Boss - DS-2 Turbo Distortion  [schematic]

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Anyone know anything about this one (boss turbo distortion)? Just wondering what the 'turbo' bit does...Just looked at a schematic online and it has 23 transistors in it.....confused....
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The turbo switch adds the Q23 stage as a sort of "boost" to intensify the downstream stages overdrive.
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It does a bit more I think: the turbo mode insert D8 and D9 in the feedback of the discrete op ampa and insert something on the output stage also.
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