Bearfoot - Silver Bee Overdrive

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does anyone here have a Bearfoot Silver Bee and could take some gut shots of it so we can see and possibly trace what the circuit is?

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I came across Effects Layouts' Silver Fox which says it's based on the Silver Bee:

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I can't find any other reference to a trace of this pedal here or on any of the other forums, so maybe storyboardist could provide some insight\ on where it came from?

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Pics as requested. One Control though, not Bearfoot.
C4 is .22. There's no 68n that I can see so the R4 C3 high pass filter on the feedback loop is incorrect I would say.
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aionios wrote: 17 Mar 2021, 20:13 I came across Effects Layouts' Silver Fox which says it's based on the Silver Bee.

I can't find any other reference to a trace of this pedal here or on any of the other forums, so maybe storyboardist could provide some insight\ on where it came from?
A friend of mine traced it and passed it along to me. He wanted to remain anonymous. I have no reason to doubt him though, and even if it's not exactly the Silver Bee, the Silver Fox sounds awesome and I need to box it.

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aionios wrote: 17 Mar 2021, 20:13 I came across Effects Layouts' Silver Fox which says it's based on the Silver Bee:

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I can't find any other reference to a trace of this pedal here or on any of the other forums, so maybe storyboardist could provide some insight\ on where it came from?
It's interesting, I always assumed the Silver Bee was a Honey Bee with the Nature knob split in half, as Bass and Treble. That's even listed as a mod on the page for the Moody Sounds kit: "The Honey Bee Overdrive kit can be wired for Treble and Bass control where N1 and N2 each get a 50KC connected as reostat to ground and C14 made 22nF and R18 2K0." https://moodysounds.com/en/honey-bee-overdrive-kit/

The Silver Fox instead has the Treble knob on the 22nF cap to ground. The "Treble" side of the Nature knob is gone. I wonder if it sounds any different, or if it sounds basically the same and just saves a capacitor.

Also, Bjorn is really good at staying ahead of tracers by releasing new versions of everything... looks like there's also a Silver Bee with an extra "X" knob that controls dynamics: https://joespedals.com/collections/peda ... silver-bee

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