Prescription Electronics - Depth Charge  [traced]

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Post by Bernardduur »

Hey all!

As a bass player I love to use effects; I never heard this pedal but some bass players rave upon this little unit. Someone knows what happens inside one of em?

Thanks!

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+1

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Post by modman »

Have a look here:

http://www.grygrx.net/photos/bassstuff/ ... pthCharge/

I'm sure we've seen this one somewhere before... anybody?
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I don't know why this pedal sometimes gets compared to the brassmaster. The one I tried sounded nothing like my brassmaster clone, which I think of as a sort of old school type fuzz. The depth charge struck me as more of a heavy metal type distortion.

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I could be way off base but I recall reading in GP that it was a Beebaa type affair...?

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Any updates or something????
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Post by paperhouse »

Described as a Brassmaster here:

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paperhouse wrote:Described as a Brassmaster here:

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I've played a Brassmaster once and this one once and they don't compare. The Brassmaster is octave up niceness, this sounded more like a regular fuzz
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for bass fuzz....get a regular muff and drop either the first or second clippin diodes and increase tone cap to taste....you are pretty much sending people on early rapture [smilie=pope.gif]
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seniorLoco wrote:for bass fuzz....get a regular muff and drop either the first or second clippin diodes and increase tone cap to taste....you are pretty much sending people on early rapture [smilie=pope.gif]
I use that now.......... :)
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Bump!

Anyone able to get this one traced out?

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Post by soulsonic »

Here ya go, brothers and sisters!


And of course, the (long-awaited) schematic!
Prescription Electronics - Depth Charge schematic
Prescription Electronics - Depth Charge schematic
It looks like all your guesses about it being a Brassmaster or a modded Muff are completely wrong... it's clearly a modded Super Fuzz! :lol:

Sound pretty nice too; though I might want to increase the value of R9 because the clean blend seems to overpower the fuzz too easily.
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Awesome! Much thanks for that.

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thanx for the great work ! another bass mystery solved !
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Many thanks!
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SWEET!
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Post by devastator »

thanks !

What's the particularity of the TR4/TR5 ? we see that couple often in old circuit .

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Post by gkoerselman »

Thanks a lot for this soulsonic! Any ideas on transistor substitutes?

I can get some 2N3707s on eBay but was wondering if they are worth the extra cost (with variable hfe's and stuff).

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I´m new in this post, I¨ve collecting squematic for personal use (my two children , have a band and need pedals) also I´ve to work on it; With my classroom and science guys; well congratulacion of these fantastic site; one more tip; you made the pedal; you will post the board (PCB-with heigth) and layout please!!!!!
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