Night Train Overdrive

[free electron]

Hi!
Here's my development of the Arsenio Novos "Tube Sound Overdrive", a pair of NPN and PNP transistors that produce very nice overdrive sound, very responsive to picking. I was really impressed by this little circuit.
Project homepage
There's a pdf file with description, schem and pcb project.
Sound samples are recorded with PandoraPX4D as speaker simulator.
I like the idea of fixed 3 band tone stack to shape the sound a little bit. But of course it can be omitted, then the gain recovery stage will not be needed, it could be used as output buffer by taking out the R17,R18,C12,C13 and connecting the opamp out with its negative input. The PCB fits into a typical 1590B box.

Piotr

[MartyMart]

Nice project file and it sound very good too !
Thanks,
Marty.

[slacker]

Very nice professional looking project. Great sound samples as well, nice work.

[free electron]

Due to requests i updated the file with schems of two simpler versions of the pedal.
Piotr.

[MR COFFEE]

Nice work and sound clips. Nice tight pcb layout.

Thanks for sharing

[mnordbye]

Thanks for sharing this, good for many musical genres!

And i hear someone like King Diamond too.. 

Magnus N