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I've been talking with some dudes on the Gilmour forum and they like to place the Mistress in a parallel blender. On the MB Current Lover, how would you achieve a dry kill option? I remember Scruffie talking about the 60/40 blend that is crucial to the Mistress sound. Was it set by a resister value?

I'm an international customer from Canada. Not that far away but... the postage price says it all. They completely sent the wrong components on an order, wasn't a big deal as the project was on the back-burner already. It seems like my emails were also on the back-burner, however, the squeaky wheel gets the grease! All is well and the issue is resolved. First problem in about 2 years ordering from them. I've re-read the emails and it does seem like the customer service folks sign off with their initials. I never noticed that before. Everybody seems to have assumed that everyone else had taken care of the issue by just speed reading the email exchange, and here I thought that I had been communicating with just one person. Patience prevails.

Hi folks, just curious if any of you know whether or not Steve has employees that are handling the emails at Smallbear, or does he do this himself? I'm not terribly upset at the moment as I know mistakes happen from time to time (this thread is not an angry rant), I'm just trying to determine what the next step would be to have a shipping error resolved is... as it's dragging on a bit. I'm not sure whether I've been communicating with Steve or an employee. Thoughts?

Cool, PM'd. I agree, the SD-1 sounds great as is! I'd like to tweak some of the components though, especially the opamp, caps, and perhaps the diodes. True bypass wouldn't hurt either.

Thanks for the links. I looked at the plethora of overdrive projects offered at Aion. I think the Corona is only for the OD-1, not the SD-1.

https://aionelectronics.com/project/corona-boss-od1-overdrive/

Digging in to the Stratus build doc, it looks like you can indeed do the SD-1 on that board. Curious if anyone here has done so?

https://aionelectronics.com/project/stratus-ibanez-ts9-od808-tube-screamer/

Just picked up a Boss Super Overdrive SD-1 for like $20. I kinda dig it! Are there currently any projects for the SD-1 kicking around? Is Aion's Tube Screamer board a possible candidate? The SD-1 sounds like a warmer version of the Cornish SS-2/Duplex Drive with less bass.

What does the transformer "do" in this circuit?

Snagged one at Long & McQuade in Canada today... just couldn't pass it up after seeing this thread. Of all the styles I wound up jamming with a Country drummer for about an hour, it was fun. Lots to learn about that little box. I found it sounded best in a TB loop sitting behind a buffer. Oh, and one more thing... it's got a lot of juice. Don't turn it on unless your rhythm section has their volumes on minimum.

You guys ever try this thing? I just got the mid 80s "black box" version in a trade and it sounds spectacular. I've dialed it in to my usual Mistress settings and almost prefer it over the Current Lover. Haven't look under the hood but I think these had the SAD1024 chip... what a great chip for flanging. Is the Ross another MXR clone or is it something original?

Well I picked it up for a decent kijiji price... and it rocks! The digital stuff is OK at best, but the distortion is amazing with a Seymour Duncan SSL-5 in the bridge position of a Strat. This needs to be cloned. Any schems floating around? I haven't found any.

Lol! Thanks for the reply. I have also been exploring the Boss "back catalogue" as it were. The made in Japan stuff  is pretty good, especially the CS-2, CE-2, and DD2. Right now I'm super curious about how the MZ-2 sounds in stereo more than anything, as I just set up a new stereo rig.

Has anyone looked under the hood of the Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer? Any idea if the distortion circuit is an adapted version of an older Boss classic or unique to the pedal? I found one local for cheap and thought it may be worth a look. Here is a clip from Kitrae with just the distortion into a Fender Twin:

http://www.kitrae.net/music/MP3/Purple%20Rain%20solo_2_EMG%20Strat_MZ-2_TD_CE-2_Twin%20Reverb.mp3

*Just noticed there may be a Tube Driver and CE-2 on there as well

Thanks for the tips fellas, much appreciated. Good stuff to think about for sure.

I'm trying to avoid purchasing the voltage doubler and polarity reversal cables. In the past I have found them to be problematic, ie: finicky... don't bump them. It would work of course, but I do have the EHX wallwart. Getting very close to finishing a big pedalboard revision and am nearly done. I just sold my voodoo labs supplies and went with the Zuma for the 500mA specs. Hoping to get a few THCustoms Tube Drivers in there before the end of the year. Without the "courtesy AC plug" on the VL PP2+ I may need to find room for a power bar... trying to avoid that too lol.

I sent them an email and they got back to me fairly quick. Long story short they don't recommend it as it was never designed to run pedals, just to daisy chain their other units. I think you can link quite a few together, up to 6 by the looks of it. It is 24v DC center positive, but only has one stage of filtering. The 9, 12, and 18v taps have an extra filtering stage between them and the 24v DC (rails?). They mentioned that they did test this and found it to work, but mentioned that it could be noisy depending on the pedal and that it voids the warranty if anything went wrong in the process.