DEMO [Vero] EQD Acapulco Gold (El Sol Distortion)

[owlexifry]

a few weeks ago i had a squizz at this circuit on the breadboard, and was immediately enjoying the thick crunchy blown out saturated drive that comes from this thing. it's sick. [ grab an El Sol Distortion if you haven't already]

i was yet to do a single knob build, this circuit was satisfying enough, so i went ahead and ordered a 1590B metallic dark gold from tayda.

easy cute little layout and only 2 resistors is kinda hilarious.


the 'metallic dark gold' appearance varies quite a lot under different lighting


in today’s demo i am using the pickup volume knobs for the first time ever. (with exception to the Brian May ‘Deacy’ amp)
- starts off with both volumes at 3 for a little less saturation, and then it’s full volumes for most of it.
+/- boosting from a V7 russian big muff (makes it even thicker, nice and scoopy, and infinite sustain)

 

[lowpitch]

That's a thicc boi. I like it.

 

[owlexifry]

That's a thicc boi. I like it.

sure is thicc.
it’d be sad if it wasn’t, being a supposed impression of a cranked sunn model t and all

 

[CheapSuitG]

This was my first pedal that I completed. Fun build, demo sounds great!

 

[owlexifry]

This was my first pedal that I completed. Fun build, demo sounds great!

ayy cheers must have missed your comment (was on annual leave last week)

definitely a fun build, would be an awesome candidate for a PTP build, but sadly there's no metal can version of an LM386.

i've also noticed with this thing that while it can be nicely boosted by other drives/fuzzes (however redundant this can get), it always sounds like shit / gated when running into anything other than an amp.. (i.e. needs to be at the end of the chain)