toob boostin - MXR classic overdrive (tube screamer copy) SEKRIT SWITCH [ATTN: BRUE][views:2816][posts:13]________________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 8:51am - DestroyYouAlot ""] Haha, anybody run across this, yet? Bought a tube screamer copy a while back, just now I'm trollin' around looking for modding advice, and I find this: http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=725923 Apparently there's a switch installed on the board that basically makes it more transparent? Somebody just KNEW I was gonna have this case open, haha. If it sounds ok, I'll prolly drill a hole in the case and mount the switch so I can get to it. |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 8:53am - DestroyYouAlot ""] note to self: "spdt switch, right-hand is home position" |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 9:08am - Bradsauce ""] Dude, check out freestompboxes.org. Tons of mod ideas and shite. |
| _______________________________ [Feb 25,2011 9:23am - Mutis ""] I thought this thread was about cheating in MW2. |
| _________________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 12:45pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Huh - according to at least one account, that switch actually turns this box into the zw-44 zakk wylde pedal. Wee waa, widdly widdly pinch harmonic. (I paid like $27 for this thing, so according to a casual price comparison, that's a $50 switch, haha.) |
| _____________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 12:47pm - Alx_Casket ""] I thought this thread was about stealing TV's. |
| _________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 1:04pm - Martins ""] I bought a shitty old TS-5. Changed the clipping diodes to 1 germanium on one side and two silicon 1n914s on the other side. Then I increased the gain of the clipping section. It sounds fucking badass. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 1:32pm - goatcatalyst ""] I clipped the gain with 4 g64yj diodes and an wmc capacitor from an old analogy |
| ____________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 1:38pm - Alx_Casket ""] Should have used the vintage microbooster quad-USB D7 automaton. |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 2:10pm - Slag NLI ""] [img] |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 3:11pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Update: this thing fucking kills, me likey. With the switch thrown, it's a lot more transparent (esp on the bass end) and a lot less fizzy and middy. Sounds savage through the 6505. As an added bonus it doesn't have stupid zakk wylde paint or his dumb name anywhere on it, high five. I just drilled a channel in the case for the switch and jumped it off the board with paperclips. Thanks, MXR! LOL |
| ______________________________ [Feb 25,2011 3:36pm - blue ""] sounds cool, havent tried one yet. but for uber cheap overdrives id go for either the digitech bad monkey or a use ibanez ts-7. |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 4:39pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] WHY CAN'T YOU BE HAPPY FOR ME P_P |
| ________________________________________ [Feb 25,2011 5:04pm - DestroyYouAlot ""] Actually, just the dual functionality between metal-y rhythm bass transparent pedal and midboost-y lead dirt pedal is kinda intriguing me, I might replace the slider with a footswitch at some point. |