Bass distortion schematic

[vanessa]

I put this out there a while back and got a lot of help from a lot of great people on the site. This was confirmed by several DIY top dogs here to be a good schematic and would work great. I have yet to have the time to make a PCB for it. It's the ROG Splitter-Blend meets Bass Paralooper. You can build in any effects you want and the circuit does not have to be modified (impedance etc), or you could use it with jacks and plug in one effect into the chain or two and mix them. It has a phase switch and a low pass filter. Simple with a low part count.

[Meanderthal]

 Thank you! That looks like it has a lot of potential... I noticed the variable passive lowpass- pretty much the same as moving your tone knob onto the pedal. Interesting! I could change c5 to .1uf and have the same severe cutoff freq I'm thinking of... but would there be enough volume left... I think I'm gonna test this. I'm going to replace the tone cap in an old bass with .1uf and see how much of a volume drop I get with the tone knob turned all the way down... tomarrow.

[vanessa]

Yeah it's called the Super-Duper-Looper...

[Meanderthal]

 Ugh. I tried the cap change in a crappy old p-bass copy. It's not the same as a hog's foot. The volume drop wasn't all that bad, but the sound just wouldn't shake my guts, even with a clean boost. Just a dull, lifeless lack of tone. Maybe the Hog's Foot is slightly resonant around 100 hz or so?  I don't know, but it really seems to add something...
I guess I'm going to hafta actually build the injector to test it... but not til I come back from vacation. Don't wanna start something and leave it unfinished, only to forget where I was when I get back...
When (not if, I NEED this thing) I get it done I'll post a followup, but this won't be for a few weeks. Bad time for vacation, but that's the cards I've been dealt.