Cheapest Diode Clipper

[T-Man]

I'm looking for the cheapest diode clipper available.  Feedback or shunt.  I want to change the caps to make it a decent bass overdrive.

Thanks all!
T-Man

[petemoore]

That'd be the one with no box, no switch no jacks...you can make them, well not the switch.
 Other than that, the price of the 'better' OA, and caps is nominal in comparison.
 Get your parts out of an old item, and re-use them..Did you say cheep or crummy
 Someone posted an answer to the question "What do you like to have in a Stompbox?": "Reliability...anything else" oh yes it was RG typed that..

[Transmogrifox]

go buy and old Rogue, or maybe a Rocktek $20 pedal and toy with it.  I remember seeing those advertised in Musicians Enemy for a low price.

This brings up the question, did you mean cheapest to buy (for modding), or cheapest to build?

if you build one with no tone control, gain or volume (just hard wired), you could just build the TS-9 clipping stage with a filter cap after it (the one in series with the 220 res) and just stick it inside the back of your bass with a DPDT switch(unless you have a real nice bass that you don't want to fool with).

[Jason Stout]

http://www.diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/viewtopic.php?t=25660&highlight=black+ice

[petemoore]

Hey My Money's on Jason.

[T-Man]

Sorry, my original post was not clear at all... I meant buying a commercial box to mod. I just want to neutralize any sort of built in eqing and just get the clipping.

[petemoore]

Get any good built used one. I got a DS=1 for 10. Iknow has tone, but could be set or bypassed and you get a consolation pot.
 Get one with a DPDT switch, metal box and jacks, and you can always put whatever and as many circuit[s you can fit in it. Jacks in PCB's of any type should be avoided, if you're going to change the circuit you don't want Jfet bypass switching.