Modding the Vintage Distortion into Colorsound Tone Jumbo, possible?

[dc1508]

Hi guys,

So I got this Vintage Distortion pedal and been wanting to mod it into a Jumbo Tonebender, I'm a total noob so first time trying to mod things out.

Afaik the mod is just removing the D4, D3 and C6 and the whole Traditional BMP gain recovery transistor stage includes Q1, R4, R3. So my question is, after desoldering, do you have to jump wires or something else on the board or just leave it and it'll work on its own?

Thank you so much, hopefully I get some tips on my first time!

These are the 2 schematics side by side, I know the tone circuit wouldn't be the same but I've been wanting to try out the Bender for a while, think this would be great first time mod platform.

 

[HamishR]

It's generally pretty self-explanatory. D3, D4 and C6? just leave them off. There is no connection to complete the circuit required, so no jumpers or anything are needed. At the end leave out R3, R4, R6, R7, Q1 and C2. the only jumper you'll need is to connect C3 to Volume 3. C3 needs to connect Tone 2 to Volume 3, and that's it. How you do that is up to you - Just make sure you don't inadvertently interfere with any other components, don't overheat anything when removing parts and use some quality desoldering braid to remove any unnecessary solder. Go slowly and keep everything clean.