simple 2 knob hi gain distortion..collaboration?

[johanp]

@deadastronaut, just read the whole thread, I must say this pedal sounds amazing! And your guitar playing is also top notch.

[deadastronaut]

thanks man, yeah ive built a few and people love em.......

edit:

this is it on breadboard through an amp....i was testing it out...for decay sound etc...

http://www.youtube.com/user/100roberthenry?feature=mhum#p/u/7/W_5SZVyUP-Y

[Ice-9]

Sounds great and such a simple circuit. Your playing does it justice.

One day left handed guitarists will rule the world.

[deadastronaut]

Sounds great and such a simple circuit. Your playing does it justice.

One day left handed guitarists will rule the world.

cheers man, yeah its nice and simple, like me ...it took a while to tame it, but it was well worth the perseverence...

and yes, us leftie's will.... 

[Perrow]

One day left handed guitarists will rule the world.

and yes, us leftie's will.... 

[deadastronaut]

not that kind of lefty.....

yeah i agree with her...and she is very agreeable too...

[skatman]

What a great sounding pedal !! this rocks !!!!   

Cheers From Fellow Lefty - Australia 

Paul

[deadastronaut]

a big hi to down under.....another lefty...see we will take over the world..

[Perrow]

not that kind of lefty.....

Ya'll look alike to me 

[runmikeyrun]

Wow that sound clip sounds sick!!!  Great playing too!

Now- has anyone tried this on bass?  And an active bass at that?  I play active Ibanez 5 string.

[deadastronaut]

nope!...i have a 5 string bass, not active though!....

[Der Groovemeister]

I just built it but thought there was too little bass, so i changed the output cap to .47uF. I put a Marshall 18 watt tone stack (only treble) on the end (From this site: http://amps.zugster.net/articles/tone-stacks). Changed the tone pot value to 100KB. 500K didn't work right on this thing. I'm pretty pleased with the sound so far. It's now late at night so i cant crank the amp. I'll try it louder tomorrow.
I think somewhere in this thread someone told the best voltage for the trimpot setting, but i can't find it anymore. Does anybody know? I tuned it by ear, so i guess that's always best...

[deadastronaut]

@servas.

cool, glad you tried it..and modded it to suit your ears....

i deliberately left off any tone control as i use an eq pedal for that...i just wanted drive and volume..nice n simple.

yes i trim by ear...rob.

[space_ryerson]

I was playing with the circuit on a breadboard to get it to be bass friendly. I played with caps values, then added a buffered clean blend. It sounds pretty good with an active bass. With the clean blend added, I opted to actually remove some bass from the distortion, so the low end would still be clean and defined, but the high end would be distorted.

+1 more lefty for world domination.

[deadastronaut]

@tim. sounds good for a bass version...for us superior lefties...

[Der Groovemeister]

I tried it louder now and... Sounds great, but max volume is below unity!
So the tonestack is sucking way too much gain. Have to try others. I only want one tone knob.
To be continued...

[deadastronaut]

yes thought it would...stick a buffer on the output,

[Der Groovemeister]

Buffer before or after the tonestack?
And can you please draw up a schematic of the last vero version for reference?
Thanks man!

[arma61]

I tried it louder now and... Sounds great, but max volume is below unity!
So the tonestack is sucking way too much gain. Have to try others. I only want one tone knob.
To be continued...

hi

search for SWTC (stupid wanderful tone control, something like that!) it's supposed to be a low gain drinker!

Cheers
Armando

[Der Groovemeister]

I lowered the 1M res at the output to 220K and now there's enough volume to drive the tonestack. We don't need no stinkin' buffers!   
This is a great distortion pedal! Awesome!