DEMO The Samurai (Doxie Pre Amp)

[steviejr92]

I'am interested in buying one pcb for Doxie, Cobbler and Bobby, but there still no build documentation available. I prefer to build them knowing the schematics of what I will build so that if I f'd up, it will be easier to troubleshoot because I have schematics as a map.

My question is, if ever I order a pcb that doesn't have available build doc, should I expect that they will send me a hard copy or a link where I can see the schematics?

I believe there is a Missing Schematics/Build Doc thread here. If you check up regularly it might pop up. Or you can ask @Robert he might have one ready already. Im going to be honest though this build is very easy and all the Values are screen printed on there. I can take a pic of my hand written BOM. It lead me to success

 

[steviejr92]

Here you go!
EDIT: I should mention all those 1uF caps are Film

 

[steviejr92]

Just showcasing the effect. So my 2nd impressions on this are it doesn’t get as gainy as I thought it did maybe because I had boost in front of it last time

 

[steviejr92]

UPDATE: So I just cranked the vol on my guitar and theres the gain i was originally talking about! Its there you just have to push it a bit!

 

[Feral Feline]

GREAT pedal and build report.


About Samurais being respected in all all cultures...

I'd say it's a bit divided in Car Culture, my friend had a Suzuki Samurai, pale-piss yellow/rust, but it sure was fun and he off-roaded it and kept up with the big-trucks no problem.

 

[steviejr92]

GREAT pedal and build report.


About Samurais being respected in all all cultures...

I'd say it's a bit divided in Car Culture, my friend had a Suzuki Samurai, pale-piss yellow/rust, but it sure was fun and he off-roaded it and kept up with the big-trucks no problem.

I completely forgot about that little thing! Off roading in that? Those must’ve been some fun days! My dad had only a 4 cylinder Jeep but that thing surprisingly kept up with everything in the trails! It’s not about what you got it’s all about how you navigate

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Another clean build

 

[steviejr92]

Another clean build
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Thank you sir! Stay tuned I have another this week coming up

 

[Andrion]

thank you very much for this report!

I'm really considering building this;

The main reason is that some pedals, although are sold as "preamps", were not meant to be used straight into a power amp/cabinet; (for example: Friedman ones, Victory V1, Abasi Pathos, etc); I think they just don't sound as good as in front of a clean amp, and all of them are only demoed this way by the manufacturers;

So this Doxie Preamp (besides being of the Victory V1 "preamps"/drive pedals) seems to be a great platform to receive/stack with dirty pedals (Dirty Sanchez in my case) and send them direct into power-amp emulation + Impulse Response

So I intent to keep it after my distortions, and when using the pedalboard in front of an amp, use this preamp as a really fancy solo boost with full EQ instead of an 1 knob boost

 

[steviejr92]

So I intent to keep it after my distortions, and when using the pedalboard in front of an amp, use this preamp as a really fancy solo boost with full EQ instead of an 1 knob boost

So this is how ive seen it used on Andertons Youtube channel when they were demoing it. I completely agree using as a boost is the way to go! I say go for it! I think your going to really love this pedal! I need to get a pedal board to make this a permanent pedal for me!