This subforum is created at the suggestion of Analogguru who came up with the following idea for the forum
Another part should be modification: on ebay you can buy really cheap pedals. For example this week I bought a Ken-Multi/monarch Distortion for Eur 8,50 plus shipment. This boxes are not so bad. For example the PSK SDS-2, SDS-3 or SDS-5 (seems to be now the roque SDS-5 can be easily be modified to be a Rat. They put in this unit since years a 470 Ohm instead of the 47 Ohm resistor in the...
Hi, totally new to this forum :mrgreen:
I Guess this is THE place for effects pedal questions.
Been looking around for confirmed Joyo pedal clones, are there any list of the pedals they have cloned?
I haven't found one so i started a list of my own and i woulld really like you guys who have knowledge about their products to add information or deny/confirm information in my list.
.. the tittle of this thread being an attempt to play with words, although English is not my mother tongue. :P
I've already posted the explanations below in some long tedious posts or threads in other forums... But it should make more sense here. I'll just keep it relatively short for a first topic. :-)
The Tube Pilot is a cheap tube overdrive, apparently inspired by Butler / Chandler / Tube works Tube Drivers.
Problem: the Tube Pilot doesn't host any tone control nor tone correction for...
Hello, i just got this used from amazon, and like mentioned on other sites the pedal seems to have a noticeable volume drop. The pedal is digital so i'm not really sure something can be done but maybe i can post some photos for someone interested looking into it?
I just took apart my Amp Turbo. The board seems to be the same as the deluxe as it has the solder pads for the 3 switches and all the components. The components are surface mounted except the coupling capacitors witch are an orange film type, and the 2N5888 boost Transistor. All the clipping diodes are standard silicon diodes no shotkky diodes (bat46) in the boost section as a real amp 11. The boost section has 2 pairs of diodes that are selectable via the switch. One pair (D9,D10 )is a...
So, about a year ago I bought the guts of a JDF2 off eBay. I think it's the older version as it has the transistors marked DMI158 rather than the reissue NKTs. It works just fine (I was actually goofing around with it on Sunday) but it's a bit wooly and gets a touch dark when I roll the volume down.
So, before I order an enclosure to put it in I was figuring I'd like to do some simple mods to it to maybe improve the clarity and versatility, which might change how many knobs are on the...
I found an old post in wich a Joyo speaker sim bypass was discussed. The problem i encoutered (beside pcb soldering :lol: ), my JF14 appears to have a different layout............ :roll:
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Does anyone have a clue how to achieve a speaker sim bypass on this pcb board?
Hi! I'm trying to modify a Big Muff circuit adding clean signal blend. I've tried a few solutions but I'm not quite satisfied with any of them.
Initial idea was to add an input buffer (non-inverting op-amp) and split the signal into two patches also increasing input impedance significantly. I also wanted to boost clean signal a bit to make it more audible when the dry knob is set past 12 o clock. I've tried something like that (screenshot). What do you guys think? Maybe there is a good solution...
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...
I have a cheap rat clone and i'm quite happy with the tone as it when using it with my guitar on 10. ALL my guitars have treble bleeds and when i roll off the volume for clean tones which my amp does quite well, it's cleans up nicely and gets nice and chimey. But not with the RAT. Had the same issue with original RATs and ones i have built. The tone gets dull like you turned your tone control too far down. I have tried every setting possible on the amp and pedal but it's just one of those...
I was wondering if there is a way to decrease the bass by modding the Ultimate Drive. I am running this trough a bass-heavy speaker and would like to mod it to cut the bass if possible.
There seems to be DS-1 mods everywere but opinions are mixed,some people report great results while others say they buggered their pedal and they want it back to stock.
Any of you tone fiends have the definitive mods for the little orange box?
Thanks
Aharon
I cant see why, I've tried different leds, and verified they worked before and after install but I cant get the led to work in circuit.
that's the schematic. I really cant figure out why it wouldn't light up.
Are the inputs and outputs reliant on ground to make sure the led lights up? I'm just using the main I/O not the stereo, there is nothing on those solder pads.
Hi there. I recently picked up this pedal for cheap and I love it. However, it does not quite achieve unity gain when engaged and comes nowhere close unless the eff.level pot is dimed. So even with this pot maxed out, there is still a noticeable volume drop. Its significant enough to cause a problem in live mixes.
I was wondering if there was a simple mod I could make to get to unity? Its all through-hole and I'm comfortable with soldering etc.
As it stands, I have to put a clean boost after...
I'm wanting to rehouse this and make it true bypass, so I figured I'd see about some mods. Particularly, adding more depth or thickness to the chorus setting. Any other mods welcome, as well.
Also what kind of switches should I use for the modes?
I'll be putting this in a 1590DD-sized enclosure along with the Phase Modulator from the same series (no mods, I love the PM7 as-is) so space for extra knobs and switches won't be a problem.
Hey all,
first of all I may be posting in the wrong section, so mods, feel free to move the thread wherever it should be.
So I've read here and there about DemonFX and how they might be copying the cosmetics of famous pedals but not necessarily their schematics. That seems a bit silly and I don't see what they would gain from only doing half of the job.
Also I have read on Reddit someone said that Josh @JHS had (reportedly) had a look at the AT-DS and said it was not the same as their AT+ and...
a) C27 and C28 make up a non-polarized 16.5uf capacitor which sets the speed range. If the capacitance value is reduced, the speed range goes higher. Faster speed can produce an effect that sounds very much like a ring modulator. I would suggest a pair of 4.7uf caps, back to back, as a suitable replacement.
b) Maximum flanging effect needs a 50/50 balance between delay and clean signal, but sometimes you want just a taste of flanging. If the value of R29 is increased, the balance is shifted in...
Bought it and wasn't really excited with its tone. I really don't understand what goes where in a pedal, but I do ok with a soldering iron, so any ideas for little mods (with easy enough instructions :mrgreen:) are really welcome.
I bought a Mosky XP Booster pedal (one-knob clean boost) with the idea of hacking into the pot. and wiring a jack in it that I could plug an expression pedal into so I could run it as a volume-pedal / booster with a remote expression pedal.
I do like a linear expression pedal for my purposes more than an audio taper.
Does anyone know what value expression-pedal would be optimal, or even better how I could add an expression pedal that would make the range go 0-to-75%?
I was modding an unrelated Bad Monkey overdrive and one of the mods adjusted the intensity of the bass knob. I reverted it because it was too much for my liking, but it worked really well into my DS-1.
My question is, are there any ways to add a pre-distortion bass boost on the pedal? Hopefully one that wouldn't require I add my own little circuit board into the pedal?
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