CONTEST Tube Screaming Tuesdays

[Dan0h]

My fave YATs build is hands down the free the tone clone. Does everything the 808 does but Keeps in the lows. Hehehe.

Speaking of Houston, I spent almost five years there, for work, and ironically was there during Hurricane Ike in 2008. I had won a cruise contest and the ship was literally setting sail out of Galveston the morning before Ike was barreling into Galveston. Because the port was so damaged we ended up being dropped off in New Orleans a week later and had to rent a car back. Got back to no power for 28 days. Won’t even talk about the “cruise” sufficient to say no amount of money given would be enough to get me back on a cruise ship again. the entire gulf was monster swells.

 

[readingaregood]

Random, this was on my bench when this thread started. Plain ol' screamer with AMZ mods, C3 bass boost on a switch and warp control for asymmetrical clipping. I'm experimenting with mod podge for finishing, and will be adding a more layers to get rid of the streaky glue look. Missed having a TS on my board!

 

[spi]

Is a Red Snapper close enough to be considered YATS?

 

[fig]

So many questions here.. What is YATS? How'd you solder those SMDs? What did you use for the straight wire? Beautiful looking pedal!

I'm going to post my first "Tube Screamer" build.. the BYOC version of the OD-1 (the godfather of tube screamers according to the internet) on a breadboard:

Nothing like the smell of fresh breadboard! Nice!

[Y]et [A]nother [T]ube [Screamer (so I'm told)

I use a flux pen, and either a syringe alone or a tube of low-temp solder paste with a stencil. Then I place the components and shove it in my EZ-bake reflow oven and press start. Seven.5 minutes later, if they don't fall off when you flip it, yer good-to-go.

The wire used is bus wire. I get mine over at Amplified Parts. The trick is to unwind a length, insert one end into a drill chuck and hold the other tight with pliers. Give the drill a few pulses while "stretching" the wire. You'll be amazed. I was, when @Mcknib turned me onto it.

Thank you!

 

[Flying]

Just because it’s not green doesn’t make not a tube screamer, it’s got three knobs a switch and an LED, so in my book it's got to be a tube screamer... it even has a bit of a mid hump, or is it transparent?



I'm sure I read on the internet that it’s just a type of tubescreamer under the goop

 

[Laundryroom David]

This thread has inspired me to build a stripboard YATS-ish guitar signal degrading implement. Huzzah!

 

[Redspacecadet74]

Here’s my “Super Screamer” built using the Cirrus Dynamic Overdrive PCB by Aion FX, which is a clone of the Ibanez ST-9 Super Tube Screamer.

The design is a mash up of Ghostface from the Scream movies and the Scream painting by Edvard Munch, drawn using Posca paint pens.

 

[fig]

Whoops, wrong thread

 

[Synchrony Pedalworks]

Here’s my “Super Screamer” built using the Cirrus Dynamic Overdrive PCB by Aion FX, which is a clone of the Ibanez ST-9 Super Tube Screamer.

The design is a mash up of Ghostface from the Scream movies and the Scream painting by Edvard Munch, drawn using Posca paint pens.

Nice. I like the design. Creative.

 

[xefned]

Happy TS Tuesday!
This is an older build. I'm proud to say I can't post a new picture because my guitarist loved it so much, he took it for his pedalboard. He's not the first guitarist I've loaned it to, who liked it better than the Zendrive or the stock tubescreamer.

I'm planning to build him a proper one for xmas, in a proper 125b, without a hole that's covered up by a sticker, leaving the bass boost switch properly inside the box.

 

[jimilee]

I built this one about three times. When I was on Facebook, I would post photos just to show them. Everyone I did, someone wanted to buy it. I finally quit posting it. I have a Klon I built three of as well, same deal.

 

[fig]

Another week of tantalizing tube screamers! Nice stuff indeed. This week's tubular prize goes to @owlexifry . With all that screaming, you'll need a throat lozenge! Congrats!

Keep 'em coming!


Now go build something!

 

[G.G.]

More Screamer-adjacent content! The 808 is a Hudson Sidecar and Nucleon's Son Of Screamer that includes a focus control like a Zen Drive. Also features the Cludge of the Month: 2 chunks of hot melt glue stick to keep the Sidecar board away from the cable tip. I used a generic OC44-type PNP from a failed attempt at a Rangemaster for the Sidecar which is held in place with a nice comfy piece of foam. Also, zip ties!!

 

[Cybercow]

YATS content for next Tuesday's (Nov 15, 2022) entry queue . . . . the "Green Meanie" . . . .
(Most expensive TS I've ever built.)



Green Meanie gutshot . . . .


THe 6-way clipping daughterboard with an LM313H Reference dual-diode, a pair of MA856/1S1588 diodes, 3mm dual-2-pin LED (R&G), 5mm dual-2-pin LED (G&B), Nanolog N2 and a Nanolog N3.

 

[jimilee]

This thread has inspired me to build a stripboard YATS-ish guitar signal degrading implement. Huzzah!

I like the sabrotone layout for that.

 

[Laundryroom David]

I like the sabrotone layout for that.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[owlexifry]

Another week of tantalizing tube screamers! Nice stuff indeed. This week's tubular prize goes to @owlexifry . With all that screaming, you'll need a throat lozenge! Congrats!

Keep 'em coming!


Now go build something!

wow, what a surprise to wake up to!

so many beautiful and brilliantly executed builds here - can't believe my silly little tin did so favourably

many thanks @fig for putting up this contest.

I like the sabrotone layout for that.

ayy that's what i used for my TS build. most compact i could find

 

[jimilee]

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wow, what a surprise to wake up to!

so many beautiful and brilliantly executed builds here - can't believe my silly little tin did so favourably

many thanks @fig for putting up this contest.


ayy that's what i used for my TS build. most compact i could find

Yep, me too.

 

[EGRENIER]

Ok so time for my second TS submission…

This one is another classic TS808 and this time the build was for me… the graphic all started with a picture I found:



From that, I decided to take a shot at hand drawing my own version of it which gave me this:




After a bit of soldering, some drilling and a water slide of the artwork I ended up with this:

 

[phi1]

Here’s my little contribution. It’s a Son of Screamer style (deleTe the NPN input / output buffers). The bass toggle switches in some additional RC combinations in the typical place (first op amp stage 47nF and 4.7k area). The clean knob is actually a pot in series with the clipping diodes to give more headroom. It works kinda like a clean blend (clipping wise) and I like it better than an actual parallel dry signal blend I tried. It doesn’t restore the flat eq that a dry blend would though. Made on vero, I don’t have a gut shot handy.