Cap as a clipper???

[vendettav]

http://guitarheads.net/products/electronics/underdrive.html

wonder how it works...??

[ashcat_lt]

It's not a capacitor.  The page says it goes in place of the tone cap.  It's actually a pair of back-to-back diodes - most likely shotky or germanium.  Same thing as that Black Ice deally.

[newfish]

Maybe it's two diodes in a fancy-pants jacket...  

If it is, then those diodes must have a *tiny* forward voltage to work off the raw, un-amplified guitar signal.

I've seen something similar marketed as 'Black Ice' I think.

[anchovie]

It's not a capacitor, they say it goes in place of the capacitor on your tone pot.

My guess is that $7.99 gets you a pair of anti-parallel Schottky diodes in a blob of epoxy, hence their disclaimers that you need high output pickups to get an effect from it and that if you run it into a clean amp you might notice a volume difference (which will be a cut, as the guitar signal is being hard-limited).

[anchovie]

Hehe, we all jumped on it!

[vendettav]

nie info..
btw would any of you nice gentlemen be interested in helping me in another guitar related thing?  http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=92086.msg787386#new