Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Has no one requested this before? A great basic OD and mods abound. I'd suggest basing the board on the Keeley "Seeing Eye" mod.
DS-1
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bhcarpenter
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Bump for this! It would be fun to have options for building stock and some of the common mods. I imagine Mr. @PedalPCB probably has one lying around, but here are some gut shots from mine. Early 2000s I believe. First pedal I ever bought.
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Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Most of the common mods are component value changes. The Keeley mods involve switching different clipping diodes in 'n' out. Half of the parts on the Boss board are for soft switching. It should be easy to make a mod-able DS-1 clone, minus the soft switching.
BTW, the Defouler is very, very close to a DS-1. The DISTORTION control is wired a little differently, and it uses opamp buffers instead of transistors, but the rest is a carbon-copy.
BTW, the Defouler is very, very close to a DS-1. The DISTORTION control is wired a little differently, and it uses opamp buffers instead of transistors, but the rest is a carbon-copy.
Coda
Well-known member
Probably because most people have a DS-1 laying around somewhere already…
peccary
Well-known member
I've got one from the early 2000's that I think I've used once, maybe. Got it for free when I bought my very first bass and hated it, so it's just been kicking around in a drawer for close to 20 years. I just pulled it out to take a look at it and it had a 20 year old battery in it 
Had to cut it out.
Had to cut it out.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Any idea what the AnalogMan mod entails?
I think every modder has come up with some mod or variation to someone else's mod for this pedal. Got mine at a garage sale for $5; it had a busted TONE pot. Fixed that and then put in the CB mod.
giovanni
Well-known member
I can’t remember exactly, they explain some of it on the site. They definitely add asymmetrical clipping that can be switched via push-pull pot and makes it sound a bit more like a TS. Not sure what other components were replaced.
finebyfine
Well-known member
Oh man I wish I hadn't seen those clear caps, now I need them lol
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
All this talk about DS-1s prompted me to break mine out. I could not get the damned thing to power on. Anyone wanna guess why?
fig
Village Idiot
You forgot to take out the 25 year-old RayOVac?
non ACA Power supply?
If anyone is interested in etching, I worked out PCB layouts for the original MIJ version, as well as the post-1994 version. Both have the buffer/bypass section omitted.
I have not fully verified or tested the layouts (because haven’t gotten around to actually BUILDING them yet), but the MIT post-‘94 one was rev-engineered from my own pedal and the original MIJ one was created using the layout in the Boss DS-1 service manual. I can put them in high-res PDFs.
I still think it would be awesome to have a ready-to-build PedalPCB board available; it’s just that there some folks that still etch their own.
I have not fully verified or tested the layouts (because haven’t gotten around to actually BUILDING them yet), but the MIT post-‘94 one was rev-engineered from my own pedal and the original MIJ one was created using the layout in the Boss DS-1 service manual. I can put them in high-res PDFs.
I still think it would be awesome to have a ready-to-build PedalPCB board available; it’s just that there some folks that still etch their own.
Bricksnbeatles
Member known well
I’d say SIL pre-94, just because SIL is fun and “SILly”, and pre-94 because if you call it a ‘vintage-spec’ DS1 PCB more people will be interested in it than if it’s a ‘modern’ one
