Sansamp builders

[zeta55]

Hi all.
Just finished my samsamp. Must say great distortion. Made a try recording in Qbase, great result. However what I miss is a clean sound.
Is there no real clean sound to this one???

[Zero the hero]

I'm still building it.
I have no TL072 left in my stock, I think that I'll go and buy some...
During the last week there was another discussion in this forum about the sansamp, hope that this could help you.

[bwanasonic]

I have a GT2 and use it for direct recording clean tones all the time. I have heard other people mention their DIY builds don't clean up. Gotta be the chips?

Kerry M

[drew]

I have a GT-2 and actually used it to record guitar parts on a few of my songs... the jangly and slidey guitar parts here ( http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/mp3/drew-cityhall.mp3 ) and the pedal steel/ guitar here ( http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/mp3/drew-totheairplane.mp3 ) for example. So it does get clean if that's what you like. (Though to be honest, I think pedal steel sounds better through a nice amp.)

Now... it's pretty noisy, at least mine is. Anyone modded these to cut down on some of the hiss? (Definitely generated by the GT-2 itself, but I'm not sure why... all of my actual amps are much cleaner!)


drew
www.toothpastefordinner.com

[Ansil]

interesting stuff drew

[zonta]

I also heared that the built ones does not clean up totally. The original DOES however. I tried myself.

[Fp-www.Tonepad.com]

Mine does clean up. And it's the DIY version.

There's no reason why it shouldn't clean up, if the signal level doesn't overdrive the opamps, it'll be clean.

Fp

[zeta55]

Thanks for your replies.
Maybe it,s the tL072:s. Or the lack of them. I'm running mine with 4558:s.