Building the Trotsky drive with some mods!

[deank3089]

hey everyone brand new to the forum, currently building the trotsky drive with a few things added to it.  Just breadboarded the circuit directly from beavis audio, http://beavisaudio.com/bboard/projects/bbp_Trotsky.pdf and it sounds great only thing is i have my amp fairly high and the volume is all the way up on the pedal and I'm still getting not that much volume from it was wondering if there is anything i could do about this?  Thank you for your help whoever responds to this and any input would be appreciated thank you. 

[Brisance]

The clipper diodes will limit the maximum volume, no matter how much you pump into them. What I would do is add another makeup gain stage, such as the one before the diodes.

[deank3089]

a gain stage after the diode section?

[Brisance]

Exactly. maybe one like the one before it, or an op-amp or a (MOS)FET one, this is a place to be creative

[samhay]

The transistor has plenty of gain. Perhaps try putting mutliple diodes in series and/or using silicon diodes.

[bool]

Just try rectifiers. 1N4007 and 1N5819+150-ish ohm resistor (in series).

Should be loud and proud enough. ymmv

[deank3089]

thanx for the help guys, got it sounding the way i want added a couple mods to it, what switch would I use to change between two different diode values? (DPDT, SPST, etc..) and if someone knows how to wire from the breadboard link i posted still trying to figure it out, thank you again for all the help.