Boogeyman - how does it sound?

[Victor]

Hey guys,

I've recently built Dr. Boogie, using 4thlevelmedia layout. Sounds great, but sometimes it's a little too much distortion for me. I searched around here and found nothing interesting about Boogeyman. Did someone build it? And how does it sound? I was looking for a sound just like Dr. Boogie, but with less distortion and maintaining that beautiful built-in compression that retains at high gain, something like Andy Timmons in his newest album. Or maybe a new modification for Dr. Boogie, to sound like that and keep the compression? Thanks in advance. 

[John Lyons]

Haven't built the Boogeyman but I have some thoughts on the Dr boogey.

You can lower the gain by changing to a 500K gain pot and using a MPF102 or even 2N5457 in the first stage or others.
One thing that is constant is that the 3rd stage is a "cold clipper" and a lot of the crunch tone seems to come from there even at low gain. settings. Even if the gain is low, the tone and crunch dymamics remain about the same. I'm not sure I would call the Dr boogey a compressed sound at all. It is very even, tight and articulate with string balance (each note coming through clear). Fets don't seems to compress much as far as I've used them.
Most other distortions using transistors do compress a bit or sometimes a lot.

I'm interested to try the boogeyman, or at least hear some impressions of it.

John

[MartyMart]

The Boogeyman is quite different, having the eq section "pre-gain" and that
odd output volume pot before the final filter section ?
I have not built one, but it looks interesting

MM.