"Le Craquement Thermionique" !!

[frequencycentral]

can you drop that triode in to replace a tranny? (with re-biasing, of course!)

I don't understand the question.......

[phector2004]

sorry about that, didn't word it too well... i blame caffeine + lack of sleep!

Would a 7806 triode be a suitable replacement for a transistor? Or do they have a different function altogether?

[NQbass7]

Rick,

Where'd that superheated section come from?  I'm kinda curious what that does/how it works.

[frequencycentral]

Rick,

Where'd that superheated section come from?  I'm kinda curious what that does/how it works.

Superheated SHO

BSIAB

[NQbass7]

*Doh*  I knew it looked familiar.  I actually even looked at the app note in the AN-32 datasheet that the mini-booster was based off of while trying to figure it out.

[jbord39]

I am planning on building this pedal (the second version posted with superheated/hot setting) but was wondering if you could help me with a few questions.  The 7806 is going to be hard for me to come by, so would a 5.1V zener and .7V silicon diode in series to ground work; or should I just use an adjustable voltage regulator?

Also, would a 7V zener and 3x .7V silicon diodes work for the 9.1V zener?  

I don't have the 2n5457; would any of these transistors work in its place?

2N5087
2N3906
2N3904
2N5089
J201 FET

Thanks,

John

[Renegadrian]

I am planning on building this pedal (the second version posted with superheated/hot setting) but was wondering if you could help me with a few questions.  The 7806 is going to be hard for me to come by, so would a 5.1V zener and .7V silicon diode in series to ground work; or should I just use an adjustable voltage regulator?

Also, would a 7V zener and 3x .7V silicon diodes work for the 9.1V zener?  

I don't have the 2n5457; would any of these transistors work in its place?

2N5087
2N3906
2N3904
2N5089
J201 FET

Thanks,

John

J201s and 2N5457s are easily interchangeable...

[jbord39]

Thanks.

[frequencycentral]

The 7806 is going to be hard for me to come by, so would a 5.1V zener and .7V silicon diode in series to ground work; or should I just use an adjustable voltage regulator?

Also, would a 7V zener and 3x .7V silicon diodes work for the 9.1V zener?  

You could use a 7805 with a 1n4148 between pin 2 and ground instead of the 7806. That would get you 6.2 volts.

Instead of the zener you could use red LED (as in the ROG Peppermill) or even a 1n418 (I believe?).

[frequencycentral]

[NQbass7]

So how's it sound??

[frequencycentral]

So how's it sound??

Just as I remember it. It's been a while since I breadboarded it. I'll get some clips up later this week.

[therecordingart]

What did you use to make that cut out in the enclosure?

[frequencycentral]

I drilled four 5mm holes, used a 4mm round file to open them into a slot, then used a flat file to finish it.

[therecordingart]

I drilled four 5mm holes, used a 4mm round file to open them into a slot, then used a flat file to finish it.

Jesus. That cut looks so clean you'd think it was done by a CNC.

[Slade]

Hi,
I breadboarded this thing and found it was too gainy (too much fuzz like!) wit 1M grid leak resistor so I went down with the resistor until I found the best value to my taste: 100k.

This demos are made to show extreme settings of this pedal.

Both demos:
- Pentode Mode
- Godin Exit 22 Guitar -> Breadboard -> Yamaha F20 Amp -> SM57 -> Presonus Audiobox Interface->PC.

Demo 1: Hot Mode - Gain at Min - Moving Tone control from Min to Max

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3565959/Le%20Craquement%20Clean%20-%20Tone.mp3

Demo 2: Superheated Mode - Gain at Max - Moving Tone Control from Min to Max

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3565959/Le%20Craquement%20Max%20Gain%20-%20Tone.mp3

Regards,
Fernando.-

[richon]

excelent....

i liked the "low gain" mode more than the other, as with "max gain" it sounded to fuzzy...


nice demo!

why can't the god of tubes give me 2 tubes my mail?       


wena Fernando!

[Slade]

why can't the god of tubes give me 2 tubes my mail?       

You have to keep praying.... in binary.

[richon]

01010010 01101001 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101110 00100000 01110111 01100001 01101110 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101101 01101001 01100011 01110010 01101111 00100000 01110100 01110101 01100010 01100101 00101100 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101 00100001 00100001 00100001 00100001



"Richon want's a micro tube"

[Slade]

Just finished this genius pedal.

I'm loving its versatility as it can go from a TOTALLY CLEAN tube sound to a harshy fuzz with a lot of gain and passing through great overdrive sounds!

I noted it was thought as an amp because it has a dual gain mode preamp, a dual pole tone control and an output tube that's being driven for those two things... Beautiful sound.

If anybody was asking about clean tube sound boost IT IS THE ONE. I was very happy with my modified THOR for its clean compressed sound until I tried this (not that Thor is a bad pedal, tough)

Thanks for your work, Rick, impressive pedal for such few components.

Pics!







Regards,
Fernando.-