Homemade Dual Overdrive - Kliche Mini and Little Green Scream Machine

apierz

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This started with an idea to build a kind of two-stage Klon clone with a built in boost in front of it so that I could use the Klon side as a clean boost and then push it into the heavier clipping with the boost. After trying a bunch of different pedals in front of the Kliche mini I found I liked a Tube Screamer set to low gain the best. I used the little green scream machine pcb (a TS-808 clone) but did a Keeley mod and swapped some capacitors and resistors to get a bigger gain range and tighten up the low-end. Getting both boards and all the other parts to fit inside a 1590BB was tough and required using wires to connect all the pots to the boards, side-mounting the audio jacks, and moving the footswitches closer together. It is a mess in there! Sounds exactly like you would expect. Kliche mini side sounds almost exactly like my Tumnus and the LGSM side sounds like an 808.


It works!
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It fits! (kind of)
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Great job! The inside reminds me of a stripboard build with all that wiring. If you can box it up with no issues, fine. But, it may be worth your while to shorten some of those wires in case you need to troubleshoot this sometime down the line (cold solder joint, etc.).

Now go play something!
 
I definitely have several tagboard layouts that have similar off board wiring. it's not the prettiest, but you made it work, congrats!
 
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