Paradise Overdrive too much bass (solved)

[PKRPedals]

I built the Paradise and it has way too much low end. I turned down the bass control on the amp and turned up the treble control on the amp. I turned up the tone control on the pedal and it is still so much low end the lower notes are just muddy. That was with a humbucker guitar, I haven't tried it with single coils yet. I like the amount of overdrive if I could just get it to brighten up a bit and not mud out the low notes. Any thoughts?

 

[PKRPedals]

Update: I just went back and listened to it again. What it is doing is fuzzing on the lower strings, if that makes sense. I thought it was a tone thing but I changed the tone pot up to a 250K. That helped some, but didn't fix it. I changed the 386 to another one to see if maybe that was it, but no. I've tried different amps and speakers but still the same. Is it a cap or resistor that's doing this? Anybody else build the Paradise and have this issue or was yours great out of the box?

 

[zgrav]

looks from the circuit diagram that you could change C1 from 47n to something smaller to decrease the low end going into the circuit. you could try a 33n for starters.

 

[PKRPedals]

Thanks for the reply. I will give that a try

 

[PKRPedals]

I tried the 33n cap that was suggested in this thread but it was still way too dark. PedalPCB suggested a 4n7 cap, which I didn't have, and went with a 3n3. Wow what a difference. The pedal is exactly how I wanted it to be. My Wampler Plexi Drive Deluxe will most likely see Reverb today. Thanks for the help!

 

[zgrav]

Congratulations on customizing the build to get the sound you wanted!