Rocket Pedals - Animal Overdrive [guts]

mcaviel · Post by **mcaviel** » 10 Jun 2010, 10:25

Keep on the good work, Looking froward for this.

Lawnchair · Post by **Lawnchair** » 11 Jun 2010, 03:41

I just played one for a bit last week. It cured my gas for one. I heard lots of screamer in there.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » 11 Jun 2010, 03:53

Lawnchair wrote:I just played one for a bit last week. It cured my gas for one. I heard lots of screamer in there.

Yes.. good ears.
It's essentially a single opamp with diode clipping in the feedback loop.
Very simple tone control, and some fancy filtering.

I'm sure the Animal is a higher gain version of same.

indyguitarist · Post by **indyguitarist** » 14 Sep 2010, 21:27

Greg_G wrote: I picked up one of their "Chicken Soup" pedals cheap a while back, and I should have posted pics because the case design is different and fairly clever.
The Chicken Soup is supposed to be a tweaked clone of a Nobels ODR-1, but I have an original and this thing sounded pretty weak in comparison (hence the reason I got it cheap.. everyone who'd tried it moved it right on).

I got hold of the schematic, and there were unneeded parts in there left over from the removal of the switching system and all sorts of crazy things that indicated that whoever designed it didn't really understand what they were doing.
I did some serious mods to it and it sounds great now.
If anyone has one of these and wants to know how to wake it up, let me know.

I'd be curious to see what mods you like on that circuit

distortion_gfx1 · Post by **distortion_gfx1** » 15 Sep 2011, 01:58

any update on this?

cpm · Post by **cpm** » 15 Sep 2011, 07:04

uh... why use a jumper on a double sided board?
and 7 vias...

RnFR · Post by **RnFR** » 15 Sep 2011, 14:22

either it's a crappy attempt at hiding the circuit, or someone hasn't a clue of what they are doing(it could've been single sided!). auto-routing? who knows. whichever way you go, you're right- looks pretty dumb.

Manfred · Post by **Manfred** » 22 Apr 2012, 12:22

The compared PCBs of the "Blue Note" and the "Animal" are very similar in parts.
The voltage splitter resistors have changed from 470 kOhms to 330 kOhms.
The 1.2 kOhm resistor next to the bottom left corner of the PCB have changed to 470 Ohms.
The capacitors in the upper part of the PCB have changed to a bigger size.

Did anybody write down the capacitor values and measure the potentiometer values of the "Animal" ?
If you a owner of the "Animal" , I would appreciated it if you can trace the values an write down them.

bhill · Post by **bhill** » 22 Apr 2012, 13:49

Just look up either Jack Orman's "Son of a too expensive ..." or the LP Eternity. Same ckt with an option for clipping. Both basically a TS without buffers.

daz · Post by **daz** » 22 Apr 2012, 14:57

I have an animal that I recently picked up quite cheap. I'm not a fan of the TS circuit but gotta say this circuit variation sounds fantastic.

daz · Post by **daz** » 07 Aug 2012, 13:56

Manfred wrote:The compared PCBs of the "Blue Note" and the "Animal" are very similar in parts.
The voltage splitter resistors have changed from 470 kOhms to 330 kOhms.
The 1.2 kOhm resistor next to the bottom left corner of the PCB have changed to 470 Ohms.
The capacitors in the upper part of the PCB have changed to a bigger size.

Did anybody write down the capacitor values and measure the potentiometer values of the "Animal" ?
If you a owner of the "Animal" , I would appreciated it if you can trace the values an write down them.

Cap values are the same. Pot values are the same except the gain pot which is 500kA.

Rocket Pedals - Animal Overdrive [guts] [traced]