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by okgb
26 Feb 2024, 12:19
Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
Topic: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
Replies: 5
Views: 529

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...
by okgb
23 Feb 2024, 14:50
Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
Topic: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
Replies: 5
Views: 529

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 ...
by okgb
23 Feb 2024, 00:19
Forum: Parts & Tools Sourcing & Trading
Topic: Aliexpress, Good or bad experiences?
Replies: 5
Views: 529

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!
by okgb
23 Aug 2022, 19:05
Forum: Stuff Seen for Sale
Topic: Fender style/Brown sound/Dumble PCB boards
Replies: 2
Views: 3534

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
by okgb
25 Apr 2022, 14:57
Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
Topic: Catalinbread - Katzenkönig [traced]
Replies: 32
Views: 22197

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 ?
by okgb
23 Jun 2021, 18:21
Forum: Amplifiers
Topic: Mesa Boogie Mk I input resistors
Replies: 4
Views: 1584

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
by okgb
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 ? ]
by okgb
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
by okgb
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 ?
by okgb
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.
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by okgb
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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by okgb
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 .
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by okgb
23 Dec 2020, 14:20
Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
Topic: Sonomatic - Doctordrive 2 [traced]
Replies: 22
Views: 2969

Re: Sonomatic Doctordrive 2 [traced]

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, it's a light/med overdrive so I wouldn't think it an ocd, I could be wrong i never liked [ or tried much ] ocds but I liked this box

Interesting how one guy kept the look and the other went way different [ with more offerings ]
by okgb
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...
by okgb
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
by okgb
19 Jul 2020, 21:03
Forum: Amplifiers
Topic: Suhr Reactive Load [schematic]
Replies: 152
Views: 76440

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...
by okgb
30 Jun 2020, 18:01
Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
Topic: Whisper of Screams (Kasha OD Pedal Trace) [traced]
Replies: 10
Views: 4489

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...