Are any of the MadBean projects similar to a good old-school Distortion+? Lately, I've been working on learning all the songs on one of my favorite obscure '80s albums, Martha and the Muffins' Danseparc. Their guitar player's dirty tone was classic Distortion+ through a big clean amp: Fender Twin or Roland JC120. Distortion+ through the Jazz Chorus is a great sound. Also, I recently read a great review of Whirlwind's modern take on the Distortion+. It got me interested. My first good pedal was a D+, back in 1977-ish. Wish I still had it, or at least remember what it was like.
The D+ is a simple circuit, easily implemented on perfboard, but I prefer PC board. So, are any of the MadBean clones of booteek pedals, really a clone of a clone of a Distortion+?
If not, any chance we'll see one in the future?
If Brian does not implement anything, I have built a few on General Guitar Gadgets boards. They are great as well. Lots of room for modding.
This is a board I can work on in the near future. Let me look at it and see if I can build come up with something for the Members Projects area.
there is a full kit available at byoc, as well it also builds the dod250 and I would imagine the ross distortion as well. since they are almost identicle.
I'm posting this here as it is not verified. There are no errors found in Eagle so i am confident that it is correct. Whenever i get some time I build and verify it unless someone gets to it before i do. At that point i will post it in the "members project" section. This will fit into a 1590a with side by side 16mm pots.
Project File (https://sites.google.com/a/beejivepedals.com/beejive/home/layouts/D%2BProject.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1)
I haven't built one of these yet but they seem like a nice mild overdrive sound. Something to put in front of a high distorted tube amp to just push it that much further.
http://cgi.ebay.com/MXR-Distortion-II-Model-142-Circuit-Boards-/230626958975?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b2701e7f (http://cgi.ebay.com/MXR-Distortion-II-Model-142-Circuit-Boards-/230626958975?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b2701e7f)
Hmmmm, now I am am thinking I might buy one of those PCBs.
There's a parts layout, partial parts list and schematic out there.
layout http://diystompboxes.com/pedals/COMP2.JPG (http://diystompboxes.com/pedals/COMP2.JPG)
List http://diystompboxes.com/pedals/dist2com.html (http://diystompboxes.com/pedals/dist2com.html)
Schematic http://diystompboxes.com/pedals/dist2.GIF (http://diystompboxes.com/pedals/dist2.GIF)
problem will be the unnamed diodes, which will require some testing. Anyone got some diode suggestions to start with?
my layout (http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=2169.0)has been verified.
I had a buddy in college who played a D+ through a SF Bassman and it was anything but mild! Serious hard rock pedal there.
the distortion+ is an Ironic name....t is indeed on the mild end of the spectrum. I wouldn't put it in the "distortion" category at all. Mild is a very good term for it.