BYOCs and amp building

[kevincurtis]

  I'm fairly confident noodling around inside a nice big hand-wired amp, but don't trust my soldering skills with small PCB's yet.

Hence the user ID? :)  they are a little fiddly, but believe me I'm no great shakes at fiddly stuff and it went ok, so I am sure you would be fine. I tested the different capacitor (.047uf film cap) last night which is the one bit I socketed - going to .22uf was way too bass heavy even on single coil for me, but the .1uf was good so I am going to have to put a switch in for that. I did put in higher max and min distortion resistors as I thought that would be fine without testing and it does have a good range on offer (but does get noisy once you get about 3/4s of max).

[hamfist]

  I'm fairly confident noodling around inside a nice big hand-wired amp, but don't trust my soldering skills with small PCB's yet.

Hence the user ID? :) 

Definately !!

[MrBump]

I built a BYOC DOD250 clone, which was a doddle.

The other day I tried an OLCircuit Orange Peel, and completely stuffed it up...

Gutted.

[FELINEGUITARS]

I'm halfway through the tubescreamer pedal
I've built it so I can swap out the different options till I find what i like
Want to put different kinds of clipping on a switch
Look at the BYOC forums - has some good tips and stuff

[badgermark]

The OLC stuff is really hard i think. The board is pretty tight and the layout doesn't always line up. I had to use the schematic to work out what came next. Tried a slow century twice and still doesn't work. Gonna build a fuzz from scratch tomorrow using strip board, let you know how it goes!

[MrBump]

The OLC stuff is really hard i think. The board is pretty tight and the layout doesn't always line up. I had to use the schematic to work out what came next. Tried a slow century twice and still doesn't work. Gonna build a fuzz from scratch tomorrow using strip board, let you know how it goes!

Yeah.  I think that I screwed the power bit up on mine.  Nothing at all.

:-(

[Kilby]

There's a DIY Build A Fuzz article in this month's Guitar Buyer (or is it Guitar And Bass?) magazine.  It's a circuit from their pedal expert, Dan something.  I can't remember much this morning can I?  :oops:

I'm tempted to have a go at that.......

Theres a video of it in action here http://www.thegigrig.com/ personally though I'm more interested in the Amp Shootout which he is also running (as Dave Gregory is involved init)

[goddamn electric]

Sorry to revise an old thread but does anybody have a copy of that buld your own fuzz article? then can put into electronic format? also if anyone has and has tried it:

how does it compare to the BYOC Fuzz if possible to compare?
is there info on where to get materials etc?

cheers

[badgermark]

I'll scan the layout tomorrow if you want, and the components are from Maplins of order from www.Banzaieffects.com.

Looks super easy, might do one myself if i have time.

[goddamn electric]

I'll scan the layout tomorrow if you want, and the components are from Maplins of order from www.Banzaieffects.com.

Looks super easy, might do one myself if i have time.

Thanks very much mate, that would be great if you could.  8)

[Doctor X]

I've done the BYOC Tonebender ESV.  It was great fun to build, design the enclosure, paint etc.  Just a shame that sound-wise it was a bit disappointing:(

[FernandoDuarte]

Hummm anybody knows one that sells it for SIMPLE booster? Like 1 knob??
Searched these GGG and BOYC and they have "treble booster" alike Brian May or "tribooster" but not the simple one...

[WezV]

the tri booster is really only a one knob booster... the other knob and switch just select flavours (actually 5 different boosts).  i like mine a lot!!


lost of schematics on line for simpler boosters!

[FernandoDuarte]

the tri booster is really only a one knob booster... the other knob and switch just select flavours (actually 5 different boosts).  i like mine a lot!!

lost of schematics on line for simpler boosters!

Oh, thanks Wez, Ireally know nothing about booster... th BBE treble boster says it fattens up and drive the tone, so the treble booster isn't a booster for high frequencies?

[horsehead]

I've actually just purchased the tri-booster to give this whole BYOC a try. Really looking forward to it, if it goes wrong it goes wrong & if I can do it...then let the fun begin!

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