Treble booster vs Boost with 3-knob EQ

TTBZ

rze99 said:

A slightly different take....  I couldn't make the Treble Booster thing work for me the way I liked but I am chuffed to bits with my Drybell Unit67 pedal, which is a booster, upper mid-rangemaster, eq and compressor pedal in one. It's fab.

The Pete Thorn demo is excellent

https://youtu.be/P8pgByNOWo8

I've been thinking I should get one of these for a while, seems like the perfect "always on" pedal. Shame the rangemaster isn't on its own footswitch to bring it in/out as another boost but still a cool sounding pedal. 

Yorkie

Where can one get nice thick protoboards, preferably green? the orange ones I've got lying around are a bit bent :-/ 

Cookiemonster

Yorkie said:

Where can one get nice thick protoboards, preferably green? the orange ones I've got lying around are a bit bent :-/ 

Not sure on the green and are you looking for perf or vero ? 

Bitsbox is a good site 

tagboard is another option. It’s fun to build on and this is a simple circuit 

Cookiemonster

bohemianbuoy said:

Nice layout. 

Cookiemonster

Another option is to buy a pcb from otagia super cheap

Yorkie

Cookiemonster said:

Yorkie said:

Where can one get nice thick protoboards, preferably green? the orange ones I've got lying around are a bit bent :-/ 

Not sure on the green and are you looking for perf or vero ? 

Bitsbox is a good site 

tagboard is another option. It’s fun to build on and this is a simple circuit 

Perf. I know bitsbox (love it), but I don’t think they have those now. 

Edit: I've visited the relevant section instead of searching for boards, and they do have exactly what I want. Amazing!

Yorkie

Ordered the parts off bitsbox at 2pm, all stuff shipped at 4pm. What a great resource. 

ElectricXII

@Yorkie I fancy having a go at building one too, but I've only ever built a pedal from a kit. It would be great if you could post a few updates with pics of your build. 

Yorkie

ElectricXII said:

@Yorkie I fancy having a go at building one too, but I've only ever built a pedal from a kit. It would be great if you could post a few updates with pics of your build. 

Absolutely, more than happy to share the fun with you. 

Yorkie

Full marks for Bitsbox. I’ve received my stuff a mere 21 hours after pressing the button. 

The green perfboards look _excellent_ — way better than the orange ones I had lying around. 

Cookiemonster

Yorkie said:

Full marks for Bitsbox. I’ve received my stuff a mere 21 hours after pressing the button. 

The green perfboards look _excellent_ — way better than the orange ones I had lying around. 

They are just superb for shipping, fuzzdog is also great usually for shipping. 

Gapco is good for enclosures 

Yorkie

Cookiemonster said:

Yorkie said:

Full marks for Bitsbox. I’ve received my stuff a mere 21 hours after pressing the button. 

The green perfboards look _excellent_ — way better than the orange ones I had lying around. 

They are just superb for shipping, fuzzdog is also great usually for shipping. 

Gapco is good for enclosures 

FuzzDog is very dependable. I remember that time when I had to replace a small 5K reverse log pot in a Box of Rock build... I got a replacement from Lee in 24h. 

I've had a look at those Gapco enclosures; cheap and cheerful. Do they look like the Hammond originals, or are the curved corners a little bit different, etc? All my other handmade pedals are in Hammond cases, and I like 'sameness'.

Yorkie

Ok, silicon treble booster done. Sounds good, although due to time pressures I could only test it through a micro cube. Can’t wait to push the AC15 with it. 

Yorkie

I have run it into the Vox AC15 for a few minutes this morning. Sounds pleasingly mids- and treble-rich, but there's very little volume on tap – I could not overdrive the normal channel, which usually gets there already at noon. Any idea what could be wrong? Disclaimer: I had to sub R3 for 122K (originally 120K) and R7 for 2.2K (originally 2.4K).  

bohemianbuoy

Did you build the Beavis schematic? I need to get mine out and see if it shares your issues, though I don't remember it struggling for volume. You definitely used a 2N5088? I think if I were looking to add volume I'd start by reducing R7. Maybe build the circuit again on a breadboard and try lower resistors in that place of the 2.4K - though you say you had to use 2.2K, so my thinking is perhaps wide of the mark.

Yorkie

Thanks! Yes, definitely a 2N5088. The circuit is still on the breadboard, so I can still tweak it easily. 
One other thing I need to try is a different (ie not made by me) cable, because I don't remember having volume issues when I ran this into the Micro Cube with commercial cables.

bohemianbuoy

Defintely worth checking with the commercial cables - could be as simple as that.

I once breadboarded a wah circuit, tested it, no sound, checked voltages, all seemed okay, still no sound. Took it all off the breadboard and started again, tested it, no sound, not even when bypassed. Then, it hit me - the volume knob on my guitar was set to '0'. A quick turn to 10 and there was glorious wah sounds.

Cookiemonster

Yorkie said:

Cookiemonster said:

Yorkie said:

Full marks for Bitsbox. I’ve received my stuff a mere 21 hours after pressing the button. 

The green perfboards look _excellent_ — way better than the orange ones I had lying around. 

They are just superb for shipping, fuzzdog is also great usually for shipping. 

Gapco is good for enclosures 

FuzzDog is very dependable. I remember that time when I had to replace a small 5K reverse log pot in a Box of Rock build... I got a replacement from Lee in 24h. 

I've had a look at those Gapco enclosures; cheap and cheerful. Do they look like the Hammond originals, or are the curved corners a little bit different, etc? All my other handmade pedals are in Hammond cases, and I like 'sameness'.

They are pretty good for the price, I’ve had no issues, I do tend to go for powder coated 125b from Tayda now though. 

Cookiemonster

Yorkie said:

Ok, silicon treble booster done. Sounds good, although due to time pressures I could only test it through a micro cube. Can’t wait to push the AC15 with it. 

Maybe play around with the bias

https://www.electrosmash.com/dallas-rangemaster

probs a silly question but is the transistor the right way round 

Yorkie

Ok. Tested again with the commercial cables and there does seem to be a tad more signal. Brought the AC15 to the edge of breakup, then plugged the treble booster and played for half an hour until the battery died  

What is a bit less clear to me is whether this sounds sufficiently different to the Top Boost channel on its own. Probably not