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Post by bear on Nov 6, 2022 18:48:50 GMT -7
Tool I am getting: capacitance measure My Acoustic Control Corp amp lost its mojo after the recap. The noise is gone but now its not loud anymore. Wack. So I have to retrace my steps and see what the capacitors I replaced actually measure so I can put in the matching rating to bring it back. Suspicion confirmed. The schematic says 50 microFarads so thats what I ordered. The part they used was a 63 mFd but what the fifty year old cap actually reads is 96 mFd. That's why I lost volume. Nope! Bad solder joint from angled insertion of the capacitor into the circuit board. Right as rain now with the 50mFd replacement.
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Post by bear on Nov 6, 2022 19:52:47 GMT -7
I did not discharge the voltage from the caps so that would explain the high readings. Also I put one of the caps in backwards and blew the fuse. Thank you for tuning in to the endless installments of me screwing up.
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Post by bear on Nov 8, 2022 14:38:41 GMT -7
Science. I've got a bag of the correct diodes. Think I'm about to get a Centura... I miss my KTR. upon further research they are not the Klon diodes, a 1N314A made by an undisclosed manufacturer that are no longer available. What I have are a comparable germanium diode, a D9E, which are used in klones and still would sound cool in a Muff too. The plan is to run two in series opposite the normal silicium diode for asymmetrical distortion.
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Post by EllisD on Nov 9, 2022 9:27:26 GMT -7
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Post by EllisD on Nov 9, 2022 9:28:07 GMT -7
@bear you ever build any pedals from scratch?
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Post by EllisD on Nov 9, 2022 9:40:35 GMT -7
Ordered the diy euro kit from Erica but I'd like to build some effects modules to put into the audio chain. Found a few sites with some premade boards I'm looking at.
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Post by bear on Nov 9, 2022 10:12:39 GMT -7
@bear you ever build any pedals from scratch? yep! I've built a few fuzz kits, optical compressor, a digital reverb, and made a few big muff test jigs to work on my variant
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Post by EllisD on Nov 9, 2022 13:45:01 GMT -7
@bear you ever build any pedals from scratch? yep! I've built a few fuzz kits, optical compressor, a digital reverb, and made a few big muff test jigs to work on my variant What's the go to site for kits to build these?
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Post by bear on Nov 9, 2022 14:36:28 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Nov 11, 2022 13:34:33 GMT -7
I got a purple one used
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Post by bear on Nov 11, 2022 14:09:38 GMT -7
Such a good circuit. How I have missed you. Makes a solid state amp sound like a tube amp.
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Post by higs on Nov 11, 2022 14:58:26 GMT -7
Somehow I've never had a klone, or a klon for that matter. I'm curious about the tumnus from wampler and the archer, I prefer the way the silver one sounds, from j rockett.
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Post by bear on Nov 11, 2022 15:20:08 GMT -7
Somehow I've never had a klone, or a klon for that matter. I'm curious about the tumnus from wampler and the archer, I prefer the way the silver one sounds, from j rockett. didn't you have a KTR? Hell sometimes i have to think hard and look at my receipts to see if ive actually owned stuff.. I had a Rimrock Mythical Overdrive and did not care for it. It didn't have that special something that my first KTR had. I even could tell a difference between my second KTR which was an earlier one and I suspect it was from the run where the designer stopped production because they weren't up to his standards. This Centura hits the mark for me so far.
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Post by floyd on Nov 11, 2022 15:47:35 GMT -7
Ben, do you stack with your K-styles or use them as a sweetener between guitar and amp?
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Post by higs on Nov 11, 2022 16:05:46 GMT -7
Somehow I've never had a klone, or a klon for that matter. I'm curious about the tumnus from wampler and the archer, I prefer the way the silver one sounds, from j rockett. didn't you have a KTR? Hell sometimes i have to think hard and look at my receipts to see if ive actually owned stuff.. I had a Rimrock Mythical Overdrive and did not care for it. It didn't have that special something that my first KTR had. I even could tell a difference between my second KTR which was an earlier one and I suspect it was from the run where the designer stopped production because they weren't up to his standards. This Centura hits the mark for me so far. No ktr for me. About the time I realized what they were and started watching them on reverb the prices went way up.
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Post by bear on Nov 11, 2022 18:24:47 GMT -7
Ben, do you stack with your K-styles or use them as a sweetener between guitar and amp? I have it on most of the time near the front of the chain. It does reduce the bass and emphasize the mids like a Tube Screamer so if I don't want that to happen into another pedal such as a Big Muff, that would be the main reason I switch the klon off. I have run them at full drive before, but it gets pretty compressed and I'm a little better now at dialing in the amp to get what i want.
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Post by bear on Nov 13, 2022 17:51:19 GMT -7
Found a bag of germanium diodes that the amp guy gave me in a box of transistors from some old tv/radio repair shop: 1N295. No data sheet available for specs but I read anecdotally it is similar to the other diodes we were talking about 1N314 (1N270 is a substitute) and the Russian D9E
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Post by higs on Nov 13, 2022 19:44:36 GMT -7
I cleaned out the music cave and have been farting around in there. I've been comparing fuzzes and overdrives and distortions. Fun.
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Post by higs on Nov 13, 2022 19:51:59 GMT -7
This thing is huge and loud. It sounds awesome on all four stages with the fuzz maxed out. Muffy. I have to keep the level way down because it's so loud. The box is huge, too.
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Post by phish-bot on Nov 13, 2022 19:53:26 GMT -7
I get a notification every time someone post in this thread, I was going to turn it off but it makes me feel important 😝
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