Paisley

[Matt]

Short back story, I built a paisley drive clone about a year back and ended up getting rid of it because it just sounded too dark. Like I said short back story.

Fast forward to now.  I recently went to a local music store which had a real paisley drive so I checked it out. It was brighter overall than the clone I remembered.  And honestly sounded really good.  So I went home and built another paisley clone to see if I could figure it out. Out of pure luck, I accidentally switched the 2k2 and a 220 resistor which made it really bright.  Too bright.  Which led me to what I think is the correct value for the resistor in the negative feedback loop. Instead of being a 2k2, I believe that should be a 1k.

Since I can't say for sure that this is correct, I figured I should put this with the "mods" not the "corrections"

[copachino]

What layout are you using?... Can you post it??

[Matt]

http://home.comcast.net/~gprause/BuildDocs/Pastie_V1.1_Build_Doc%20V2.pdf

R7

[selfdestroyer]

Interesting, I built mine to the BOM and I don't find it dark at all.. but then again, I am playing it into a Fender Twin Reverb RI and everything is bright. lol

I will have to look more into this.

Cody

[Matt]

Interesting, I built mine to the BOM and I don't find it dark at all.. but then again, I am playing it into a Fender Twin Reverb RI and everything is bright. lol

I will have to look more into this.

Cody

I was using a different amp/guitar combination at the music store. So my comparison is far from perfect.  It just seemed that I with my clone, I had to keep the tone control at about 3 o'clock so it wouldn't be darker than the bypass tone.

If anyone has a chance to a/b a clone with the real deal I'd love to know what they find.