Mojito: It’s better than the hype!

[Chuck D. Bones]

radio741 on eBay is where I got mine. From Greece though and ended up being about €1 each.

Good supplier! You can spend all day going thru his inventory and still not see it all. I bought a bunch and amortized the shipping cost.

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Is this at all similar to the Viceroy?

Not really. Two very different circuits. Viceroy is all JFETs and emulates the Orange amplifier preamp. Lotta clean gain there if you want it. Or it does that FET overdrive thing very nicely. You can run it on 18V for more headroom.

Mojito is a combination of JFETs and opamp / diode overdrive. Thicker sound. Doesn't really play totally clean. Higher voltage won't increase the headroom.

Each one has a large tonal range and each does something the other doesn't. Either one can drive the Bejesus out of a tube amp if you wanna. Try 'em both, I think you'll like 'em.

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Nice build, Dan. Great graphics. Glad you like it.