Hi all,
Built some time ago a Sun King (very satisfied), but as a Klon Centaur lover, wanted to build a Kingslayer, and today finally received the dual gang B100k I needed.
Well, I did find two problems once wired:
1. The motorboat problem with gain carnked and both hard and soft clippin' diodes lifted. Ok, I was warned about this issue.
2. If I lifted D2 and D3 (Bat46) and cranked distortion with 1n34s or red leds active, the amount of gain was unbearable, dirty and distorted, a real wall of noise and had a little motorboat background sound. If the BAT46 were active too, then the effect worked fine.
I deciced to socket R11 and finally choose 680k. Higher values get the insane distortion again, and lower ones, offered very low gain.
I knew the problem with both sets lifted, but the distorted noise when D2-D3 were unactive seems new or at least haven't seen anything about it.
I built this pedal verbatim to specifications (I even was lucky enough to find a resistor of 392k!), except the MAX1044, that was replaced with a ICL7660SCPAZ.
Any idea / comment about his issue with the D2-D3 lifted?
Best regards.
Built some time ago a Sun King (very satisfied), but as a Klon Centaur lover, wanted to build a Kingslayer, and today finally received the dual gang B100k I needed.
Well, I did find two problems once wired:
1. The motorboat problem with gain carnked and both hard and soft clippin' diodes lifted. Ok, I was warned about this issue.
2. If I lifted D2 and D3 (Bat46) and cranked distortion with 1n34s or red leds active, the amount of gain was unbearable, dirty and distorted, a real wall of noise and had a little motorboat background sound. If the BAT46 were active too, then the effect worked fine.
I deciced to socket R11 and finally choose 680k. Higher values get the insane distortion again, and lower ones, offered very low gain.
I knew the problem with both sets lifted, but the distorted noise when D2-D3 were unactive seems new or at least haven't seen anything about it.
I built this pedal verbatim to specifications (I even was lucky enough to find a resistor of 392k!), except the MAX1044, that was replaced with a ICL7660SCPAZ.
Any idea / comment about his issue with the D2-D3 lifted?
Best regards.