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Okay how should I decipher which may be the right type of part?? like .47uf provides several thousand different results .. scary ..

Okay so here's my next question. I'm at the point of ordering parts. I was going to buy them from small bear but I'm afraid of receiving the parts without any part names on them. I'm thinking of getting the parts that I need for the DS-1 project I want to do and the Green Bean from Mouser (or some other place recommended), but I wanted to know what the difference is between all these parts? for example I'll type in .47uf into the search and a billion results show up for the capacitors. small bear gave me a SKU number for a Capacitor, Panasonic ECQ-V (.047 mf.), but I was wondering does it matter if I get a different kind/how do I know what is okay? this is the list for the DS-1 mod I want to do btw.

C1, C10, C11----0.047mF SKU 1101B
C2----0.68mF SKU 1105
C3, C5----0.068mF SKU 1150
C4----470pF SKU 1101
C8----0.47mF SKU 1105
C9----0.47mF
C12, C13----0.1mF 1101B
C14----1mF NP (non-polarized) SKU 1106
47pF cap across the clipping diodes. SKU 1311

R13---2.7K
R39---20K
R16----1.5K (could wire a 2K or 5K pot here for a mid control)
R11---33K (lowers gain)(stock is 100K)
R9----1K (lowers gain, lower value = more gain)(stock is 22ohms)
R17---6.1K

D4---3mm Water Clear High Brightness Red LED SKU 2304

in series with 20K resistor, 1N270 SKU 2201

Select using a DPDT (on-on) SKU 0220

You can add another diode in series with either D4 or D5 for asymmetrical clipping. Its an interesting little addition try it

R35---2.2K
5mm Water Clear High Brightness Blue LED (this is a new check LED) SKU 2302

it was taken from the "Ultimate DS-1" mod thread in a google search


P.S. was anybody able to figure out what to do with R9 on the green bean mod?

Awesome!! I'm at work so i'm just glancing at this for a second, but when I get home I'm going to look at this in detail and try to absorb it haha, and then purchase these parts. I'm so stoked to make a pedal that sounds great .. kinda feel the way I did when I got my first guitar . Thank you guys again for all the help. I'm really gracious the pedal modding community is so helpful and encouraging.

Thanks Charlie.. i'm definitely going to quadruple check the parts and get spares. I'm getting interested in doing this modification. What do you think about it? I'm having trouble finding the parts I would need to get to do it instead of the stock parts. What are your thoughts?

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=363310

http://revolutiondeux.blogspot.com/2008/03/clay-jones-od-grandlaff-dynnamic.html

Thank you guys so much for your help so far. I wrote in this forum without much other than a stroke of inspiration to start understanding how to build pedals. I've done a lot of research since yesterday and feel a little more comfortable with searching for parts (the whole mF/uF had me confused for a tiny bit). I emailed the owner of small bear and he suggested that I purchase a tweak-o to start out with... although I kind of want to save the cash and just play it very carefully with the Bean. What do you guys think?

awesome! i was just looking at SB and am starting to understand the parts. How much did your pedal cost to build from scratch? I see people trying to sell TS808 clone kits for around 80 but I assume it'd be much cheaper to buy all the parts individually right?

Thank you Cliff, I assumed that was the case. I want to make a Green Bean. Now it's time for the scary task of finding the parts online

Hey so this may be one of the most if not the most noob question on the entire forum, but I am about to buy a green bean board and am now wondering what am I to do from here. I know i need to source all the parts (which at the moment seems like a very daunting task), but once I recieve the parts, do I need to find some sort of instruction manual with step by steps on how to assemble the parts? Or do instructions come with the board? Like I said, I am as new as it comes so I hope this question doesn't offend anyone here. I'm just a poor kid wanting to save as much money as possible while making awesome sounds .

Curious... also I was looking at http://forums.vintageamps.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=88362 and someone was saying something about the Landgraff clone which is supposed to be awesome. I was wondering if anyone had any input on the notion of that pedal. Would I need to get different parts (I'm assuming yes... and wondering what parts instead of what).

All feedback is greatly appreciated.