Blues Buster Clipping

[Anonymous]

Hi folks & thanks in advance.

I’m about to build a couple of Blues Buster kits up for friends. Fairly simple question regarding this PCB.

Q: If I use a “center off” switch instead of the standard DPDT, will I add a third clipping (standard/no clipping at all/LED) option, or just not have a functioning pedal?

If this doesn’t work, is there a better way to achieve this?

Thanks for the advice team!

[Chuck]

I did that.  The center becomes ‘no clipping’ but doesn’t make a startling difference from the other two settings.

Chuck

[Anonymous]

Thanks for confirming that Chuck!

I figured it wouldn’t be a massive difference, especially at moderate gain levels (like the KoT). Just being lazy and asking instead of checking.

Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

For anyone interested, I did this in the end on 4 kits/2 two-in-one pedals.

As discussed, I used a center off switch on every board to have two diode clipping options plus a diode lift option. I also used a 500k gain pot in the first circuit of each pedal (as in the high gain KoT mod).

Really happy with the dynamic and gain option this gives.

Compared really well to a friends Analogman KoT and my vero KoT clone. Only major audible difference when build as per the PCB is that the hard clipping option is more of a hard edged dynamic sound due to the LED clipping rather then a subtle distortion.

It is also a tight-ish squeeze in a 1590BB enclosure. I will post some pictures in the appropriate thread.

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