My own DIY tubeoverdrive

[Dirk_Hendrik]

awesome!

ps: what's that "jamaican" resistor in the middle of pic#4 ?

Just another brand than the others.


On selling,
I've been thinking about it. Right now the total component cost is some 75 dollars. This will decrease when buying components in larger quantities. Apart from that the total building time was some 6 hours of work. In order to make some money on these either the price will be pretty high or I need to decrease building time. That is possible when building multiple at the same time. As said, I've been thinking about it.

[Dirk_Hendrik]

Hi Dirk Hendrik,
Nice work,looks great!
Are you the DH from gitaarnet?
Greetings,Ed

Same guy :wink:

[GreenEye]

I've said it before that my fave distortion/OD is my Ibanez Tube King.  Therefore, I want to try a tube pedal once I get the basics down.  My fear was of the "high voltage" warnings that I'd fry myself - but you said yours is low voltage!?!  So does that mean a yahoo like me could attempt a similar design without killing myself?  It looks time consuming, but worth it!

[Dirk_Hendrik]

Although ofcourse all at own risk, I'd respect you if you manage to kill yourself with 12 volts AC. That takes quite some effort :wink:

[donald stringer]

Very nice build, I have a tk999 that I remounted in another box. I found that my displeasure with the sound was mainly with the values of the tone caps. While I didnt really change out any values, I did hack into certain portions of the tone circuit and added some things to help get some variety. Also there was some noise issues with the stock circuit ,this was originating from the second op-amp[ I am calling the second op-amp as if you were looking at the bottom of the stock board and it is the top left. This is also where the in and out of the tone circuit starts and ends. I traced enough of the circuit to get a drawing of it. You may already know this but in the first 999 produced they had a mod. done to eliminate the hiss but there were patent infringments or something like that and they had to go back and rearrange things a little. I have heard both and the original sounds better with the noise mod. Seeing your build inspires me to go back into mine and try some different op-amps. They at least supplyed the revisions of this pedal with sockets for the op-amps. I am going to try all5532 in place of the tlo72. Which by the way the choice of op-amps you use have a lot to do with the sound of this pedal. Keep us posted on sounds and mods.

[troubledtom]

awesome!

ps: what's that "jamaican" resistor in the middle of pic#4 ?

Just another brand than the others.


On selling,
I've been thinking about it. Right now the total component cost is some 75 dollars. This will decrease when buying components in larger quantities. Apart from that the total building time was some 6 hours of work. In order to make some money on these either the price will be pretty high or I need to decrease building time. That is possible when building multiple at the same time. As said, I've been thinking about it.

you can do thet in 6 hr's? you must be a god :twisted:
    very nice,
           -tt

[markusw]

wow. it´s really impressive! what kind of pots did you use?

Markus