As the International Mail Service Disruption is proving to be very real it's back to vero for me. I've been quite prolific and in a way having no access to PCBs has been a good thing, as I'm particularly happy with how these two particular pedals sound.
First is a modified Honey Beest, traced by Daeg who is a member here. Cheers Daeg! The Honey Beest is a pretty cool overdrive already, but I have discovered that for my use I prefer silicon diodes over LEDs as I like the bark on the low strings. There will be many who like the LEDs better and I can see why - I just prefer my silicon selection.
The Honey Beest has a gain, a pregain, a Nature control and volume. I guess the pregain control was made possible by the extra gain stage at the input. The Honey Bee has quite a low output, so I'm guessing this was Bjorn's attempt to increase volume and gain. It works. But I prefer to have just one gain so replaced the pregain with a resistor in my prefered range of gain and replaced it with a treble pot. So now Nature is two pots, a kind of treble and bass. I really like how they work in this circuit. It's a cracker.
Then there's the Model G, which i always liked in stock form but felt the C control did next to bugger all and wanted to split the nature into bass and treble again. It works particularly well in this circuit too - it's similar to the Honey Bees but has a leaner midrange and tougher sound.. Again, the LEDs went and silicons stayed. Sounds killer with a Gibson. Loving this pedal! Thanks for the help Chuck!
I'm still coming to terms with the slight crookedness of the board. Screwing the back onto the pedals helps, as does just playing it.
First is a modified Honey Beest, traced by Daeg who is a member here. Cheers Daeg! The Honey Beest is a pretty cool overdrive already, but I have discovered that for my use I prefer silicon diodes over LEDs as I like the bark on the low strings. There will be many who like the LEDs better and I can see why - I just prefer my silicon selection.
The Honey Beest has a gain, a pregain, a Nature control and volume. I guess the pregain control was made possible by the extra gain stage at the input. The Honey Bee has quite a low output, so I'm guessing this was Bjorn's attempt to increase volume and gain. It works. But I prefer to have just one gain so replaced the pregain with a resistor in my prefered range of gain and replaced it with a treble pot. So now Nature is two pots, a kind of treble and bass. I really like how they work in this circuit. It's a cracker.
Then there's the Model G, which i always liked in stock form but felt the C control did next to bugger all and wanted to split the nature into bass and treble again. It works particularly well in this circuit too - it's similar to the Honey Bees but has a leaner midrange and tougher sound.. Again, the LEDs went and silicons stayed. Sounds killer with a Gibson. Loving this pedal! Thanks for the help Chuck!
I'm still coming to terms with the slight crookedness of the board. Screwing the back onto the pedals helps, as does just playing it.