cylnplnt
Member
Before you roast my build let me explain. The purpose of this build was to refine my building skills, experiment with vintage style components, and be able to try mods and variations without soldering(I don’t have a breadboard). This is my fourth build and I feel pretty good about it.
Some conclusions I’ve come to:
1)The vintage style components are a preference of mine. I based my parts acquisitions on an internal photo of a vintage Distortion+ on electro smash.com. I specifically noticed the use of ceramic and tantalum caps. As the pcbs aren’t exactly the same I did still use electrolytic in C6 and C7. In my current limited understanding I believe these are just functioning in the power supply section and are not effecting audio. Since I socketed the caps I’ve been able to compare to box caps. Even if it’s just imaginary mojo, I definitely like the way the old style parts look.
2)I definitely prefer the the sound with C1 absent, like in the 250. I like the clearer high end.
3)Most importantly I love the sound of the pedal. It will definitely have a place on my board. I like using it with the distortion rolled back from full just a little. Super thick, kind of fuzzy, overdrive. A nice addition next to my go to; the RAT.
I’m looking forward to experimenting with switching out the couple caps, and diodes that differ from 250, and seeing if I feel inclined to do a separate build with all the values as they are in that version of the circuit.
Some conclusions I’ve come to:
1)The vintage style components are a preference of mine. I based my parts acquisitions on an internal photo of a vintage Distortion+ on electro smash.com. I specifically noticed the use of ceramic and tantalum caps. As the pcbs aren’t exactly the same I did still use electrolytic in C6 and C7. In my current limited understanding I believe these are just functioning in the power supply section and are not effecting audio. Since I socketed the caps I’ve been able to compare to box caps. Even if it’s just imaginary mojo, I definitely like the way the old style parts look.
2)I definitely prefer the the sound with C1 absent, like in the 250. I like the clearer high end.
3)Most importantly I love the sound of the pedal. It will definitely have a place on my board. I like using it with the distortion rolled back from full just a little. Super thick, kind of fuzzy, overdrive. A nice addition next to my go to; the RAT.
I’m looking forward to experimenting with switching out the couple caps, and diodes that differ from 250, and seeing if I feel inclined to do a separate build with all the values as they are in that version of the circuit.