OD is Glorious
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I played this through my Vibroverb and Super Reverb. It is a sensational circuit. It can get great (useable) lows, highs and mids. It can get incredibly transparent it and provide very clean boost. Dial up the gain and the circuit will summon the murder wasps. It also has excess headroom and I like that. I think this circuit is top three for overdrives I have built so far. I just sent my producer friend the Nobels I built and he loves it, but I think I will have to send him this circuit.
I followed the build documents exactly. There are a few odd values but I have them all. The board itself is not laid out well. The ECs are not laid out intuitively. The J201s are a tight fit. You need 1/8th watt resisters. But thankfully it all fits! I had one unforced error, I put a 2N3904 in Q6 where a 2N3906 is called for. If you were wondering the polarities are different so the biasing is not the same- on the PPCB platform the circuit had some sound below unity and the tone knob was useless. So I popped a 3906 in there and I immediately saw that this was a great circuit.
For the enclosure I painted it cobalt blue - applied labels and then I used acetone and sandpaper to rat-rod it. This way the blue is under, over and around the labels. I used to build small motorcycles: Honda Z50s... there were guys who rat-rodded them. They basically relic the minibike. So this is my attempt at something similar with the finish. I put several coats of gloss clear over everything. I used Switchcraft jacks, Lumberg D.C., blue knobs, and blue 5mm LED.
Pedal number 75.
I followed the build documents exactly. There are a few odd values but I have them all. The board itself is not laid out well. The ECs are not laid out intuitively. The J201s are a tight fit. You need 1/8th watt resisters. But thankfully it all fits! I had one unforced error, I put a 2N3904 in Q6 where a 2N3906 is called for. If you were wondering the polarities are different so the biasing is not the same- on the PPCB platform the circuit had some sound below unity and the tone knob was useless. So I popped a 3906 in there and I immediately saw that this was a great circuit.
For the enclosure I painted it cobalt blue - applied labels and then I used acetone and sandpaper to rat-rod it. This way the blue is under, over and around the labels. I used to build small motorcycles: Honda Z50s... there were guys who rat-rodded them. They basically relic the minibike. So this is my attempt at something similar with the finish. I put several coats of gloss clear over everything. I used Switchcraft jacks, Lumberg D.C., blue knobs, and blue 5mm LED.
Pedal number 75.
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