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- 20 Mar 2024, 18:22
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Fulltone - OCD [traced]
- Replies: 622
- Views: 281606
Re: Fulltone - OCD [traced]
The schematic looks accurate, everything is hooked up the way I described. If anything needs changing let me know. aion mentioned some input buffer changes. If anybody knows anything let me know so I can add them to the pic. It's been awhile, but from memory it would have been C15 that was removed -...
- 09 Mar 2024, 01:08
- Forum: DIY Projects
- Topic: A Single Chip Phaser!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 909
Re: A Single Chip Phaser!
A general consensus states that device circuit diagrams are always drawn in the disengaged situation... I think that also applies to a MXR clone. I've been doing this for something like 13 years now and have never, not once, encountered this consensus... if anything, with regard to effects pedals, ...
- 03 Mar 2024, 20:11
- Forum: DIY Projects
- Topic: 5.6 Zener Diode replacement...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 266
Re: 5.6 Zener Diode replacement...
Look for the 1N5232B. It's an exact substitute with the same wattage rating. Mouser has them for 0.16 each.
- 10 Jan 2024, 14:28
- Forum: Pedal Debugging & Troubleshooting Support
- Topic: Looking for advice: Wiring the grounds on an isolated DC/DC converter [SOLVED]
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13774
Re: Looking for advice: Wiring the grounds on an isolated DC/DC converter [SOLVED]
Given all your info, I plan to wire this DC/DC converter's input ground and output common lead together, at the star ground point for the pedal. That's where I usually tie together all the various grounds including power, signal and chassis. That leaves the option of separating them for troubleshoo...
- 02 Dec 2023, 18:42
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Xotic - SL Drive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6208
Re: Xotic - SL Drive
I didn't understand that decision. For 1590B, you have to use side-mounted jacks unless you use the 1590B2 or 1590BS, which are taller but much harder to find globally. A 1590B with side jacks takes up more horizontal room than a 125B with top jacks, even if you use low-profile plugs (and it's sign...
- 30 Nov 2023, 15:41
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Xotic - SL Drive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6208
Re: Xotic - SL Drive
Nope, since 2018 everything has been 125B minimum.
- 29 Nov 2023, 16:49
- Forum: Modern Stompbox Effects (1975 - ...)
- Topic: Maxon - PH-350 Rotary Phaser
- Replies: 22
- Views: 16615
Re: Maxon - PH-350 Rotary Phaser
That would be mine! I have the trace finished and am working on the board layout now. Hoping to have some progress over the holidays. There's nothing quite like the HTV vactrols, so I'm expecting the prototyping phase will take awhile in testing out substitutes. But it's one of my three major circui...
- 29 Nov 2023, 02:47
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Xotic - SL Drive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6208
Re: Xotic - SL Drive
In progress Got them both traced but didn't get the boards done in time for this past batch. (They're almost identical btw, as you'd imagine)roseblood11 wrote: ↑28 Nov 2023, 23:37Please make pcb's for the Xotic Super Sweet and Super Clean boosters
- 27 Nov 2023, 14:25
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Stamps - DriveOmatic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5287
Re: Stamps - DriveOmatic
Yep - a RAT with a couple of very bad component choices (but easily remedied... and sounds killer once you do). Hi aionios, Can you explain a little bit about those "bad components choices" and how we can upgrade them ? Thanks in advance !! Jose There's a lot of info on this both in the t...
- 26 Nov 2023, 20:06
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Xotic - SL Drive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6208
Re: Xotic - SL Drive
I did a reverse on my sl a couple of years ago. I see some differences. R19 (270 OHM) IN SERIES WITH THE H/MID CUT SWITCH AND C11. I measured C11 as 100nF. It's possible this was a revision of some sort, and the missing R19 and R20 in the numbering would certainly support this - but mine definitely...
- 25 Nov 2023, 19:51
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: BJF - Honey Bee Overdrive degooped [traced]
- Replies: 493
- Views: 190879
Re: BJF - Honey Bee Overdrive degooped [traced]
I revisited the Honey Bee circuit recently for an updated PCB design and fell down the rabbit hole a bit. In studying the One Control version that was traced a few years ago, the Moody Sounds kit version designed by Bjorn, and the Blueberry bass variant, I started to get a feeling that we may have m...
- 24 Nov 2023, 17:05
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Stamps - DriveOmatic
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5287
Re: Stamps - DriveOmatic
Yep - a RAT with a couple of very bad component choices (but easily remedied... and sounds killer once you do). The channel switching selects between two drive knobs, which are voiced nearly the same, so it's more of a preset selector than anything. Schematic: stamps-drive-o-matic-trace-schematic.pn...
- 24 Nov 2023, 17:03
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Catalinbread - The Silver Kiss
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16640
Re: Catalinbread - The Silver Kiss
Here you go! This is the Mk2 version, but seems to have been an early one because the RX and CX capacitors were wired offboard and it used a 2007 PCB (the same year the Mk1 came out). The PCB in the previous post looks like it says 2008 (though it's blurry and can't tell for sure) and it doesn't hav...
- 24 Nov 2023, 16:53
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Amptweaker - Tight Drive
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2016
Amptweaker - Tight Drive
Amptweaker's first pedal design... lots of similarities to the Tight Metal/Tight Rock, but stripped down a bit. Less gain, no noise gate, a bit less tone shaping, no switches. Schematic: amptweaker-tight-drive-trace-schematic.png Full tracing journal here: https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal-amp...
- 24 Nov 2023, 16:51
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Amptweaker - Tight Fuzz
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2043
Amptweaker - Tight Fuzz
This one is pretty cool. A switchable silicon/germanium fuzz wrapped in Amptweaker's signature pre-drive bass cut and Muff-ish tone stack. Schematic: amptweaker-tight-fuzz-trace-schematic.png Full tracing journal here: https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal-amptweaker-tight-fuzz/ PCB available here...
- 24 Nov 2023, 16:49
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Xotic EP-Booster [traced]
- Replies: 172
- Views: 177111
Re: Xotic EP-Booster [traced]
Here's the V2. The +3dB is kind of ridiculous... they added a series resistor in-line with the output that reduces the volume by 3dB, then added a switch to bypass it. So the +3dB setting is the same as the V1, and the new feature is that you can turn that setting off. Schematic: xotic-ep-booster-tr...
- 24 Nov 2023, 16:45
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Xotic - SL Drive
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6208
Xotic - SL Drive
A semi-original from Xotic... some RAT similarities, but plenty of differences compared to your average RAT clone. Schematic: xotic-sl-drive-trace-schematic.png Full tracing journal here: https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal-xotic-sl-drive/ PCB available here: https://aionfx.com/project/silvanus-...
- 24 Nov 2023, 16:37
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Catalinbread - Octapussy
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12889
Re: Catalinbread - Octapussy
Schematic:
Full tracing journal here:
https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal ... octapussy/
PCB available here:
https://aionfx.com/project/nereus-octave-fuzz/
Full tracing journal here:
https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal ... octapussy/
PCB available here:
https://aionfx.com/project/nereus-octave-fuzz/
- 24 Nov 2023, 16:35
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Keeley - Compressor Plus
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1623
Keeley - Compressor Plus
It didn't seem like anyone had attempted this one aside from the photos in this thread , so here you go. Schematic: keeley-compressor-plus-trace-schematic.png Full tracing journal here: https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal-keeley-compressor-plus/ PCB available here: https://aionfx.com/project/aur...
- 06 Oct 2023, 19:17
- Forum: Boutique Stompboxes dissected...
- Topic: Pete Cornish - GC-1 [traced]
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5731
Re: Pete Cornish - GC-1 [traced]
Thank you for your thoroughness and for sharing all those traces! Brilliant as usual. Interesting that the lack of smoothing resistor (R12) qualifies as hard clipping for Pete :D Hmm, I wonder if that's why he calls it that - it's hard er clipping than the CC-1 with the series resistor in place... ...