Mentaltossflycoon
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I've been fiddling with this circuit off and on for over a year. I built the topographer pre (sounds great together) a while back so it felt necessary to try the percolator with it. I socketed both transistors and the diodes so there was much swapping. Having started mostly with parts I had on hand, it felt really boring of me when I recently bought the legitimate bits and I much preferred the stock percolator. It has stayed this way for over a month and I've been playing with it quite a bit so I figured I should box it up.
I don't have much use for it on bass but man do I enjoy it with my tele. There's nothing over the top about it but the pokey nature of the distortion and the interaction with the volume pot are fantastic. I have a Charlie Christian neck pickup which is at times too fat and warm sounding but backing off the instrument volume really brings the treble back without fully cleaning up like a FF. I actually tried putting this in parallel with a FF type circuit for a minute. Turning the volume down gave both the clean up along with those sparkly highs. It was pretty interesting and I almost housed it that way but ended up choosing simplicity instead.
I don't have much use for it on bass but man do I enjoy it with my tele. There's nothing over the top about it but the pokey nature of the distortion and the interaction with the volume pot are fantastic. I have a Charlie Christian neck pickup which is at times too fat and warm sounding but backing off the instrument volume really brings the treble back without fully cleaning up like a FF. I actually tried putting this in parallel with a FF type circuit for a minute. Turning the volume down gave both the clean up along with those sparkly highs. It was pretty interesting and I almost housed it that way but ended up choosing simplicity instead.
