Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write such kind words Paul. IM glad you dig the humor. Its hard to keep electronics from being boring as hell especially if the video is this long. Hahaha.
@@heavymetalATCit takes me a couple of goes to get through the videos but they’re invaluable. Since I first watched I’ve actually started having a go blending some kit pedals and whipping pickups in and out of my guitars. Thanks again.
It is a cold & rainy morning, I've got the coffee going and this epic video playing, and you kept my interest the whole dad-blamed way, I even learned many things that I did not know. Thank you, Mr. Clementine!
This is the best guitar content I've seen in ages! Love it. That fuzz circuit you showed in the beginning of the video was nasty as hell too. Need to put that together myself.
Well I finally subscribed. I love your approach to all this stuff and appreciate that you are clear about the fact that the only way to do something cool is to try a bunch of stuff and see what happens.
This was an amazing video. Thanks for the walk thou. You helped explain a lot on testing and working throughout the circuit process. Keep up the good work
Thank you so much Erick. Hey you want to see something Crazy? Post that schematic in an electronics forum. Apparently it "cant work" LOLOLOLOL yep like neodymium pickups suck? I love that. Maybe your electronic text book says it wont work but I have ears and I made it do exactly what I wanted it to. Hahahaha
@@heavymetalATC That's hilarious! Is it the positive ground-to-sleeve trick that makes it impossible? 'Cause that's some wizardry, right there, I gotta say. Oh, and I meant to add: LOVE chicken heads. I put 'em on everything I can. Only tumbling dice look cooler/more ridiculous.
Military series was marked with ♦(not red -- just a contour). Was called "military acceptance". There also were some series that weren't be in the mass distribution: МП11, МП14 for example. But that rhomb sign is mandatory for any electronics for the army. Those accepted parts though was used in civil too.
I recommend building a simple jig for pots and solder wires to them to connect to the bread. Super comfy to tweak sound. I just took a beer box, cut holes for pots and put the breadboard inside the box and I have a setup that won't disconnect and make funny while I test stuff.
If you want even MORE balls out of it, move the output cap to the c / b10k junction instead. That will give a substantial volume boost that will be independent of the bias pot settings. Did it on the schizoid face and skydog fuzzes, you can even use a fs to toggle between them for a " lead boost".
Do you mean attaching the output cap to one of the sides of the bias pot instead of the wiper like he has? If so, I'm guessing you mean grounding it (i.e., before the bias pot in the circuit in the schematic as drawn) because it would be independent of the bias settings. I'm still learning electronics, so go easy on me lol. I found an old tin box of my dad's components from the 60s and there's dozens of germaniums in there....time to make some mojo!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment Terry. Yes Petey was very kind to send me these. After a good bit of tinkering I got it to dance the way I wanted.
I built a fuzz with those ufo Russians years ago and was blown away. I believe I built it into Madneans Cosmpolitan. I don’t remember what part number it was though, could you let us know?
Bro when converting pnp to npn, you gotta flip the electros and any diodes polarities as well as the power supply. You CAN run pnp's in an npn circuit, sometimes, if the transistor is buffered by caps at all points, the q won't care, as jack orman pointed out on amz years ago... but it often will become unstable when you turn your gtr down or off, where it sounds like either tunable oscillation or detuned radio static crossed with mating water buffallo. Dude, digging this vid...peace
The song you keep playing at 5:40 reminds me of The Weight by The Band. Very cool videos! I watched all the way to the end and I do have a short attention span. The pedal sounds fantastic my friend. I started breadboarding because of your earlier videos but set it down for a little while. I’m in the middle of a remodel and it’s taking longer than I originally thought it would. Can’t wait to get back to it though. I found a organ for free on market place and I was able to scavenge tons of parts from it, including some really cool looking germanium diodes as well as sprauge caps. I built a simple distortion circuit with the germanium diodes and it sounded godly. I too was at the kitchen table for at least 10 hours tweaking my circuit and driving my wife crazy before I came to some sort of ear pleasing conclusion. Also check out the electro harmonix pedal called the Germanium Overdrive! It reminds me a lot like what you got going on here. It has an adjustable voltage and bias pot to mimic a dying battery sound if you want. I love the way that pedal sounds in demo and I might try your design because it’s similar.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment Josh. Good ear yes that is a very similar riff if not identical. Its one of those old standard blues moves used a lot the motown and soul music era. Jimi used those chord shapes quite a bit one more modern example is Pearl Jam Yellow Ledbetter.
Man oh man, what incredible variation with that! I want to build one of these and put it on my Orange Crush 12 which has separate OD and gain knobs already at the end of its chain! Hell, I bet it would sound great on my old Marlboro G20R which has a tremolo and reverb. I wonder if you have any resources about sourcing parts and whatnot for a total novice (who is also poor!) like me? As always, thank you for your wonderful work. You're hilarious and a wealth of knowledge.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment SGR. I am glad you like the results according to regular "electronics teachings" this circuit "cant work" so win one for the HACK boys.
Thank you so much Pizza master. Heres the funny part I was told this circuit "cannot work" by educated electronics builders... yeah and neodymium pickups suck too right? Hahaha It sounds like it works to me.
Hey man, thanks for this. I dialed it in on the breadboard using some Soviet NPN Ge’s (yours looked like MP6A, I’ve got MP10A, 35, 36A, and 37s) and it sounds better than any of the (many) previous Rangemaster-like circuits I’ve attempted. Would you happen to have a strip, vero, or tagboard layout you could share? I really want to box it up so I can use it away from my bench but haven’t really spent time converting schematics to layouts. If not, no worries. If so, that would be righteous. Great vid. Thanks a lot. Keep rockin’ 🤙
I love it! Nice design brother, I also have one of those amps. It sounds great with pedals or without, but I have a two amp pedal board. One "clean" side and one "nasty" side. I also picked up a volume pedal! I love your videos. Keep up the cool work... I GET IT! Chicken heads RULE
i got a guy who goes by CMC effects to build me a rangemaster with a knob that sweeps the lower cutoff frequency of the boost. it's my favorite pedal. i can use it to make any amp sound like any other amp. i can get the low end on my jcm800 so fat it sounds like an orange. i can get my champ to sound like its my jcm800 (or an orange) obviously i'm talking about getting the lows and mids positioned in terms of coping another amps sound with the rangemaster, because you're still stuck with the gain structure of the rangemaster and the amp you have and there will always be that germanium color to a germanium pedal like that, but it's still fucking mindblowing. it's like having an EQ pedal, massive DB boost, and something that makes cool germanium textures all in one box. get one while you can still get ahold of germaniums. i also got a tonebender mkii from that guy, that thing rips. it's like a fuzz face but more crazy. lots of gain and low end.
i never thought to wire the power to the bottom of the breadboard and the led trick is also something theft worthy . i remember building the devils triangle sequencer and i spent 12 hours on the jumpers and cuts alone = prepping the veroboard . i built one it worked , wanted another so that time it was 4 , 3 where bad . i had bad jfets on the sputnik 2 millenium bypas that ruined my life . this digitech multiplay had a twisted electro cap that shorted itself that took me 6 months to find . i was praying and laying on hands about to bust out the snakes when i cought that one . its covered in extra switches jacks and knobs , modded 6 ways from sunday now . at that point you have to play the patient mans game . stuff like bad jfets , incorrect pinouts , or my FAVORITE when people post BAD layouts that do not work but they write "verified " on them . i could give you a LIST. the Ethereum spring reverb or what ever that jerk called it - he was selling pcbs that didnt work . imagine that , and there was no apparent way to fix them . the company who printed the pcbs alerted me . then the guy said " i never said i was an electronics expert" ... we'll there is the fact that you call yourself quantem effects and you have that logo with the molecules humping each other - that kind of implys a FEW things but ahem ... we built three of them and all of them where dead as ducks , i asked gomti nicely to pull another BOM @ 3 am and i had the VERO BUILD populated and running in time to leave for UP michigan at 7 am the next morning.... that spring reverb lives in a jfet marshal superbass 100 clone (class d) with internal li ion battery pack , its a killer amp - i know what you like you would love that circuit - -best low gain tone i ever heard out of a solid state and for diy its a high mark... but talk about frustrating- building something 4 times to get a working proto. thanks for mentioning me in this one , i am learning a lot and enjoying it quite a bit and will comment more . i tried pad per hole one time and i was cloning someone elses circuit , it was like a 555 noise oscillator ( call one of those circuits a "SYNTH" in my presence and expect a hardy SLAP) i hated pad per hole , as close as i have come is using those old rat shack pcb blanks that have the ic chip alotment in the center but... i got good at vero ... the image you showed isnt even my best work , i have some vero sh@t that is museum piece , you could eat off them ! well maybe do your hair . i get robo soldering with reflow techniques , then usin flux . Donna and i enjoyed the drillin the box segment - we dont get to see fancy drill press in action much ! such an enjoyable and informative entertaining video pal !! shoulda known better to NOT use that old fouled part - man thats JUST what i was saying cuzz i do the same thing all the time ... the thing is its like i will always know what i am doing is dumb but i do it anyway to be cheap . - instant regret .
Thank you so much for all the kind words Petey. I am a hack and I don't really know what I'm doing but I can always seems to get the desired results through persistence and I try to share my experiences and small bits of info i pick up in the process with others. Here's something funny... I posted this schematic on the pedal forum on Facebook apparently it "cant work" Yep and Neodymium is no good for pickups right? Hahaha According to the guys with education in electronics it is impossible because I have no voltage on the base of the first transistor. I'm like guys Ive built that gain stage many times its how I test the sound of germanium transistors it works I have video proof. They are like well thats not how a transistor works its a 1 off fluke... unrepeatable. I'm like nope Ive done this many times bread board it and see it works every-time. "Ahh well you arent educated in electronics at all are you" Nope and thats why I did something that "cant work" and got the sound I wanted from simply spending time stabbing parts and switching circuits till it did what I was after. LOL I love that kinda stuff. That guy smartly said some remark like "well you must have made a new scientific discovery and need a Nobel prize" I don't need your book to tell me what my guitar sounds like. Its got a hell of an output for something that "cant work". So apparently this is a "bad schematic" Obviously it works though? Anyway, I can totally see the benefits of using strip-board for building complicated layouts but I am too much of the lazy hack to sit there and figure out my own layout on it. I like to just go any which way that suits me. Now tag board, turret board and terminal strip thats something I could really get behind but its too damn high. I used turret board in that champ clone and it was a dream soooo easy soooo simple. You seem to really have some stern ideas about not calling an oscillator a synthesizer? Whats up with that Petey? When does it become a synth? I mean Is it a synth if you add a filter? DX7 doesn't have a filter. Does it need ADSR? Monotron duo doesnt have an ADSR but it has 2 VCOs and a VCF and it says synthesizer right on it LOL what about a keyboard? Buchla resisted adding a keyboard. Gakken has LFO, ADSR and VCF but only 1 VCO and no keyboard it says synthesizer on it too Hahaha Just messin with you bro... pokin the bear. Thank you for watching Petey. I did know better than to use that old pot but you know how it goes I was like hell I'll just use it up, this is my own pedal it'll be fine, nope. I will tell you 1 thing this video took a long ass time to record and longer to edit, hell it took 2 days to upload. wooh Im glad thats all behind me. You guys take it easy and stay cool i think im gonna rest a while now.
i have been looking at rangemaster stuff . about to start building some . i have three pcbs . two from tayda , and one from general gutiar gadgets someone gave me these ! so the ggg one i will use with a 9 volt battery internal to solve the charge pump issue . then i was looking at input cap selector ideas , i considered using a rotary switch as i have a bunch of those from pull outs of computer switch boxs . i think i am boing to try a cap blend .with a pot . settling on 4500pf - 47nf - i have to see . i see the dam red rooster has 4700pf to a 2.2uf , and another guy had a 1uf ... i am gonna make a silicon transistor version and a germanium . amp "buildin" is by FAR my favorite things . i mean i try to not say build , i prefer hack or slap together because i try to keep it real , especially when i am typically using a chinesium class d amp board ... but yeah i came back to this video for reference today .and to see me again on the BIG SCREEN ! ty :)
Wheres that gd vid with the huge ghetto-style plate reverb setup and lots of good information on doing crazy shit with speaker coils? Also, is that amp build you mentioned in this vid out here somewhere?
Would you know anything on how to make a phase inverting ABY pedal? I really want to find out if a wah will sound like a phaser of the signal is phase inverterd, but the cheapest pedal I can find still costs 70€ used
Wish you could show us a cool way to make one of those ultra rare 70’s Foxx phasers Brian May used to use back then. Supposedly, nothing has come close to recreating it’s magic, even Foxx reissues. I’m poor and stupid, so I’d love to figure out aan affordable way to recreate it. Thanks! Love ur channel!
Thank you for watching and taking the time to write such a kid and informative comment Alyson. Yeah I always get that stuff mixed up with nf and up and pf and.. all that. thanks.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment Chris. Yes I did provide a schematic. Just know though that if you want to be called a fool and a liar post that schematic in a forum or group. Apparently it "cant work" because it has no base voltage on the first stage but as you can see and hear I was getting TONS of gain so??? I guess hack style wins over school again. LOL
Hey you're a Lefty like me,now it all makes sense,unless the camera is flipping the image, search RU-vid DIY wooden drill press vice, pedal sounds amazing i want one and one of those tube pre-amp ones too
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment General. Yes its getting harder by the day. I have found one good way to get Ge transistors is to buy old transistor radios and tape machines, cb radios, scanners etc. from thrift stores. I can pretty much look at something and know if its got germanium in it and if I'm in doubt I smell it. I cant smell the germanium transistors themselves but that age of electronics (late 50s to mid 60s) has a smell. I don't know how to describe it but Its pretty recognizable if you have smelled it before its a sour metallic old grease smell, 70s electronics smell different they have kinda a melted plastic and a hint of citrus. Im not being cheeky here either after a while of messing with old junk youll learn the smell. The old tube stuff smells like burning grandma and mothballs and if its got selenium rectifiers it makes a wild strong petroleum smell. Damn i went on a tangent there... old equipment at thrift stores sometimes has germanium in it. LOL
Depends where you live I suppose as easyish to get here in the UK but whilst I get the 'Mojo' thankfully you can't get them as easy anymore, unreliable, unstable crap electronic parts, even more so now 50yrs later, it's pure luck if you get a usable batch.
Thank you so much for watching and taking an interest in this build Brian. I'm not really building for the public at this time but it is something I do plan on easing into pretty heavy over the next few years as I finally have a decent workshop situation now. ok so at 19:13 in the video it does show the schematic I used exactly. I understand you were probably wanting something like a stripboard or parts layout. I had a viewer email me showing stripboard layout copy that he created but I am unaware if it is publicly available on the layout websites? Once again though Brian thank you so much for the interest and query I will try to keep this question in mind making plans to move forward as I have been away from the channel for some time working in the background on possible future moves. Im sure much more of an answer than you expected from a simple question but, I do truly appreciate the interest.
I actually have to very much agree. Every one of those little crystal bast@rds is completely different. I also dont see this as good or bad just maybe use these crackly velcro sounding ones in a fuzz and not a boost right? Hahaha
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment Alaric. Thats how my whole house and shop and studio room and tables.. all of it looks like that LOL but I cleaned the table off and put the components in a organizer this time at least.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to write a comment Larry. NO need, seriously if you mail me the parts and some money I'll build you a pedal. Im too nerdy anti-social to use a phone let alone talk to people face to face... oh lord no. Let me be in my dungeon with my thoughts LOL
what the actual heck, do u just store your electronic parts in those zip lock bags from Tayda? comme on man, get yourself one of those organizers with many little drawers. I actually got a deal of the century on used one with 38 drawes in a charity shop, was only 4 euros.
