in a while with a overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedal. Sounds way better than your typical King Of Tone etc. (at least to my ears). The two tone knobs have a nice range and the effect the High-cut has is quite drastic. Very versatile pedal that can even go to high gain when the gain knob is cranked. 
There's also the Courier Overdrive project which is a Daily Driver with more gain and more mid range that I might build soon too.
This project uses some funny parts like 12K4 / 576K resistors or four 2.5V zener diodes (or five RC4558s for an overdrive lol). I couldn't find 2.5V diodes so I just used 2.4V. Probably sounds slightly different than it's supposed to but I like how it sounds.
It did not power up at first because I used a 2N4401 for Q102 (Q100/Q101 are 2N4401) but it's supposed to be a 2N4403 which is PNP while the other two are NPN. I've also never seen transistors being used like that in the power supply part of a circuit. Can anyone explain what they are doing?
What also should be mentioned is that @Robert posted about Roman from Shnobel Tone updated some values and sent them to Robert. I used the new values for my build.
The updated values are as following:
C2 - OMIT
C9 - 22n
C10 - 10n
C16 - 1n
R8 - 10K
R13- 100R
Since Tayda orders are final I had to think quickly about which 1590BB projects I am interested in the future for which I could come up with a quick design for a black sand enclosure. The Shnobel Tone Daily Driver Overdrive was always interesting to me, probably because I really liked its slick design and because it uses these huge MXR knobs (my favorite knobs). I came up with the design in 10 minutes, it's nothing very creative but I think it works really well and it also has a bit of a nod to the original. Once again I used a 10mm led like I did for my Ocatrock pedal. I think these work really well on the larger enclosures.So how does it sound? Really, REALLY good.
To be fully honest, my go to overdrive pedal the last couple of months was a Boss OD-3 and the Chauffeur doesn't sound THAT different than the OD-3. But there is just something about how it reacts to what I play that inspires me. The last two weeks I was excited every day to come home from work and play this thing and that hasn't happened in a while with a overdrive/distortion/fuzz pedal. Sounds way better than your typical King Of Tone etc. (at least to my ears). The two tone knobs have a nice range and the effect the High-cut has is quite drastic. Very versatile pedal that can even go to high gain when the gain knob is cranked. There's also the Courier Overdrive project which is a Daily Driver with more gain and more mid range that I might build soon too.This project uses some funny parts like 12K4 / 576K resistors or four 2.5V zener diodes (or five RC4558s for an overdrive lol). I couldn't find 2.5V diodes so I just used 2.4V. Probably sounds slightly different than it's supposed to but I like how it sounds.
It did not power up at first because I used a 2N4401 for Q102 (Q100/Q101 are 2N4401) but it's supposed to be a 2N4403 which is PNP while the other two are NPN. I've also never seen transistors being used like that in the power supply part of a circuit. Can anyone explain what they are doing?What also should be mentioned is that @Robert posted about Roman from Shnobel Tone updated some values and sent them to Robert. I used the new values for my build.
The updated values are as following:
C2 - OMIT
C9 - 22n
C10 - 10n
C16 - 1n
R8 - 10K
R13- 100R
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