Ken Willmott, Build a Guitar Preamp Distortion Box, in: Popular Electronics, August 1995 🇺🇸

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I swear I've seen in this forum a diagram of another pedal with this same topology, but I can't remember its name, nor in which section to find it...

Even the article had the oscillograms of the waveforms at different points of that circuit. :roll:

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ppluis0 wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 02:53 I swear I've seen in this forum a diagram of another pedal with this same topology, but I can't remember its name, nor in which section to find it...

Even the article had the oscillograms of the waveforms at different points of that circuit. :roll:
Reminds me of the differential distortion.

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You're right !!!
It's similar in concept to Dinosaural tube bender.

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CheapPedalCollector wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 10:06
ppluis0 wrote: 24 Feb 2022, 02:53 I swear I've seen in this forum a diagram of another pedal with this same topology, but I can't remember its name, nor in which section to find it...

Even the article had the oscillograms of the waveforms at different points of that circuit. :roll:
Reminds me of the differential distortion.
actually it's exactly the same...

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