MichaelW
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- Build Rating
- 5.00 star(s)
I've been sitting on this board for a while now along with it's predecessor the "Crankshaft".
I've got one build waiting for a single part and another build that isn't working right that I haven't had the gumption to start troubleshooting yet.
Today, I just needed a quick build, some bench time to gather my thoughts on a couple of work projects.
This was the perfect project. Simple build, went really quick and sounds awesome!
All discrete design, no opamp distortion that can act as an amp pusher, or standalone distortion as well.
You can get some really ragged edged sounds but with the Ge clippers on and the gain dimed it can be smoothed out as well.
I've been on a humbucker kick lately and only played with my LP, PRS and Eastman Semi-hollow but it sounded really good with all 3 guitars.
I built it stock except for the Ge diodes. Instead of D9K's I used some NOS CV7389 diodes.
The way the circuit is built the difference between the 1N60P Si and the Ge diodes is subtle, but the Si has a bit of a harder edge to them.
The other thing I did was used a On-off-On toggle instead of an On-On so I have a no clipper boost setting which relies on the 2N9304's to push.
It isn't exactly a "clean" boost. In the "no diode clipper" setting it's got a cool brash sounding gatey kind of breakup.
This is one of the few dirt pedals that to me sounds the best with the gain dimed on a clean amp.
With a dirty amp or already driven amp, the lower gain settings work really well.
Super cool pedal!
So another misadventure with my rattle can paint job. I put the gold coat down nicely and decided to shoot a gloss coat over it.
It was a nice sunny day out so I figured "put it on the back patio in the sun, it'll dry faster" right? Well, it did dry faster, too fast.
The paint didn't have a chance to self level so I have a very goofy wavy looking gloss coat....sigh.
Edit: Forgot to credit @Diynot for the On-off-on toggle mod. That came from his build report of the Special K. Thanks dude!
I've got one build waiting for a single part and another build that isn't working right that I haven't had the gumption to start troubleshooting yet.
Today, I just needed a quick build, some bench time to gather my thoughts on a couple of work projects.
This was the perfect project. Simple build, went really quick and sounds awesome!
All discrete design, no opamp distortion that can act as an amp pusher, or standalone distortion as well.
You can get some really ragged edged sounds but with the Ge clippers on and the gain dimed it can be smoothed out as well.
I've been on a humbucker kick lately and only played with my LP, PRS and Eastman Semi-hollow but it sounded really good with all 3 guitars.
I built it stock except for the Ge diodes. Instead of D9K's I used some NOS CV7389 diodes.
The way the circuit is built the difference between the 1N60P Si and the Ge diodes is subtle, but the Si has a bit of a harder edge to them.
The other thing I did was used a On-off-On toggle instead of an On-On so I have a no clipper boost setting which relies on the 2N9304's to push.
It isn't exactly a "clean" boost. In the "no diode clipper" setting it's got a cool brash sounding gatey kind of breakup.
This is one of the few dirt pedals that to me sounds the best with the gain dimed on a clean amp.
With a dirty amp or already driven amp, the lower gain settings work really well.
Super cool pedal!
So another misadventure with my rattle can paint job. I put the gold coat down nicely and decided to shoot a gloss coat over it.
It was a nice sunny day out so I figured "put it on the back patio in the sun, it'll dry faster" right? Well, it did dry faster, too fast.
The paint didn't have a chance to self level so I have a very goofy wavy looking gloss coat....sigh.
Edit: Forgot to credit @Diynot for the On-off-on toggle mod. That came from his build report of the Special K. Thanks dude!
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