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I will contact Klaus for you.
This was released slightly prior to me having the new 2021 build document ready.
This is an honest error and my fault for not having the build document done sooner.
Unfortunately the new part list has changed too much.
Hopefully you have socketed the IC chips as opposed to soldering them directly in the board?
Let me know.
Excellent answers all around.
Keyword “Invented”. Thomas Edison may have been the original “cloner”. A functional light bulb from both Sir Humphry Davy (as mentioned above) and from someone else who further refined the process 40 years before Edison filed a patent without credit.
Hint: It was not Tesla this time. There are many books and videos on that famous rivalry.
So who else would like a Free calendar?
Answer these questions correctly:
Who really invented the first working light bulb and when?
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Op Amps have basically three amplifiers or stages, the input differential stage, the gain stage, and the what?
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According to Ohms Law, when the current flowing through any portion of a circuit is known, the voltage dropped across that portion of the circuit can be determined by multiplying the current times the what?
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AC is more likely to cause a victim’s heart to do what than DC electricity?
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In the year 1970 who was the best guitar player in the world?
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Just copy and paste questions with answers below.
First one to get all questions correct wins a Free calendar.
I will determine the correctness of the answers and winner.
Well I sent you something to make you feel a little less guilty about participating in our forum.
Enjoy!
That is very nice and as good use for a combo. Thanks for sharing.
I won’t be making on-board pots for those controls because there are too many noobs that would not understand what normal is resulting in a lot of support questions and the board would also need to then be twice the size it is now.
That said it is easy enough to hand wire two pots and locate them on the enclosure wherever you like.
I do appreciate the comment which shows there are good uses to have those on-board is great for anybody to try.
Here is the new Dr. Phybes build document:
This can be found also at the Guides Page.
@middleman I am glad to be able to offer any insight.
@ Big O if by “old school” you mean the likes of Jeff Beck, Joe Bonamassa and Warren Haynes I resemble that remark. I respectfully disagree that you have to use any kind of guitar gymnastics to employ this tactic.
For those interested here are a few links for more insight on using your Volume Control on your guitar.
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Here is a direct Bonamassa quote from this article: https://www.musicradar.com/news/joe-bonamassa-reveals-his-guitar-tone-secrets-what-surprises-me-now-more-than-anything-is-the-affordability-of-a-great-sound
On getting a great overdrive sound
“I would say 90 per cent of the overdrive comes from the amps. The headroom is in the power section. The thing is, when you overdrive a high-wattage amp, when you roll the guitar back it blooms and there’s enough clean headroom; the amp has got headroom to where it’ll clean up and bloom, and bring in the overdrive gradually.
“A low-wattage amp in the bathroom will do the same thing as all this will on a big stage. A low-wattage amp, if you roll the guitar down it’ll still destroy it and still compress it. Then, by the time you’re down two or three, it’s still way too distorted. So, where I like it is when you roll the guitar down, the tone cleans up and spreads out.
“When you wail on it, it gets saturated, but it doesn’t compress, it doesn’t collapse. That’s my kryptonite. If the amp is too distorted and too compressed, I might as well just play miniature golf. I just don’t have the ability to back up the attack enough to where I find the sweet spot.”
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and of course the man himself:
There are loads of how to videos on YouTube should you wish to explore more.
Just use “guitar volume knob technique” as a search in YouTube or the net.
There is a lot more than just volume swells out there.
Enjoy all the bits above!
Put R10 on a switch and use the 220k stock value and use 330k as a higher gain value.
Easy to do by removing R10 and placing our DPDT board on a switch. Then put the two values on the board. You could then mod the values to suit your taste but 220k to 330k is a very good range for the circuit.
Finally add a Stage 3 Booster or Afterblaster as a combo inside the pedal. Place it after the BB circuit.
Maybe even try 200k for the stock range and 330k for the higher gain range. The Afterblaster will pick up any loose ends and also add more oomph to the available distortion as well.
Doing those things will give you more versatility and will be better than other smaller mods.
Slightly off topic: The biggest thing to do to get the most versatility is to work the guitar Volume Knob. The circuit will react very well depending on what guitar, pickups and Volume control setting. I just showed this example to a friend a week ago who was struggling, trying to play a quieter picking part in a mostly distorted song and was struggling. While he was playing I reached over and turned his guitar volume down to 7 or so for him and he was shocked at what happened (which was a simple thing) but it gets the job done. Hopefully he will work on his habit of grinding everything out on 10.
Another consideration is lower output pickups “vintage wound” which IMHO are the best and have the most versatility compared to higher output pickups which ultimately decrease your distortion headroom dramatically. While this is subjective it makes a huge difference and is well documented on the webs. I would consider any pickup measuring 10k ohm or higher to be too hot for me. This new and exiting age of pedals and search for more headroom has made “vintage wound” pickups very popular again.
At the end of the day a circuit is a circuit. (so compare circuit schematic differences) If they are the same they will sound the same. The circuit includes everything from the guitar to the amp and in between. That leaves about a hundred variables to examine. When you start talking about a “hairy chip” though that is where we enter very subjective territory of which I am not going to comment on unless I am standing right there. That said most smaller mods probably would not even be noticeable unless tested in a super quiet “vs. comparison” but while playing the pedal in a normal group setting I doubt you will care or hear much difference.
I know most of your question was about comparing just two pedals. I gave you the direct Mods up top for that but at the same time your questions also called for me to point out some other things for consideration anyway.
