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How 'bout an OD-1 clone on a Green Bean board?

Started by Rich_S, December 05, 2012, 09:51:11 PM

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I'm obsessed with James Honeyman-Scott's tone on the first two Pretenders albums.  He said in a Guitar Player interview long ago that he used a Boss overdrive, and based on the article's date (and Boss production dates) that points to an OD-1.  No idea which version.

Anyway, I'm not monetarily equipped to buy an original, and building is more fun anyway, so I got the idea to build a dual-opamp OD-1 on a Green Bean board. After reviewing the schematics carefully, I came up with this BOM:



Anybody care to check it for me?

For the time being, I'm planning on building the pedal with the Green Bean's true-bypass scheme.  However, I'm also going to think about a way to keep the buffers active in bypass.  This would require hacking the board to bypass just the guts of the circuit, jumping from Q1's emitter to the input side of C9.

For those with OD-1 experience (originals or clones) what are your thoughts on how the OD-1 compares to modern SD-1s and the whole universe of TS-ish pedals?
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