Inspired by PedalPCB??

[JamieJ]

It looks like they liked your PCB so much @PedalPCB they thought they’d get in on some of the action.

 

[benny_profane]

Also seems like they’re going the route of analogman and making a new product without needing any new development or marketing.

 

[ADAOCE]

I might downgrade(upgrade?) my protein to a carbon in the near future..

 

[cooder]

"Carefully extracted the Blue Side".
I bet it was hard... they must still have sweat running down the back of their necks.

Well at least the spin department had 5 minutes of work on this.

 

[benny_profane]

"Carefully extracted the Blue Side".
I bet it was hard... they must still have sweat running down the back of their necks.

Well at least the spin department had 5 minutes of work on this.

Adding those coupling caps is hard R&D!

 

[jeffwhitfield]

Reminds me of the KHDK Ghoul Jr where they changed a few bits on a classic TS808 and spit it back out as their own. More gain for sure...but doesn't really sound that much different than a TS808 really. Kurt Hammett got into a lot of hot water with some of his comments. You know, "a pedal company owned by a real guitarist". Right, Kurt...you stay classy, man!

 

[Robert]

You know, "a pedal company owned by a real guitarist".

Actual Overdrive Jr - PedalPCB.com

Compare to KHDK Ghoul Screamer Jr

www.pedalpcb.com

 

[BuddytheReow]

Actual Overdrive Jr - PedalPCB.com

Compare to KHDK Ghoul Screamer Jr

www.pedalpcb.com

Is there a schematic for this? I don’t see it in the build doc

 

[Robert]

Is there a schematic for this? I don’t see it in the build doc

Yep, let me update the doc and I'll get it in there.

That's one of the older Adobe InDesign docs before I switched to Affinity Publisher so I'll have to recreate it.

 

[jeffwhitfield]

Actual Overdrive Jr - PedalPCB.com

Compare to KHDK Ghoul Screamer Jr

www.pedalpcb.com

Gee, how do you think I figured out that a Ghoul Jr. sounds exactly like a TS808?

I actually built the Actual OD JR. and pitted it against a AionFX Stratus that I built with TS9 specs using MA150 diodes and a 2SC1815 transistor for the input stage. Actual OD had more volume...but not necessarily more gain per se. Tone-wise, with the extra clipping options on the Stratus, there really wasn't much difference in the two. Very, very subtle but, in the end, I liked the Stratus I built a bit better. One other one that is based on a TS808/TS9 that actually has a different quality to it is the Bootleg Overdrive.

 

[BuddytheReow]

So, is the actual overdrive just a modded tubescreamer?

 

[jeffwhitfield]

So, is the actual overdrive just a modded tubescreamer?

Yup! Need to look at the specs again but my understanding is that very little about it changed. I think they modded the input to give it more boost.

Oh, and they added some clipping options to give it different tones...which the Stratus has as well.

 

[coltonius]

Ew, that LED bezel.. For the price they charge, you'd thing they could spring for premium parts.

 

[jeffwhitfield]

Ew, that LED bezel.. For the price they charge, you'd thing they could spring for premium parts.

Nothing worse than a naked LED. That bezel is like the g-string equivalent.

 

[Robert]

I'm sure it's a great pedal so I'm not knocking it by any means, but I would have chosen a different set of knobs that didn't overlap the labels and extend all the way to the edges of the enclosure.

 

[coltonius]

I'm sure it's a great pedal so I'm not knocking it by any means, but I would have chosen a different set of knobs that didn't overlap the labels and extend all the way to the edges of the enclosure.

Yeah, it's not like they make smaller MXR-style knobs or anything.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I'm sure it's a great pedal so I'm not knocking it by any means, but I would have chosen a different set of knobs that didn't overlap the labels and extend all the way to the edges of the enclosure.

Too bad it's not in a gorva. You'd think somebody here built it

 

[peccary]

Too bad it's not in a gorva. You'd think somebody here built it

NGL I thought this was just high quality shitposting from @JamieJ until I read the first couple of posts

 

[JamieJ]

 

[Grubb]

I am boggled that this is a production product. Not knocking the circuit, but the knobs, label placement issues (wtaf are they doing here with label placement, honestly?), and LED look like my beginner projects. Yikes. Bet it sounds ace though.