This Week on the Breadboard: Gator's OD - cb mod
- Thread starter Chuck D. Bones
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Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
I might fiddle a capacitor value or two, but other than that, it's finished.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
A minor update. Added R12 and rewired the PRESENCE pot. Ref des updated.
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The Gator
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At the risk of sounding like a complete suck ass...
You are awesome Dave!!!
Thank you for taking interest in my original moded circuit and taking it to a new level!
The thing I noticed about overdrives and distortions is that high gain circuits tend to sound like crap at low gain settings. Low gain circuits usually only do just that, and usually only soft clipping.
Being able to blend and go from super light to heavy gain is fun and useful for several genres of music. All in one circuit. Now, with plenty of tone shaping on tap!
I'm going to breadboard it this weekend. I just started playing with a group of old friends so I might just take it to band practice as a breadboard...lol
Thank you!
~Gator
You are awesome Dave!!!
Thank you for taking interest in my original moded circuit and taking it to a new level!
The thing I noticed about overdrives and distortions is that high gain circuits tend to sound like crap at low gain settings. Low gain circuits usually only do just that, and usually only soft clipping.
Being able to blend and go from super light to heavy gain is fun and useful for several genres of music. All in one circuit. Now, with plenty of tone shaping on tap!
I'm going to breadboard it this weekend. I just started playing with a group of old friends so I might just take it to band practice as a breadboard...lol
Thank you!
~Gator
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Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
Schematic has been corrected. 
Feral Feline
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CDB, I noticed the last two iterations of the schematic were both labeled "Gator OD cb mod v3.0.png"
Maybe the one with rewired presence pot in Post #23 can be v3.1?
The Gator, I like the idea of going 1590BB2 — then you can add one more knob* and stomper to make it a combo pedal.
*One-knob boost/Fuzz/Phaser/whatever
Cool stuff, I've put all this info in my Boneyard folder, so as not to be confused with the PAIA Gator in the PAIA folder.
Maybe the one with rewired presence pot in Post #23 can be v3.1?
The Gator, I like the idea of going 1590BB2 — then you can add one more knob* and stomper to make it a combo pedal.
*One-knob boost/Fuzz/Phaser/whatever
Cool stuff, I've put all this info in my Boneyard folder, so as not to be confused with the PAIA Gator in the PAIA folder.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
It's such a minor change that I chose to not roll the rev #. It was a judgement call.
