Ive found my DIY sound!

[guitarmonky55]

So after many DIY builds and alot of good but not what i was looking for sounds, i found my keeper in an unlikely place.  I threw together a sili-face II from ROG the other night.  After bashing my head against it for several hours, and then realizing i had flipped the negative and positive leads from the DC socket, i fired it up to great delight.  I used 2n5088's and a few other odd part subs because i didnt have the exact values.  Its not so much of a fuzz as a dirty boost, but a good one it is.  im not terribly intrigued by its sound on a clean channel, but in front of the distortion channel of my Carvin MTS I get the most perfect, smooth steve vai-ish tone that is clean and distorted at the same time.  its positively beautiful! of all of my builds, this one definitely will stay on my pedalboard!

[Dragonfly]

So after many DIY builds and alot of good but not what i was looking for sounds, i found my keeper in an unlikely place.  I threw together a sili-face II from ROG the other night.  After bashing my head against it for several hours, and then realizing i had flipped the negative and positive leads from the DC socket, i fired it up to great delight.  I used 2n5088's and a few other odd part subs because i didnt have the exact values.  Its not so much of a fuzz as a dirty boost, but a good one it is.  im not terribly intrigued by its sound on a clean channel, but in front of the distortion channel of my Carvin MTS I get the most perfect, smooth steve vai-ish tone that is clean and distorted at the same time.  its positively beautiful! of all of my builds, this one definitely will stay on my pedalboard!

gotta love it when things work out !

[tcobretti]

Magic happens when the different components of your rig work together.  I also recently built a Si FF that I freaking love.  It's funny, cause I'd been playing with it for a couple of months, but I just stumbled on a combination that is great.  However, mine is not an overdrive; it is fuzz-o-rama.

[MartyMart]

I just got a similar result from Mac's "Faim Fuzz" , the sample in the post was recorded through a
behringer DI with cab sim, but through my amp, it was driving the front a lot more and sounds
incredible !
Just a "lucky" match

MM.