Transistor only overdrives

[Morbidpale]

I recently built a hudson broadcast and love it. I'm looking to find other transistor only drives to try. No opamps wanted. The only other one i can think of off the top of my head is the smallsound/bigsound mini. Of course that one is jfet versus the broadcasts bjt's. Any suggestions?

 

[Vicious C]

Chop Shop, tons of positive reviews on that one.

 

[CheapSuitG]

Chop Shop, tons of positive reviews on that one.

Just built a chop shop, really like it a lot.

Following for more recommendations.

 

[phi1]

I made a Runoffgroove supereux deux a while back and liked it a lot.

 

[Morbidpale]

I totally forgot about the chop shop. Great pedal. A little low gain but perhaps I could mod it to taste...

 

[PedalBuilder]

Dylan159 over at Free Stompboxes put together three interesting all transistor overdrive circuits.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

The benson preamp and pretty much any of the Catalinbread foundation drives should fit the bill.

 

[HamishR]

A lot of the Skreddy stuff is all transistor. Menatone too. How much is available on PCB for builders I don't know, but Skreddy's Hybrid Overdrive is a cracker. The Lunar Module is technically a fuzz I guess but can be used as an overdrive, and is very similar to the excellent Screwdriver.

 

[Vicious C]

I totally forgot about the chop shop. Great pedal. A little low gain but perhaps I could mod it to taste...

You could mod it, or run the JFEts at a higher voltage. If you want high gain the M800 is pretty sweet as well

 

[Robert]

The Distortron is one of my favorites.

 

[lrgaraujo]

You'll find a few of transistor based ODs on Chuck's Boneyard section of the forum.

This one is my favorite: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/...eak-overdrive-with-some-mods-of-course.13466/

 

[Morbidpale]

Thanks folks, lots to look into now.

 

[spi]

another vote for chop shop, but also add golden falk