Starting an overdrive shootout

On a similar vein I've been trying to do more consolidation of the ones I do have.
I'm keeping
Promethium
Sherwood
Kliche (I love kliche into Sherwood)
Duocast
Ungula

Ive made a few other dirt boxes, I found I can get the cobalt drive out of the high gain duocast on 18v, the duocast on high gain and 9v will do son of Ben, the kliche works fine as how I was using the uberdrive, duocast on low gain is fine instead of amentum boost, and promethium sounds close enough to me than a rat circuit.
I'm thinking of retrying the chop shop since everyone raves about it but I didn't feel that strongly about it before.
 
I just gave my kilche away over the weekend. I did try the low gain thing with it. I built the chop shop recently. I liked it with the tone switch in the middle or at the bottom, with enough gain to get a bit of dirt when digging in.

The red snapper is nice for the low gain stuff. Also, the the Corridor with the guitar volume dialed back.
 
Noodles said:
I built both Chop Shop versions. I don't find the original too bright. I do find V2 too dark in both alternative positions. But, I usually turn the tone knobs on a Strat down a bit so...

I really like the Son of Ben. When I was biasing it, I found two methods. One made it cleaner and punchier than the "proper" method. I keep meaning to go back and try to figure out what I did as I find the "proper" method a bit to wooly at times. I think it sounded better the "wrong" way.
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Yes, like I said the original is fine if you turn the tone knob down, I'd just prefer not to have to do that since most pedals I use work fine with the tone knob at full. I guess it's more just the decision the designer made, if they want to tune it so that it works with the tone knob full or not (for example, obviously strats are usually on the brighter end of guitars and so on and so on).

I don't think there's necessarily a "proper" way to tune the JFET's in a pedal like that. Half the supply voltage is a starting point, but we're not aiming for the most pristine sound possible - we're aiming for the one that sounds best to us. So the "proper" way to bias a drive pedal is to set it so that it sounds the best overall, or best to you personally.
 
Fama said:
Yes, like I said the original is fine if you turn the tone knob down, I'd just prefer not to have to do that since most pedals I use work fine with the tone knob at full.
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Yep, I get it. My point was more that, *for me*, the tone switch made the pedal too dark in both positions. I hope it works well for you (although, I can't see the darker of the two positions working for anyone :)...blech).
 
Einzeln said:
And what is that not proper way?
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🤷‍♂️ - I can't even remember the score in a pickleball game *during* the game! That was over a year ago!!

OK....I think I did post #8, and then did post #23 after more reading. I vaguely recall the voltages after the post #8 were more around 5V.
 
Noodles said:
🤷‍♂️ - I can't even remember the score in a pickleball game *during* the game! That was over a year ago!!

OK....I think I did post #8, and then did post #23 after more reading. I vaguely recall the voltages after the post #8 were more around 5V.
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Oops....for reference (1st has the posts I note....2nd is also interesting).

Jovi Bon Kenobi

Thread 'Trimpot Adjustment - Son of Ben'

The build doc says
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Is there a way to test trim 1 without removing is from the enclosure?
For Q2&3, is it the same as when biasing a fuzz face? One probe to ground and the other on the drain?

Thanks!

*Edit for future forum searchers* "son of ben" isn't searchable because the words are too long, short, or common. Ha. Here ya go..."Benson preamp"
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Thread 'Biasing a Benson Preamp'

Hey everyone,

I'm about to attempt to build a Benson Preamp with veroboard using SMD J201s.

Their docs call for the builder to bias it as per PedalPCB instructions. However I notice that the veroboard was designed and uploaded months before PedalPCB released a new revision.

I guess my question is for someone who can look at the veroboard and determine whether the revision means that I'd need to bias the pedal as per the old version of PedalPCB instructions, or was the revision not to the schematic, but rather to the layout of the PCB?

Veroboard...
 
The Mach 1 has been on my board since I built it over a year ago, but recently it's been kicked off in favor of a Blue Breaker, then a Paragon. I jumped around for a second more gainy overdrive before finally landing on a Resinite Overdrive, but the Cobalt Drive is good too. Both are discrete transistor based. The Angry Andy Plus is great as well for that heavier high voltage sound, but the Resinite does it so perfectly
 
Noodles said:
... I can't see the darker of the two positions working for anyone :)...blech).
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