Fulltone Robin Trower Overdrive (PPCB Tower)

MichaelW

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Build Rating
5.00 star(s)
Here's another one I built a while back and never got around to posting a built report. Shame on me since it's such a great sounding pedal.

So, yes, it's just another YATS with the input buffer stripped out.
The soft clippers is a 914 + 1N4005, or otherwise known as the "@HamishR Clipping Arrangement" hahaha.

I actually sat on this board for years before building it. Again shame on me. I was expecting a lot less than what the pedal delivers.

I figured it was just another TS-variant (which it is). Tonally it's voiced somewhat like the Fulldrive series but it sounds much better to me.

Essentially it's a high gain Tube Screamer but it's the end result is much greater than the sum of it's parts.
It's voiced very well and it's got that "Robin Trower in a box" type of sound that I can't "un-hear" heh. But it's an awesome, chewy, overdrive.

Throw a Electrovibe in front of it and it's hard not to riff on "Bridge of Sigh's".

Highly recommended build!

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Egads! There's uncleaned flux I left on the board.....I feel so dirty........

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