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- 26 Feb 2024, 12:19
- Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
- Topic: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 531
Re: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
Personally I'm well aware of the ratio of time spend with the guitar to ability & satisfaction and I have more than enough good gear but some of it IS more fun to use. So I don't need more gear but if I can get a deal and try something new and not have to spend a lot for gear lust, ok! I have th...
- 23 Feb 2024, 14:50
- Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
- Topic: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 531
Re: Aliexpress
Generally speaking for most things sold off Ali or temu I've found they spend the most attention on looks, especially for guitars and that you just don't know details until you get it in your hands and see it in person. Also generally , you get what you pay for in the lower cost items. I think some ...
- 23 Feb 2024, 00:19
- Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
- Topic: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 531
Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
Anyone have experience, are any of the gtr pedals clones or just made to look like it? Are any of them useable?
I've seen gut shots of the Cali offered there and it's NOT the same circuit board.
Tia, Mods if this should be somewhere else, please move it!
I've seen gut shots of the Cali offered there and it's NOT the same circuit board.
Tia, Mods if this should be somewhere else, please move it!
- 21 Feb 2024, 22:49
- Forum: Stuff Seen for Sale
- Topic: Amp building book, The Ultimate Tone by Kevin O'Connor and Merlin Blencowe books
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4092
Re: Amp building book, The Ultimate Tone by Kevin O'Connor and Merlin Blencowe books
then please modify the thread title or get it deleted
- 23 Aug 2022, 19:05
- Forum: Stuff Seen for Sale
- Topic: Fender style/Brown sound/Dumble PCB boards
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3542
Re: Fender style/Brown sound/Dumble PCB boards
Are there any recorded examples? I'm curious how the noise floor might be on the crowed pcb's
- 25 Apr 2022, 14:57
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Catalinbread - Katzenkönig [traced]
- Replies: 32
- Views: 22198
Re: Catalinbread - Katzenkönig [traced]
I bought someones pcb of it. Does anyone know what changes were made to the Catlinbread Blood Donor ver.? I " read " higher overall gain to help reduce the noise floor ?
- 23 Jun 2021, 18:21
- Forum: Amplifiers
- Topic: Mesa Boogie Mk I input resistors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1590
Re: Mesa Boogie Mk I input resistors
Mesa was also known. [ or merely said to have, possibly by themselves ] to release schematics with intentional mistakes
- 21 Jun 2021, 00:56
- Forum: Modern Stompbox Effects (1975 - ...)
- Topic: ADA GCS-2 Guitar Cabinet Simulator [schematic]
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7568
Re: ADA GCS-2 Guitar Cabinet Simulator [schematic]
Just buy one!
- 26 Dec 2020, 12:51
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
How do the Vic values compare to the ocd ? Since full of himself's designs are often variations of something else, what proceeded the ocd or was IT based on?
[ edit I see it apparently is similar to the voodoo labs o/d , now which egg came before that ? ]
[ edit I see it apparently is similar to the voodoo labs o/d , now which egg came before that ? ]
- 25 Dec 2020, 14:28
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
Nice job so far, though if it's just an ocd is it worth the bother ? It's tough to get out of the case, pcb soldered in place to jacks after they're installed ?
I can say there is the 4148 protection diode in the lower right hand corner between the jack & pwr jack
I can say there is the 4148 protection diode in the lower right hand corner between the jack & pwr jack
- 24 Dec 2020, 17:46
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
This pedal never had that sticker, but I think I'll just buy it. It's reasonably satisfying to play, I thought ocd were higher gain ? dr drive feels like diodes in the fb loop but maybe it's just a reduced gain ?
- 23 Dec 2020, 17:35
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
60mm x 90mm this is all I have for images of the copper side. The trace broke off of the led so I had bent the lead over that's why it looks ugly.
- 23 Dec 2020, 14:54
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
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- 23 Dec 2020, 14:45
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
oops sorry about the poor quality pix , I didn't realize that .
- 23 Dec 2020, 14:20
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
Interesting how one guy kept the look and the other went way different [ with more offerings ]
- 20 Dec 2020, 15:58
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]
Exactly , I can't find a website for these guys, though I see someone selling their version of an 808 on reverb, Similar case form factor, which is compact and sturdy, well designed I think. i fixed one for a friend that the dc protection diode blew when it was plugged in hot, it arched which was he...
- 19 Dec 2020, 19:29
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2969
Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
Anyone know this pedal Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 , made by a company in Buenos aires Argentina and billed as a 18watt amp emulation
It appears to have one opamp & two transistors but if it's a yats it sounds pretty good for a med/ lo gain pedal
It appears to have one opamp & two transistors but if it's a yats it sounds pretty good for a med/ lo gain pedal
- 19 Jul 2020, 21:03
- Forum: Amplifiers
- Topic: Suhr Reactive Load [schematic]
- Replies: 152
- Views: 76459
Re: Suhr Reactive Load [schematic]
Just for interest, A friend and I did a shoot out with two loads, one a purely resistive and the other " reactive " reamping the same signal through a Marshall and recording it , running through an ADA speaker sim to test how the load affected the amp transformer ................ not a dra...
- 09 Jul 2020, 20:29
- Forum: Davidoff Library
- Topic: Craig Anderton, Build a Fuzzbox for under $3, Popular Electronics, January 1967
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2765
Re: Craig Anderton, Build a Fuzzbox for under $3, Popular Electronics, January 1967
It uses Ge diode ................
- 30 Jun 2020, 18:01
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Whisper of Screams (Kasha OD Pedal Trace) [traced]
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4494
Re: Whisper of Screams (Kasha OD Pedal Trace) [traced]
I haven't built this yet, [ but will ] but here a blurb apparently from a reverb listing quoting PG Super rare and out of production! This pedal does what it promises... super transparent and powerful OD. So many OD options with one pedal. Great shape and fully functional. 3M Tape on bottom. From PG...