Help with some Blue Breaker mods :)

Travis

Travis

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Hi everyone!

I wanna mod the blue breaker circuit to get Closer to the Snouse Blackbox, with the presence control, maybe the Booster and one switch for Hi or normal gain.

Can anyone said the circuit diff between both?

Thanks guys
 
Travis said:
Hi everyone!

I wanna mod the blue breaker circuit to get Closer to the Snouse Blackbox, with the presence control, maybe the Booster and one switch for Hi or normal gain.

Can anyone said the circuit diff between both?

Thanks guys
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the presence control comes from the internal trimmer of the king of tone so no mystery there,
the booster can be done one of two ways, like the morning glory does with the jfet at the end of the circuit (subtle) or a whole other boost circuit tacked onto the thing ... that's the way I'd go, something simple like a SHO
gain selection isn't a toggle on the king of tone but the series resistor to the gain pot IS the difference between a red channel (100K) or not (10K) ... and that is the basis of the gain switch in the pantheon
 
I didn't do the research on which came first, but Suhr Riot, Marshall BB & Guv'nor, MI Audio Crunch Box, Wampler Pantheon and several other pedals all use the same gain stage setup, many with identical component values. Ther Analogman KoT is based on this circuit, but has some clever tone-shaping built-in. Of course JHS makes pedals derived from this circuit and claims them as their own original design. :p
 
honestly, the v1 blues breaker in all its subtle glory doesn't need all these bells and whistles as there's other designs that do those things just as well if not better ... if I had more time earlier, I would have said as much as it isn't like you're only going to build ONE overdrive pedal ever so you don't have to pack everything possible into it.
 
The bluesbreaker uses soft-clipping and guvnor uses hard-clipping. KoT, Pantheon, Morning Glory are based on BB's circuit, and Crunchbox, Angry Charlie and Riot are based off guvnor.
 
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