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I love the Scarab Deluxe. It sounds great at all settings, it can go from OD to Distortion to Fuzz. It’s low parts count with no rare parts.
So I did my typical 2nd build- remove controls I don’t need/change, fit it into a 1590B.
As usual when I do stripboard, I go in with a vague wiring plan and then entropy strikes.
The first attempt was a failure- I had a row of cuts that were off-by-one, and I didn’t notice until pretty far along.
And then I ran out of red so I had to change the color scheme.
The controls are VOL, BASS (called FAT on the original), and GAIN. The TONE pot is replaced with the tone 3 lead going straight to vol 3. BIAS is on a trimpot because I only ever dial it in and leave it.
At first, I wired it the way it is on tagboard effects:
But this sounded like complete dog shit. So I checked out the PPCB schematic:
I rewired the pot this way and it sounded way better.
For the finish I did paint pens and glossy modge podge baked in the oven.
So I did my typical 2nd build- remove controls I don’t need/change, fit it into a 1590B.
As usual when I do stripboard, I go in with a vague wiring plan and then entropy strikes.
The first attempt was a failure- I had a row of cuts that were off-by-one, and I didn’t notice until pretty far along.
And then I ran out of red so I had to change the color scheme.
The controls are VOL, BASS (called FAT on the original), and GAIN. The TONE pot is replaced with the tone 3 lead going straight to vol 3. BIAS is on a trimpot because I only ever dial it in and leave it.
At first, I wired it the way it is on tagboard effects:
But this sounded like complete dog shit. So I checked out the PPCB schematic:
I rewired the pot this way and it sounded way better.
For the finish I did paint pens and glossy modge podge baked in the oven.
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