Gudday all.
Here's Darth Punk, a modified Distortion+ with a clean blend as it will be a bass drive for a friend's son.
- Mods: LED pair in the opamp feedback loop, pair of Bat46 clipping to ground. The blend is a pcb I got from someone here.
This was going to be a X-fuzz, but it was a bit noisier than I liked, but I'd already drilled and finished the box so I needed a 2 knob drive I could use with a blend. I'd heard the Dist+ was pretty good with LEDs, but I wasn't impressed with them going to ground so I tried them in the loop.... and holy hell does it sound good with them there. From there it was a case of trying different diodes to ground. I tried bat46, 1n4148, 1n270 and the LEDs, and decided to settle on the bat46, although they all sounded pretty good. 1n4148s sucked too much signal out iirc and I couldn't get unity.
It's not often I build something and decide that I'll do another, but I'm going to build one of these for my next bass multi.
I had an issue with the first split/blend board on vero in that it seemed to suck something out of the signal, so I tried a pcb I got on these forums a year or two ago and it worked really well until I did something trimming leads and I didn't get any clean signal in the blend. I swapped the pcb out for another and it works great. This is a really cool sounding bass drive.
I did the graphics in photoshop, adding the spikes to Darth's head.
The guts are a bit messy, but hey, it's half vero and two circuits.