Musikding pedal kits

[WezV]

decided to have a go with one of these to see what they are like - the price is pretty good

so i got myself a screamer kit.   
http://www.musikding.de/product_info.php/info/p1618_The-Screamer---Overdrive-kit.html

It arrived quickly with no customs charges so thats always good.  No instructions though.  there are clear pictures and a schematic on the website so its not too hard to figure out but its not the byoc painting by numbers approach.

By the time i had wired it up i was getting pretty fed up with the wire they had supplied, being quite prone to stray 'hairs' - but it all went together well and sounds pretty good, better than it should at this price.

One problem though, they say is can be a TS-9 or TS-808 clone but i really dont know which i ended up with, there were parts for both, but only one circuit diagram to follow and it didnt have a title!

anyway - decided to have some fun with decals as well - makes me realise i need a better printer so i may redo the pin-up at some point (have not sprayed over it yet)




from this pic

[FELINEGUITARS]

Well done Wez - I've stuck to the BYOC stuff so far

I'm a bit worried about the angle of the girls head - think there may be a broken neck involved

[juansolo]

Like it.

I wonder why everyone does a screamer as their first pedal... Just seems one of those universal constants.

[WezV]

well i already have the large beaver and tri boost from BYOC - as well as a few other distortion and overdrive pedals.  Never really owned a tube screamer so it seemed a logical choice

[sgmypod]

I did the rat first the Mouse 2

[Stevepage]

I might have a go at the tubescreamer clone. Would be nice to use something that I put together myself.

[MrBump]

Just ordered me a fuzz and a treble booster!  Bargain at the price, especially given that I'm gonna f*ck them up like I do every self build pedal I attempt...

[BigB]

Like it.

I wonder why everyone does a screamer as their first pedal... Just seems one of those universal constants.

:lol: My first (and only so far) DIY pedal is of course a screamer - and yet I already had an early ('81) TS09.

[juansolo]

It's a massively addictive passtime. Especially when you discover some of the homebrew pedal circuits out there. There are some stormers. I still stand by that the best fuzz out there is a Hot Silicon and some of the valve stuff is incredible (talking about a lot of current draw in the pedal thread, the twincaster that we did pulls 1A just for the heaters). It's also fun to build stuff that you'd never buy, just to see what it does.

[Telerocker]

This picture on the pedal suits rockabilly...  :lol:

[JDC]

One problem though, they say is can be a TS-9 or TS-808 clone but i really dont know which i ended up with, there were parts for both, but only one circuit diagram to follow and it didnt have a title!

If you got parts for both, what do you have spare? A chip and 2 resistors? Really rusty on this, read an insane amount of tubescreamer versions ages ago.

[BigB]

One problem though, they say is can be a TS-9 or TS-808 clone but i really dont know which i ended up with, there were parts for both, but only one circuit diagram to follow and it didnt have a title!

If you got parts for both, what do you have spare? A chip and 2 resistors? Really rusty on this, read an insane amount of tubescreamer versions ages ago.

The chip isn't that important (very few persons would here the difference in a blind test) - the main difference is two resistors values.

[HTH AMPS]

talking about a lot of current draw in the pedal thread, the twincaster that we did pulls 1A just for the heaters

try 12v heaters - you pull half the current (150mA) of 6v heaters (300mA).

[juansolo]

talking about a lot of current draw in the pedal thread, the twincaster that we did pulls 1A just for the heaters

try 12v heaters - you pull half the current (150mA) of 6v heaters (300mA).

Used a pair of 12v 12DW8 in the twincaster. Sourced from car radios in the 50's/60's. 0.45amp draw each. Sound absolutely brilliant in that pedal. Stunning thing. Likened by Mr Twinfan to a gain stage of an amp.

Probably going to do another twincaster at some point with a charge pump to get it up to 80v or so. That'll be fun too. I just need to eat through this backlog of pedals I've got at the moment first.