keeley ts808 mod

[bsmcc2010]

My friend used to have a keeley modded ts9 and said it was the best overdrive pedal he's ever used. His board got stolen and with the insurance money he bought a ts808 reissue to replace the ts9. Now he wants the sound of the keeyley mod he used to have-just wondering i anyone knows what parts you would change and what for to get the sound of the keeley mod?

[PRR]

http://www.robertkeeley.com/product.php?id=31

cap from a 0.047 to a 0.1uF
increase the gain possible
resistor is dropped from a 4.7k to a 2.4k.
51k and lower it to 20k.
1uF electrolytic caps to ... 1uF metal film caps.
gold socket for the chip
upgrade the tone control circuit
.22uF Tantalum to a 0.18uF
improve parts of the fet switching
check all the factory solder joints
resistors ...are metal film
think twice before sending it off to a man that promises you very little substance.

Seems to me it is not just a "mod", that it is a complete frame-up re-build. And not too very expensive for that much fastidious hand-work. And where would we get new "mods" if people like Keeley don't get work and have to find a real job?

[ubersam]

Kinda OT: This reminds me of the time a saw a used SD-1 @ GC that looked remarkably like one of the SD-1s I modded. I asked the GC sales guy about it and he proceeded to tell me that it was a 'Keeley' modded SD-1 and that it sounds like this and like that, so on and so forth. So I asked if I could take a look at it and pop the battery compartment lid. Sure enough, it was one I had worked on. Turns out, the guy I modded the pedal for sold it to GC and told them it was 'Keeley' modded  as soon as the GC guy found out it wasn't 'Keeley' modded, his impressions of the pedal changed he did say that it was a good sounding mod but "it isn't a Keeley mod" 

[Paul Marossy]

Turns out, the guy I modded the pedal for sold it to GC and told them it was 'Keeley' modded  as soon as the GC guy found out it wasn't 'Keeley' modded, his impressions of the pedal changed he did say that it was a good sounding mod but "it isn't a Keeley mod" 

Maybe the original owner did the Keeley mods himself. Why wouldn't that sound as a good?

[analogmike]

http://www.robertkeeley.com/product.php?id=31

Seems to me it is not just a "mod", that it is a complete frame-up re-build. And not too very expensive for that much fastidious hand-work. And where would we get new "mods" if people like Keeley don't get work and have to find a real job?

somewhere Frank Clarke is rolling his eyes