So the main complaint on these pedals is that there's way too much fizzy treble, but with a few choice capacitor changes there's a beautiful preamp / overdrive pedal in there!
There are a nice variety of tones on tap here, from a very light grit to a fuzzy tube-y muff sound. It can do something that's closer to a Marshall, but it's its own unique tone for sure.
The mods I did:
1. Replace C2 with a higher quality tone cap
2. Cut C6 to reduce treble content
3. Swap C10 with a 470pF to lower the treble tone control center point
4. Full re-cap of the electrolytics!
I also tried cutting C3 (another treble bleed part of the circuit) but that actually took away too much treble! With these 3 swaps the tone of the pedal opened up marvelously, as you can hear in the clip.
With a full electrolytic cap replacement, the noise floor is reduced even further and the overall tone tightens up a bit. Those things were like 30 years old, it was a long overdue fix!
26 май 2022