MichaelW
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Seeing all the recent Pro-10 build reports motivated me to build mine out yesterday.
I'm down to my last couple of overdrive/distortion PCB's and I swear I'm swearing off of them.......(that's a lot of swearing.....
)
Seriously, I've mentioned in some other posts that I think that my "kid in the candy store" phase of building overdrives is coming to a close.
I think I've just about built every genre available and really most of them sound pretty darn good if somewhat the same.
The Pro-10 doesn't disappoint, it does pretty much what I expected it to. (Which is not a bad thing). As the ad copy claims, it's a modified ODR-1 into a modified Bluesbreaker. And that's exactly what it sounds like to me.
I appreciate the simplicity of the control layout. I did some side by side comparisons with my actual Nobels ODR-1 Mini. They have the same overall character but the Nobels has that VERY pronounced low end that is dialed out in the Pro-10 green side. So definitely very cool. As much as I like the stock ODR-1 (I've had it for many years) most of the time it's unusable for me. All that low end tends to muddy things up in a mix. I expect the Pro-10 Green side to "cut through" a lot better.
On the Blue side, I socketed the diodes just to mess around a bit. I know from experience with the many BB based circuits I've built that I like BA282 clippers in that circuit. So that's what I have in there now. But I might experiment with the original 4148's and maybe even some BAT4x's just for something a little different sounding.
This was also my first build with no build docs. I actually found that building off a BOM.txt seemed much more intuitive. Everything is sequential and I dig that.
Having said that this board has a crap ton of components and I spent a long time staring at the board trying to find where a particular part went
I used a 2N2222A for the 2N3904 because I didn't have one.
I did have some good NOS J201's (at least so far I haven't come across any bad ones) so used that on the Green side.
Oh and I'm sure someone will call out the "copulating capacitors". BOM called for a 120p. I was originally going to just use a 100p but then decided throw a 20p on top of it to get it a wee bit closer to spec.
It was a pretty dense and tight build but kudos to @PedalPCB's layouts it all made sense, fit together and the build was super smooth.
I was trying to capture a little bit of the vibe of the original pedal with the top hat knobs and Davies tone knobs. Those are the first time I've used actual Davies knobs. wow! Big difference in quality from the knock off's I've been using. Also, no one seems to have the 23mm Delta knobs, closest thing I could find was the numbered version which are the same as I used on my Dumbloid build. I still think they look pretty cool and work aesthetically.
This somehow makes me feel like I'm looking at Sim City......
I'm down to my last couple of overdrive/distortion PCB's and I swear I'm swearing off of them.......(that's a lot of swearing.....
)Seriously, I've mentioned in some other posts that I think that my "kid in the candy store" phase of building overdrives is coming to a close.
I think I've just about built every genre available and really most of them sound pretty darn good if somewhat the same.
The Pro-10 doesn't disappoint, it does pretty much what I expected it to. (Which is not a bad thing). As the ad copy claims, it's a modified ODR-1 into a modified Bluesbreaker. And that's exactly what it sounds like to me.
I appreciate the simplicity of the control layout. I did some side by side comparisons with my actual Nobels ODR-1 Mini. They have the same overall character but the Nobels has that VERY pronounced low end that is dialed out in the Pro-10 green side. So definitely very cool. As much as I like the stock ODR-1 (I've had it for many years) most of the time it's unusable for me. All that low end tends to muddy things up in a mix. I expect the Pro-10 Green side to "cut through" a lot better.
On the Blue side, I socketed the diodes just to mess around a bit. I know from experience with the many BB based circuits I've built that I like BA282 clippers in that circuit. So that's what I have in there now. But I might experiment with the original 4148's and maybe even some BAT4x's just for something a little different sounding.
This was also my first build with no build docs. I actually found that building off a BOM.txt seemed much more intuitive. Everything is sequential and I dig that.
Having said that this board has a crap ton of components and I spent a long time staring at the board trying to find where a particular part went
I used a 2N2222A for the 2N3904 because I didn't have one.
I did have some good NOS J201's (at least so far I haven't come across any bad ones) so used that on the Green side.
Oh and I'm sure someone will call out the "copulating capacitors". BOM called for a 120p. I was originally going to just use a 100p but then decided throw a 20p on top of it to get it a wee bit closer to spec.
It was a pretty dense and tight build but kudos to @PedalPCB's layouts it all made sense, fit together and the build was super smooth.
I was trying to capture a little bit of the vibe of the original pedal with the top hat knobs and Davies tone knobs. Those are the first time I've used actual Davies knobs. wow! Big difference in quality from the knock off's I've been using. Also, no one seems to have the 23mm Delta knobs, closest thing I could find was the numbered version which are the same as I used on my Dumbloid build. I still think they look pretty cool and work aesthetically.
This somehow makes me feel like I'm looking at Sim City......
