The Jazz Rat from the Black Lagoon

[Guitarmageddon]

Slow Loris and a Clean Blend (the vero add-on.)
I really like to use a rat with my archtop when I do jazz gigs, but like to be able to blend some clean back in help preserve some clarity and stop the thing from howling too much.
I used the simple Buff and Blend circuit from Beavis, Clipping options are leds, none and a pair of BS170 configured as clippers. (my favorite)

[jtn191]

fantastic job, man!

I just finished one of these today too! mine was built to the specs of the build doc. Curious about those BS170s, are they the quietest/most compressed?--like the 1N914s are?

I'd like to see the vero layout of the clean blend...the only one I've seen uses an opamp
Sweet etching and photography too!

[Guitarmageddon]

Thanks!
Yes, the JFET clippers are similar in level and feel to si diodes.
Just tie the D & S legs together as one leg and G as the other, then mount them in opposite directions as you would diodes.

It's a pretty simple blend circuit, and probably isn't as good as others for some applications, but is small and works well enough here for me.
Here's my vero:

[lincolnic]

Loving the design!

[raulduke]

Very nice 'mageddon.

I imagine that clean blend would be pretty cool to use in a bass overdrive pedal (increasing the in and out caps to suit of course)?