Can confirm this build works. I would recommend changing the 10kA pot for the 5kB pot. The sweep is a little better, but all the fun stuff happens in the last quarter turn of the pot. Great layout and a pretty good sounding circuit!
Built this a while ago and was not impressed. I wanted a fuzzy high gain drive so I boxed this up and damn, this thing is a punk rock machine. Killer. It’s funny how it takes committing and drilling a box before you can really tell what you’ve got. Btdubs, the B5k is just right for the starve function. Thanks for the layout as always.
Obsessed with this thing. Can anyone recommend something else good for noisy punk? Love the amp push sound mixed with the gating and fuzz characteristics. I realized that I don’t play classic rock or doom metal so as much as I love those sounds they don’t quite nail it for someone who’s hero is John Reis instead of Paul Gilbert or whatever. Know what I’m sayin’?
Love John Reis as well! But his sound (In Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes) is more of a cranked amp or just a regular distortion - it's all in the dissonant playing.
If you want totally chaotic sound that will make people go "What the fuck! Is that actually coming from a guitar?" try the Fairfield Unpleasant Surprise, Parasit Into The Unknown or Spaceman Effects Sputnik II.
Every DBA I try is lackluster. As I gather is most folks experience. I may try it anyway. Loved the red/blue card until I realized how damn dark it is. I am going to make that punkifier. Funny you should suggest it. I also am planning on giving the Parasite Dogboy a shot. Thanks for the suggestions.
Haha yeah I know. Agree with you love Jehu and Hot Snakes. I was using him as a general example. I’ve owned an unpleasant Surprise for years. Love Fairfield. I play everything paired with a Barbershop. Favorite OD. I’ll check out the Sputnik and the Parasite. Thanks homes.
Love the Barbershop as well. That and a Hudson Broadcast are the drives on my board. You're welcome! Oh yeah, also check out the Dwarfcraft Devices stuff The Great Destroyer (glitchy/starved "fuzz"), Robot Devil (glitchy, starved "fuzz" with cool, sloppy octave) and She Fuzz (thick, velcro-y fuzz with a screeching noise footswitch)
I built the she and the great destroyer. They’re currently living in a cardboard box. I’m going to keep messing with them. The robot devil I plan on trying but need parts. The noisy stuff is never as noisy as it should be when I build it. I guess it’s a fine line when making an essentially broken circuit sound predictably “bad”. I’ve wanted to try the Broadcast and that Benson preamp is sexy too. All good suggestions. You’ve got my number.
Yeah, had issues with both the She Fuzz and the Great Destroyer at first, too. Especially the Great Destroyer is notorious - the whole circuit was a mistake to begin with, the original designer swapping the CMOS IC in the very basic Tube Sound Fuzz with the wrong one. Thus, it's super sensitive to the actual chip used.
Can confirm the Robot Devil works exactly as advertised, tho. It does the "noise crickets" that The Great Destroyer does PLUS two suboctaves. Heavy AF.
The Broadcast is based on an old RCA preamp, so it's not your typical drive sound. Which is why I like it. Germanium transistors <3 The Benson on the other hand "just" a JFET-replaces-tubes preamp emulation of the preamp in one of Benson's boutique amps - apparently very close to a Marshall plexi preamp (like Wampler Plexidrive). Decent sounding, but not all it's hyped up to be, imo.
I ordered the transformer for the Broadcast. Don’t have a lot to choose from for the germ trans. But hopefully I’ll get it sounding good. Might bypass the volt converter. Is it worth waiting to make the 24v version? I don’t have a 1054 on hand and I gather that a 1044 won’t do. I even paid out for shipping from Banzai to get the proper 4049 for the destroyer. It sounds great but not authentic. I’ll probably box it up anyway.
Fired right up! Tag it. Thanks fuzzhead!
ReplyDeleteThat was fast! Tagged.
DeleteCan confirm this build works. I would recommend changing the 10kA pot for the 5kB pot. The sweep is a little better, but all the fun stuff happens in the last quarter turn of the pot. Great layout and a pretty good sounding circuit!
ReplyDeleteLove this pedal, simple and sounds fab!!!
ReplyDeleteJust built this. It's a funny one!
ReplyDeleteMild overdrive with a fuzzy undercurrent...when you up the starve it gets fuzzy, but super gated .
Thank you 😊😊😊
Built this a while ago and was not impressed. I wanted a fuzzy high gain drive so I boxed this up and damn, this thing is a punk rock machine. Killer. It’s funny how it takes committing and drilling a box before you can really tell what you’ve got.
ReplyDeleteBtdubs, the B5k is just right for the starve function. Thanks for the layout as always.
Obsessed with this thing. Can anyone recommend something else good for noisy punk? Love the amp push sound mixed with the gating and fuzz characteristics. I realized that I don’t play classic rock or doom metal so as much as I love those sounds they don’t quite nail it for someone who’s hero is John Reis instead of Paul Gilbert or whatever. Know what I’m sayin’?
ReplyDeleteCan't on top of my head remind me something close to the sounds of this circuit...
DeleteMaybe DBA Absolute Destruction, DBA White Card or DOD Punkifier?
Love John Reis as well! But his sound (In Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes) is more of a cranked amp or just a regular distortion - it's all in the dissonant playing.
DeleteIf you want totally chaotic sound that will make people go "What the fuck! Is that actually coming from a guitar?" try the Fairfield Unpleasant Surprise, Parasit Into The Unknown or Spaceman Effects Sputnik II.
Every DBA I try is lackluster. As I gather is most folks experience. I may try it anyway. Loved the red/blue card until I realized how damn dark it is. I am going to make that punkifier. Funny you should suggest it. I also am planning on giving the Parasite Dogboy a shot. Thanks for the suggestions.
ReplyDeleteHaha yeah I know. Agree with you love Jehu and Hot Snakes. I was using him as a general example. I’ve owned an unpleasant Surprise for years. Love Fairfield. I play everything paired with a Barbershop. Favorite OD. I’ll check out the Sputnik and the Parasite. Thanks homes.
ReplyDeleteLove the Barbershop as well. That and a Hudson Broadcast are the drives on my board.
DeleteYou're welcome! Oh yeah, also check out the Dwarfcraft Devices stuff The Great Destroyer (glitchy/starved "fuzz"), Robot Devil (glitchy, starved "fuzz" with cool, sloppy octave) and She Fuzz (thick, velcro-y fuzz with a screeching noise footswitch)
Parasit. Thanks auto correct.
ReplyDeleteI built the she and the great destroyer. They’re currently living in a cardboard box. I’m going to keep messing with them. The robot devil I plan on trying but need parts. The noisy stuff is never as noisy as it should be when I build it. I guess it’s a fine line when making an essentially broken circuit sound predictably “bad”. I’ve wanted to try the Broadcast and that Benson preamp is sexy too. All good suggestions. You’ve got my number.
ReplyDeleteYeah, had issues with both the She Fuzz and the Great Destroyer at first, too. Especially the Great Destroyer is notorious - the whole circuit was a mistake to begin with, the original designer swapping the CMOS IC in the very basic Tube Sound Fuzz with the wrong one. Thus, it's super sensitive to the actual chip used.
ReplyDeleteCan confirm the Robot Devil works exactly as advertised, tho. It does the "noise crickets" that The Great Destroyer does PLUS two suboctaves. Heavy AF.
The Broadcast is based on an old RCA preamp, so it's not your typical drive sound. Which is why I like it. Germanium transistors <3
The Benson on the other hand "just" a JFET-replaces-tubes preamp emulation of the preamp in one of Benson's boutique amps - apparently very close to a Marshall plexi preamp (like Wampler Plexidrive). Decent sounding, but not all it's hyped up to be, imo.
I ordered the transformer for the Broadcast. Don’t have a lot to choose from for the germ trans. But hopefully I’ll get it sounding good. Might bypass the volt converter. Is it worth waiting to make the 24v version? I don’t have a 1054 on hand and I gather that a 1044 won’t do.
ReplyDeleteI even paid out for shipping from Banzai to get the proper 4049 for the destroyer. It sounds great but not authentic. I’ll probably box it up anyway.
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