This subforum is created at the suggestion of Analogguru who came up with the following idea for the forum
Another part should be modification: on ebay you can buy really cheap pedals. For example this week I bought a Ken-Multi/monarch Distortion for Eur 8,50 plus shipment. This boxes are not so bad. For example the PSK SDS-2, SDS-3 or SDS-5 (seems to be now the roque SDS-5 can be easily be modified to be a Rat. They put in this unit since years a 470 Ohm instead of the 47 Ohm resistor in the...
Hi, totally new to this forum :mrgreen:
I Guess this is THE place for effects pedal questions.
Been looking around for confirmed Joyo pedal clones, are there any list of the pedals they have cloned?
I haven't found one so i started a list of my own and i woulld really like you guys who have knowledge about their products to add information or deny/confirm information in my list.
I was modding an unrelated Bad Monkey overdrive and one of the mods adjusted the intensity of the bass knob. I reverted it because it was too much for my liking, but it worked really well into my DS-1.
My question is, are there any ways to add a pre-distortion bass boost on the pedal? Hopefully one that wouldn't require I add my own little circuit board into the pedal?
I just took apart my Amp Turbo. The board seems to be the same as the deluxe as it has the solder pads for the 3 switches and all the components. The components are surface mounted except the coupling capacitors witch are an orange film type, and the 2N5888 boost Transistor. All the clipping diodes are standard silicon diodes no shotkky diodes (bat46) in the boost section as a real amp 11. The boost section has 2 pairs of diodes that are selectable via the switch. One pair (D9,D10 )is a...
I recently bought a Brown Distortion pedal by Mosky, because I'd heard it was a clone of the Wample Pinnacle.
It does sound good, but I'm experiencing what I believe is the infamous sag issue, but that's not the point of this post.
Anyway I've opened it up and traced the components. It is indeeed a close copy of the Pinnacle, at least compared to the schematic for it that I found on this forum.
The layout is different and there are a few different values. It is well made and with...
.. the tittle of this thread being an attempt to play with words, although English is not my mother tongue. :P
I've already posted the explanations below in some long tedious posts or threads in other forums... But it should make more sense here. I'll just keep it relatively short for a first topic. :-)
The Tube Pilot is a cheap tube overdrive, apparently inspired by Butler / Chandler / Tube works Tube Drivers.
Problem: the Tube Pilot doesn't host any tone control nor tone correction for...
Has anyone modded the GDI-21?
I think I'd like to add a mid control to it, True bypass, and fix the darn squealies the thing makes with EMG pickups.
I'm also considering using them as building blocks to build a 4 channel preamp.
I have a Tech 21 tri-ac that I love, and the Behringer GMX amp as a backup.
The gmx looks like two GDI-21 with a different input configuration on the jack.
The GDI just sounds like crap against the other two.
Anybody ever mod an Arion Stereo Flanger? I could use any help I can get as all I can do is switch out parts, no real technical knowledge at this point. But I do like to take the stuff apart and put it back together, especially when it sounds so much better after changing a couple of parts. Anyway if anybody can give me some info thanks very much.
Hey all,
first of all I may be posting in the wrong section, so mods, feel free to move the thread wherever it should be.
So I've read here and there about DemonFX and how they might be copying the cosmetics of famous pedals but not necessarily their schematics. That seems a bit silly and I don't see what they would gain from only doing half of the job.
Also I have read on Reddit someone said that Josh @JHS had (reportedly) had a look at the AT-DS and said it was not the same as their AT+ and...
he function of D14-15 is pretty unclear to me, they don't add clipping nor affect the volume or tone, so I just keep them in. D11-12 have the biggest effect on the distortion, you really hear the difference when you use a LED or silicon/germanium diode here. D8-9 have the least effect, I mean, you do hear the difference, but it doesn't really change the overall tone, the effect blends in with D11-12.
I use a Germanium in D8, D9 is standard, D11 standard and D12 a 5mm red Led. This gives me an...
Hey all, I'm new to the modding game and slowly getting my head around schematics and such. As I understand it, the DF-2 pretty much has the same distortion circuit as the DS-1, though given it's fitted alongside the feedbacker, the schematic to an amature is decidedly more difficult to figure out. Now, following it I can kind of see how the distortion's the same, but I'm not so sure on how to perform DS-1 mods on it without possibly bricking the whole thing.
I have a cheap rat clone and i'm quite happy with the tone as it when using it with my guitar on 10. ALL my guitars have treble bleeds and when i roll off the volume for clean tones which my amp does quite well, it's cleans up nicely and gets nice and chimey. But not with the RAT. Had the same issue with original RATs and ones i have built. The tone gets dull like you turned your tone control too far down. I have tried every setting possible on the amp and pedal but it's just one of those...
I've bought a cheap Belcat PHS-605 Phaser and it arrived some days ago. The build quality and sound is okay for 34 bucks, A bit too much flux is the only thing to complain about. I really dig the sweet graphic design and clear knobs.
It didn't work at first so I opened the housing and found a trim pot. It turned out that it wasn't set by the manufacturer at all.
I setted it by ear. A little tricky, but it worked for me. I used the Rate in the middle and depth all the way up...
I´m not quite sure if a 49€-pedal qualifies as cheap, but to me it does.
I acquired a Nobels PRE-1 for 30€ used and I figured I´d do a few things to it. It´s built rather sturdy.
As a starter: how do I change the frequencies of the treble and bass bands.
Can anyone explain what the circuit is called and how to calculate the values for different frequencies? The manual states 25Hz and 10kHz.
What type of EQ is this anyway? Shelving?
Forget about Teese wahs and all the bullshit about specially manufactured parts etc., here is how to make any standard cry baby wah sound much better. :wink:
First - replace all those shitty little blue capacitors with some better quality ones - I used those little grey MKT film types, but you could use xicon film for still better results. (They are 10n x 2, and 220n x 2).
Second - find the 4.7uf electrolytic capacitor and it's 82k ohm bypass resistor - replace them with a 3.3uf BP paralleled...
I bought this cheap house brick of a pedal about a year ago and i love the tones you get out of it but theres a huge volume drop when its engaged , so i was wondering if i could remedy this some how , all the resistors look like tiny surface mounted ones to me but i was thinking maybe i could add a small boost circuit as theres plenty of room inside the casing ,
I really new to pedal modding so im just looking for feedback/ideas on the subject , i can add photos if you like.
Here's another cheap flanger to monkey with. Through hole construction, attractive mauve plastic potato bug enclosure, 3 trimmers on the board, what's not to love for a $20 flanger?
Obviously I'm going to play with the trimmers. DUH. But what else can we do with this thing? What is it based on?
NOTE:
The board is pretty brittle. I chipped off a part of it (you can see in the photos) and will have to scrape away the green and run jumper wire. This happened because those knobs are ON...
I have a Daphon E20CH Chorus pedal which came to me in a broken state, though was an easy fix, and now I'm wondering if I can give it some improvements to make it as quiet as possible and maximise its performance.
It's using the MN3207/MN3102 BBD pair, plus there's a MC4558 and 022D JRC (an 8-pin amp chip). There's 8-10 X C1815 transistors. Most of the caps are green polys - plus several cheap-brand electrolytics. The resistors all appear to be carbon film, the PCB is...
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