This is also something that I am interested in. I was getting ready to order parts to use the SD9 PCB that I have had laying around for yrs and ran across the new version on the web. From the videos it appears the high gain setting is the normal SD9 setting, but to my ear the normal old school SD9 i...

those are the resistor values I came up with too..... I found the 10k's for power and the 6.2k's between stages to be suprising... This is the first muff I have ever seen with values that low in either of those positions..........

you can also read the resistor values(color codes) from the pics

there seems to be an error on the schematic.... R7 & R12 should be 100k.... I was looking at the scheme and thought the 470K values looked really odd on this...most muffs use 82-100K here..(100k being most optimal)..looked at the pics and sure enough they are 100k- Brown-Black-Yellow..... the 47...

i'm guessing that Gain is controlling the power resistance on the Collector in the Bazz..... but IDK...

bubstance wrote:I think the gain pot is really a volume into the Electra and volume is the output of the Bazz.

from the traces I can see in the pic it looks like the Bloom is really the Volume of the Electra...

so we have determined this is a Electra Distortion into a Bazz Fuss.... But what are all the pots actually controling in the circuit?... obviously the Starve is probably just a 5K pot as a variable resistor on V+..... From the pic it looks like the Bloom pot is just what would be the volume pot of t...

and greater? so its not 1uF through the whole thing? interesting. Whoops! I totally lied. :lol: Here's the coupling and feedback caps: Q1 in cap: 10u Q1 collector/base feedback cap: 470p Q1 out cap: .47u Q2 in cap: .47u Q2 collector/base feedback cap: 470p Q2 diodes cap: .47u Q2 out cap: .47u Q3 in...

It almost sounds like it has clean signal mixed in yeah, that´s really peculiar and i love it with bass guitar. and works perfectly ok with active basses. cheers, lohstah this comes from not having clipping diodes on the first gain stage (Q2).... when u remove these diodes there is obviously no cli...

dude it's a tonebender cmon. zactly, I mean ProGuitarShop did a tribute vid to Led Zepplin with this pedal... Why?...cuz JP used a Tonebender on those songs.... It does these songs well cuz its a Tonebender curcuit with a "Well Matched" transistor array vs individual trans aren't we looki...

I do agree that some things like a slow blues progression in A has been copied endlessly and harmlessly. Perhaps some pedal issues are the same. I do agree that some things like a slow blues progression in A has been copied endlessly and harmlessly. = tubescreamers..FF..BMP..Tonebenders ur forgetti...

I just gave the layout a quick run thru and it seemed correct per the scheme, to my unprofessional eye.... I will give it another look this weekend when I actually have time to spend with it...I'm at work now

I am amped to put this thing together in the near future

I will give this a short at coming up with the schematic but I cannot see the trace side of the 3 res and 2 caps is doing.... can you help pleez.....? I would love to have my own version with this pedal and is very possible since I think some of our bretheren have finished up the Musket Fuzz trace ...

I will give this a short at coming up with the schematic but I cannot see the trace side of the 3 res and 2 caps is doing.... can you help pleez.....? I would love to have my own version with this pedal and is very possible since I think some of our bretheren have finished up the Musket Fuzz trace a...

http://www.earthquakerdevices.com/devices/Monarch.htm " The Earthquaker Devices Monarch is based on the input section of certain large, brightly colored vintage British tube amplifier, legendary for it's burly tonal character." :) the other Orange pedals were based of other certain Britis...

I have actually been wondering how far off this thing is from the "Orange Peel".... they seem to have alot of similar atributes.... I have been wanting one of these and the 4 knob Hoof Fuzz

I finally got a chance to go thru this thing one more time and all was spot on per Mike's layout, Still the same problems.... so... I tore it apart and started using some of the parts and enclosure for a Creamy Dreamer

I will check the stage around the 3rd tranny, It will not be for a week or so as I am super busy and tomorrow is gonna be new guitar day..... I could not resist ordering the new Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster

I went thru this with an audio probe and it seems the volume is cut or never recovers after R11, I tried some different values for R11 but no difference was audible.... Any advice....?...

I built this using ShortScaleMike's Vero Layout... works perfectly, using it to boost the overdrive channel of an old american made Peavey Classic 30, setting the gain on the amp on 3-4 and hitting it with this at about 2/3 gain and gives a great Weezer Blue album sound...... clean up with the volum...