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Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Thomas P. on November 16, 2003, 12:53:04 PM
I just saw the schematic and found the whole design quite interesting. Mow I'm thinking of building one and therefor ask if the sock unit is nice sounding?
I might build one anyway (since I worked hard on a PCB the last two hours :wink: ) but it would be great to hear some thoughs about it!
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Ansil on November 16, 2003, 08:56:49 PM
some people say that you have to use the same opamps described but i did a modified version witha lm324 leaving out two opamps and got a great sound.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Marcos - Munky on November 17, 2003, 12:59:19 PM
I'm building one for my guitar teacher. Didn't finished it yet, but the soundclips sound very cool.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Thomas P. on November 17, 2003, 01:06:19 PM
Quote from: Marcos - MunkyI'm building one for my guitar teacher. Didn't finished it yet, but the soundclips sound very cool.

Did you do a layout? I did and if you like to post it I'll send it to you.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Marcos - Munky on November 17, 2003, 01:37:25 PM
Hey Tom, send me the layout. I used the one from Runoffgroove (now the new layout, the old one).
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Arn C. on November 17, 2003, 02:41:03 PM
I built one  when it first came out, can't remembe the sound tho.  I did build it with two stompswitches, one for true bypass and one for "jiggle & bounce".   I will plug it in tonight again and mess with it and tell you more tomorrow how it sounds to me.
Arn C.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Ansil on November 17, 2003, 02:58:44 PM
Quote from: Arn C.I built one  when it first came out, can't remembe the sound tho.  I did build it with two stompswitches, one for true bypass and one for "jiggle & bounce".   I will plug it in tonight again and mess with it and tell you more tomorrow how it sounds to me.
Arn C.

that is the double D from runnoff groove..  we were talkin about the double drive.

www.sansamp.com


:D
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Arn C. on November 17, 2003, 03:21:33 PM
OOOps!   sorry bout' that!
Made a pedal similar to that once tho.
I made two identical jordan bosstone circuits with bmp tone controls for each and put them in a pedal.  I had a true bypass switch and a switch to toggle between each circuit.  I named one (lead) and the other(rhythm).
I only used 3 pots(but each pot had two separate pots-like car radios)
I also used dual led to tell if I was using the lead or the rhythm and a separate led for in/out.
Arn C.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Marcos - Munky on November 17, 2003, 07:36:01 PM
I was thinked about the Double D too. It's the one that I'm building.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: gtrmac on November 17, 2003, 08:11:25 PM
I'm interested in the Runoff Groove Double D also. The sound clips sound very good on his website and I'd like to do a PCB for this one but I'm just getting started with that stuff.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Gringo on November 22, 2003, 06:47:29 PM
I was looking at the schem of this baby, and i've got a couple of doubts:

http://www.axiomdrift.com/schematics/DD%20PN.gif

1. What jfets are used here?
2. Where do the diodes from the jfets gate go connected?
3. Has anyone made a pcb layout for it?

Thanks!
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: p1_ind on November 22, 2003, 09:39:50 PM
1. You could most likely use about any N channel jfet like a j201, mpf102, etc.
2. The diodes are connect to the switching circuit, when one of the inputs to the diodes on the jfets is high the other is low and vice versa so that it will switch from effect to bypass.
3. I can't help here, I haven't built one.

Good luck,
Adam
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Gringo on November 23, 2003, 09:09:12 AM
What kind of switch/switching circuit is supposed to be used?

Could you explain it a bit more 'foolproof'? :)

Thanks for your answer!
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Thomas P. on November 23, 2003, 11:38:44 AM
I think he drew the fets only to show that there is a switching circuit. It doesn't show all of it since most of us will leave it out and do 'ordinary' true bypass.
I believe it is a circuit like all Boss effects use to have.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Gringo on November 23, 2003, 02:08:14 PM
So, if i was to build it using true bypass, how should it be wired?

Removing the fets and wiring R18 to the non inverting input of the last op-amp would do the trick?

Does the output of the first op amp (marked A in the sch) need to be connected to the same point too? (the non inverting input of the last op)

I'm a little confused :oops:
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Thomas P. on November 23, 2003, 02:35:14 PM
I think you should look at those fets like they were toggle switches. Only one of the can be closed at a time. This means if the one connected to the input IC is closed the other is open and you have bypass operation. The other possibility is that it is open and the other is closed. Now you have non-bypass aka effects mode.
If you like to have true bypass your switching appears outside of the circuit. Therefor you shloudn't connect those to points because whithout a fet this would give the clean signal to the output all the time.

Maybe now it's clear :wink:
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Gringo on November 23, 2003, 03:10:29 PM
I think i got it right now :)

I should kill both fets and connect r18 to the + input of the last op amp, right?

Thanks for your help, and please correct me anyone if i'm wrong.
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Maneco on November 23, 2003, 03:19:41 PM
Hi,
looks like r18 and the last opamp can be also omited,connect the 2,2 cap to the output of the tl072 buffer,and go with millenium bypass...

best

Maneco
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Thomas P. on November 23, 2003, 03:23:50 PM
I wondered about this double buffer, too. I think you're right but I hate it to leave half an IC unused for some reason :wink:
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: J. Luja on November 23, 2003, 03:44:01 PM
try it like this
(http://www.axiomdrift.com/schematics/doubledrivesimple.gif)

-Jeremy
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Gringo on November 23, 2003, 03:44:16 PM
Wow people, thank you all for the answers, i guess i'll have to draw a pcb layout to help others as well  :D
Title: Who played a Double Drive?
Post by: Nick123 on November 24, 2003, 11:01:11 AM
I  have  built  it  and it sounded quite good.
I still haven't tried it at loud level though.
At bedroom level it sounded grainy at first, but
after some tweaking I managed to get some
really good fat low-gain sounds and good
crunchy rhythm sounds as well.
Sustain is excellent.
It seems that 100klin is better than 100klog for
TONE control because DD sounds a bit dark with
100klog for most of a pot rotation.
100klog for both DRIVE controls are a bit
too clean, but could be good for low gain sounds at
loud level.
With both DRIVE control dimed TL072 as IC2 sounds
horrible, but TLC2262 improves sound a lot.
I have found that DD sound best with
DRIVE A from 5 to 9 , DRIVE AB from 3 to 6 , TONE
from 4 to 8 and LEVEL from 4 to 7.
All pots are still 100klog but I will try 100klin
in TONE and DRIVE positions.
I will install switch for some other diode
arrangements ( 1 LED or 4 Ge diodes for example ).