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Originally Posted by Dedman
Nice, which reminds me about the 2 X 12 speaker cab I want to build for my Peavey Renown, what speaker do you reckon you'll put in the 1 X 12 cab?
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Originally Posted by Dedman
Nice, which reminds me about the 2 X 12 speaker cab I want to build for my Peavey Renown, what speaker do you reckon you'll put in the 1 X 12 cab?
I went with a Celestion Greenback. I asked a mastering mate who is friends with a custom amp/speaker guy and he said to keep away from the Classic, Vintage and G1275's Clestions. He mainly uses Jensen Falcons in bigger rigs but I'm only using the little Orange Micro
I thought you said you had a Celestion Greenback Dedman, should sound great !
Those Orange Micro amp heads still sound pretty good for their size !
Going to try it through the headphones later tonight :D
Dedman how much do those Orange Micro amp heads set you back ? keen to hear how it sounds through the 12" cab you build
Here you go Dedman might help you decide which speaker to put in your cab.
https://youtu.be/jb21UzrsCXM
Personal favourites are the Reignmaker and the Govenor.
But need to listen on something other than my iPad.
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Originally Posted by Dedman
Good choice, I think those were used in lots of early Marshalls like the JTM45 Bluesbreaker, you should get a good sound with that.
Wokka, $225 on fleabay (new). Sounds nice through my headphones LOL
Found out my pedal power supply hums like bloody flouro however, I was blaming a el cheapo delay but it's the power tank :(
cheers Dedman good price for such a compact head !
Just out of curiosity, are any of you guys interested in me doing a write-up for a tutorial on making DIY guitar leads?, I've been thinking of doing one where I show you how I make my own custom guitar leads.
why not? I bought a few plugs and cut the leads that come with the kits up and made patch cables for pedals, I really had no use for 4 2m leads :P
No worries then, I'm just in the process of making some new leads and have literally just finished making one, here's a pic of it, I used some gold-plated Tip/Sleeve plugs, and some microphone cable I bought from Jaycar Electronics today:
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The lead is 5 metres long and I think it is easily as good as a commercially manufactured lead, the cable cost me roughly $3.00/m and the connectors cost me roughly $4.00 each, I bought four of those gold-plated Tip/Sleeve plugs, so I estimate that a 5 metre lead would be roughly $25.00, but the thing is, I've made leads like these before and they have never gone faulty on me....touchwood, whereas some of the commercially manufactured leads I have bought have gone faulty within a few weeks of use.
I'm going to make another one of these leads shortly and I'll take some pics so I can document the process, will do the write up tomorrow, so stay tuned.
yea, I bought a pack of 5 patch leads and 1 didn't work, the actual plug was dodgy.
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Originally Posted by Dedman
A mate of mine bought a Planet Waves lead, which is supposed to be one of the best types of leads you can buy, it went faulty on him and he gave it to me and asked me to fix it for him.
how about a A/B/Y box Doc? Would it be a simple build (with LEDs for channel selected) ?
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Originally Posted by Dedman
I reckon it's do-able, I might need some time to experiment with a circuit to get it to the point where it's simple and easy enough to build, I've done a simple A/B box pedal, and a more complicated FX-Looper pedal with Leds, so an A/B/Y box sounds like a good project for this thread, I'm willing to give it a go.
Update:
After doing a bit of thinking, I've managed to come up with a suitable layout for the pedals which are going onto my Pedalboard, here's a pic of the layout:
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Starting at the top left of the layout, there's my new Boss CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal, next to it is my new Moen Pretty Dolly Delay pedal, next to those two is going to be my Univibe pedal (I'm using my Big Muff pedal to represent the Univibe because the Univibe is at my mate's place), the little silver rectangular box in the top right of the pic is the MXR DC Brick Power Supply.
Beneath those pedals is my Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo, followed by my Rowlin 5-Band EQ, then my Radial Tonebone Hot British pedal, next to that is my Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, followed by my new Ibanez TS-808, then there's my Jim Dunlop Crybaby Wah, my new Boss CS-3 Compressor/Sustainer, and then finally my Korg Pitchblack+ Tuner.
Here's a couple of places for A/B Y pedal or kits Dedman
http://www.loopipedals.com.au/routing/aby/aby-pedal/
http://www.mammothelectronics.com/To...fnd-abybox.htm
http://www.musikding.de/A/B/Y-Switch
Cheers Kimball!
Wah before compressor usually. Wah's and fuzzes like to be first in chain. Try it both ways, but you will probably find that the wah responds better without compression (or Boss buffering) running into it.
Update:
While visiting the big green shed for a couple of tools and some materials to do some restoration work on my Gold Standard Strat, and also to do some work on the Headless Guitar project, I decided to stop by my local Jaycar Electronics shop to buy some bits needed to finish off an Overdrive Pedal I started building last year, since it's a relatively simple design, I thought that it would be cool to include it in this thread and do a write-up for it, I'll also be making a layout diagram so that anyone interested can make one for themselves if they like, the design is based on the TS series of Tube Screamers and the Boss OD-1, stay tuned for more updates.
Cool Doc what chip does the OD-1 use
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I think it's the venerable, and much sought-after, JRC4558D chip that was used in the OD-1, I could be wrong though, but it is the most likely chip that was used due to it's cheapness, there are a few alternative chips you can use in the circuit, which are pin-for-pin compatible with the pin-out of the JRC4558D, a couple that come to mind are the TLO72CP, and the LM833, there are a couple of high-end chips which are also pin-for-pin compatible too.
The TS Tube Screamer circuit and the OD-1 circuit are very similar to each other, the only difference being that the OD-1 doesn't have the extra tone-control stage included, so you only have a Drive control and a Volume control.
Supposedly there are better chips than the JRC4558D but most of the collectors of the old Tubescreamers love its sound.
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Yep, apparently that's got a lot to do with the way the chip behaves as it recovers from being overdriven, there's an article I read somewhere that talks about this behaviour, I can't remember where I found the article but I do remember reading it, I might see if I can find it again cause it's an interesting read.
Update:
Had to put my cordless drill on charge so it could recharge it's battery overnight, it's all charged now so we can go ahead with the build-process of the new Overdrive pedal, going to be working on it today and will post some pics of the build-process for you guys.
I'm thinking of calling the pedal "Dr Overdrive", what do you guys think of that?
Here's a pic of the circuit board that's going in the new Dr Overdrive pedal:
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Here's a pic of the underside of the circuit board:
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not much to it is there?
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Originally Posted by Dedman
Yep, it's a very basic circuit so that you get all the goodness out of it, and there are no buffers so it's a true-bypass pedal, I have noticed that the best sounding pedals tend to be the ones that don't have a lot in them.
I'm just going to add a pic of the underside of the circuit board.
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So I worked on building the new Dr Overdrive pedal all last night and it is now all finished and working, I'm pretty surprised at how good it sounds through my Marshall Amp, it sounds a bit like a Tube Screamer and is pretty smooth, I'll upload some pics of the build-process and do a bit of a write-up for it later on, will also see if I can record a demo so you can hear what it sounds like too, so stay tuned.
Good job Doc Thanks for the time and effort.
Much appreciated
wow, so simple , impressively so
dr overdrive is a perfect name
Okay, here are some build-progress pics I took last night as I was building the Doctor Overdrive pedal:
As usual with all my pedal builds, I started off by marking out the centres for all the mounting holes in the diecast aluminium case:
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After drilling all the mounting holes to size, I did a quick test-fit to make sure everything was okay, and also to stick the four nylon circuit-board standoffs in place:
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These next two pics should give you a bit of an idea what the pedal is going to look like:
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Next thing to do was to start doing all the initial wiring-up of all the controls and etc, prior to installing the circuit board:
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Then I started wiring up all the controls, etc to the circuit board:
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And then comes the final wiring-up of the input socket to the footswitch and circuit-board, I also wired-up the 9V battery clip too:
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And here's a pic of the finished, and working Doctor Overdrive pedal:
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so cool, love it Doc
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Originally Posted by stan
Cheers mate, I thought you guys would like it.
You are going to have to go into business Doc
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Originally Posted by Dedman
Hahaha...I reckon, actually that wouldn't be a bad idea, would bring in some extra money for me.
Building guitar fx pedals to earn money to buy more PBG kits, that sounds cool.
I'm in a pretty vibed-up mood today, probably cause a good mate of mine is going to be popping by for a visit, with some new parts for his Peavey Triumph amp that I'm modding for him.
Last night I couldn't turn my Marshall up very loud while I was trying-out my new Doctor Overdrive pedal, so I decided to give it another test-run a few minutes ago, my initial impressions from last night were pretty spot-on, now that I was able to turn my Marshall up a bit, I'm pretty surprised just how good the pedal sounds through the clean channel of my Marshall, it seems to work pretty well, and I am really liking how dynamic the pedal is, pick softly and there's very little overdrive, as you start picking harder the overdrive gets more intense, just like a good valve amp, which is surprising cause the overdrive effect is created by what's called a back-to-back clipper-diode configuration, there's one difference between the Dr Overdrive circuit and the Tube Screamer circuit in that the Dr Overdrive circuit uses three silicon diodes in the back-to-back clipper-diode configuration whereas the Tube Screamer uses two.
I guess it's time for me to do a little demo clip of the Dr Overdrive pedal for you guys, I'll see if I can record one for you to check out, so stay tuned.
Here you go, here's a link to the demo clip I recorded for you, I recorded the pedal straight into FL Studio with no fx plugins just so you can hear the raw sound it creates:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...20Demo%202.mp3
nice work Doc, that has some nice bite