McCrypt is an company label of the German distributer Conrad.
I bought the pedal at a favourable price.
I was thinking the pedal is defective, because it was bad sounding,
rather like a fuzz.
The schematic was not available at Conrad, therefore making it necessary to trace the circuit.
finally it is a Krank Maximus style Clone.
The reason for the bad sounding was the wrong biasing of the transistor input stage,
the output signal became heavily asymmetrical distorted at low input signal levels....

Took my buddies crybaby wah, did true bypass, removed input buffer components, various mods, component value changes, yellow fasel inductor. The wah now sounds waaaayyyy more vintage, 60's quack sound is very much there. Sanded down paint on rocker portion, added led, vocal mod 100k pot. Labor of love

First post here. I couldn't find a transcription of Brian Wampler's recent mod to the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone pedal to bypass the heavy distortion stages of this beast and turn it into a decent EQ pedal/clean boost.

Apologies if it has been posted already but I thought others might want to polish this turd too.

The mod is last 3rd of his video here:

So what you'll need are :

* one small jumper
* a 1 to 2 wire,
* a 1k resistor
* two .22 uf (224) capacitors
* and two 1 uf (105) capacitors...

What's the best way of applying artwork to a powder coated enclosure? I know on plain Aluminium you can heat transfer a design using the laser printer method, but will this work on a powder coated enclosure?

I was thinking of just buying some A4 sheets of water slide paper and printing it onto that.... But I think heat transfer may be better.

Hi all, fantastic forum, cheap to great, love it.

Wondered if anyone has a clue how to tame the earache of my Bespesco Weeper and turn it into something more magical (or at least not as shrill, brittle and plain dreadful as it is now!)

There is a thread on here examining a Proel wah and mentioning the Bespeco as the same. However inspired enough to take apart my Bespeco Weeper (and contemplate reverse-engineering it back to Colorsound specs), I notice my board is very different, neat square...

i've seen a couple variants of this one, these apply to the two transistor more recent ones.

for all intents, its a v847 circuit. almost literally. so..... what to do?

well, lets start at the input. take out the 10n input cap, and replace with 22n. suddenly it has a much better wah range, adds about another octave of bass.
take out the 56k resistor in line with that cap, and go with a 39k (33k-47k are fine, but 39k has a distinct sound to it in the way the pedal reacts.)

replace the q1 e...

Hello dear friends I will be short.
I want to modify my ME-50 and split modulation and rev/delays go through the stereo outs ONLY and distortion wah and comp to go through another output ONLY .(maybe through the headphone out)
Purpose being to hook up mod/delays in the fx loop of my amp and dis/comp in the front using the different outputs.while i plug my gtr on the input of the Boss.
is there a way to do that and if so,can anyone instruct me on how to do it?

Thank you very much

Hi All,

New face here. I've been starting to learn guitar this year since I never did as a kid and of course the pedal bug has got me... I know I should concentrate on learning to play the thing, but I can't help the engineer within me.

I'm looking for a punk/ska/pop-punk tone. This seems to be characterised in general by Mesa Boogie Tripple Rectifiers by many of the bands who play such music but not all. Orange heads, Telecasters, P90's, LPs are all in the mix too. As a beginner playing in a...

I've been looking on the internet but didn't find a schematic for my Biyang TR-8
Can anybody help me?

edwinbass@gmail.com

With Great Regards!

the biyang tremolo or the fame stutterer tremolo is equivalent to the boss tr-2 but has got true bypass instead of buffered output. too bad the volume of the effect is not loud enough.

no problem, just replace R6 (10K) with a lower value or solder on the backside of the pcb another resistor parallel to R6. i used a 5,6K resistor parallel to R6. now the pedal is much more useable.

have fun. you can't go wrong with this pedal. :secret: BEST BANG FOR BUCKS!!

Hello,
Has anybody out there modded the DOD Fx57? I just picked one of these up for very cheap because nobody seems to like them. I have a sort of soft spot for undesirable distortion pedals...and this one has a pretty bad rap, despite a lot of interesting components inside. I thought I might be able to find more mods online, but so far the most I've come up with is in regards to tweaking the trim pots via this post on gearbug.com from 2002:

ok, this CAN be a pretty fun pedal --with a simple...

Hi everyone,

I was looking at pics of the pcbs of the other sound pedals & noticed that the California Sound had a different Mic sim included in it. The parts are R29, C20 & C21 on the board. I put a box on image attached to locate them for ease. I removed R29 & C21 so that the mic sim now matches the other sound pedals. The mod helps bring in more presence & makes the bass a lot more manageable, compared to the stock setting there is a very slight increase in hiss since more highs are coming...

Anyone tried out these chinese cheapies, parts look close to an op amp big muff!! Might be worth playing with and adding that james tone stack..

Hi,
I found a great analog delay a couple months ago and really like it, but it could be better...
Has anyone had any success modifying the Delay Champ? Any suggestions?

Thanks,

just bought a fab tone online by accident.. :oops:
do any of the bright minds on here have any ideas on how to pimp this sucker??
thanks in advance

Hi guys, after two years of building my own pedals I've broken down a purchased a Boss RV-3 just to have some reverb on my board when gigging in Japan (you never know what kind of amp you'll encounter as they are provided by the venue here). I tried reverse engineer the Hermida reverb box that used the brick digital reverb but I failed miserably twice so I gave up and bought the Boss.

Anyway, I've listened to a number of samples of Boss RV-3 with a high cut switch mod and I love the option of...

Hello,

I know this has been discussed on here before but Im desperate for help here. Total noob with pedal mods but very good with a soldering iron! Would really like to use this pedal on my board but cant cope with the tone sucking. can anyone give me a full retards guide to wiring in the bypass switch? I have the switch at the ready.

Big thanks in advance

Hi guys, I've been toying with this idea for a long time and wondered if you had any suggestions or foresee any problems I might encounter. I play Pedal Steel and I use 3 stomp boxes (chorus, delay and phaser). I'd like to take the guts out of them and put them all into one box with flick switches as opposed to push switches.I'd also like to run them from one power source ie powerbrick. I don't have much knowledge of electronics so I'm worried that I'll blow the whole lot. Any ideas would be...

Anyone know any mod for these cheap bad boys?

So far I have traced the Pruely Fuzz. It appears to be nearly dead on..The Red Fuzz you can find the schematic at General Guitar Gadgets. The input cap is larger and the feed back loop cap is smaller. Otherwise they use all full size parts and through hole. Actually well built.

I looked over their compelling drive. I am pretty sure it's an OCD power by a 4558 rather than a TL082. I will trace it out soon.

Anyone else have a look at these?

I am trying to take the volume knob off a Joyo phaser and I can't see the type of screw holding it on. (don't want to mess it up) Can you help??

Hi, I've been searching long and hard for some kind of instructions on modding my Boss MT-2 with the Keeley Twilight mod. So far all I can find is which caps to change and diodes to replace with red LED's. What I'm looking for is the instructions and schematic with the full mod that includes the 3 position toggle switch. If anyone has any idea where I might be able to find this info would be great, cheers!

I opened up my movall / tone city klone to put in some germaniums, but the existing smd's look like they allready are. but im a noob so am not sure.

Do these look like germaniums ?

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