Dan Boost

[cooder]

Flippin' awesomeness in every way, epic!
Whta beautiful versions inside out, just a pleasure and unique to the tilt!

Lovely guitar there too!
Thanks for posting it all! Yes we need a sound demo!

[PapaKev]

Long story boring, about 5 years ago I bought a large bag of BC108 transistors and forgot about them in a toolbox and then moved. About 2 years ago I found them and started trying to figure out fun ways to utilize them and decided I wanted to build my dream boost pedal. My pedal board is really small and usually consists of a drive and a delay and that is what I noodle with, so I wanted the boost to be able to not change the character of the amp and to be able to clean up when I roll back the volume.

I grabbed the breadboard and schematics of a ton of boosts and start futzing around. I came up with a boost that lived on the bread board (and still does) that was played all of the time. The first one I built on vero and sent it to my brother who loves it but I hated all of the wires everywhere. The next one I wanted to try point to point, to try and use up parts from my amp builds. At this point I bought a bunch of stuff from stompboxparts and the GE version was made, this is the one Chris has and my SI version is here.

It is essentially a tweaked DAM Red Rooster IIRC, I have the schematic written somewhere if anybody wants it.

Love the texture and the graphic. Inside is so good it should be in a transparent case. Nice job.

[harryklippton]

ok, turns out my gibson isn't the same as Chris's but very close. Mine's a 2016 60s tribute T and mine is stock wiring and pickups. Sorry for the derail.

[Thewintersoldier]

ok, turns out my gibson isn't the same as Chris's but very close. Mine's a 2016 60s tribute T and mine is stock wiring and pickups. Sorry for the derail.

I almost got a dark back but I didn't like the hollowness of the weight relief. Dat orange tho! Heres what it can do to a tweed amp

[harryklippton]

That sounds great!

[jjjimi84]

That was awesome!

[jimilee]

That sounds fantastic. I really need one. Those P90s really put out some crunch.

[cooder]

Very noice and rippin'!

[Bret608]

Yeah, that sounds fantastic! I was just about to ask for a clip, and here you go preemptively posting one. I love that guitar. Also, the booster is a beauty, so Dan if you have the schematic that would be great. I'd probably do a vero if I can find some time.

[Aleph Null]

That's some next level work! Almost seems a shame to screw the lid on.

[Feral Feline]

Love the P90s!

The P2P is beautiful, should be in clear epoxy "enclosure" to show it off!

If I tried that, it'd look like a scale model of a carnival roller-coaster — don't know how you got that so neat and straight and perfectly aligned...
wow, so beeyootyful , beeeeeyootee-full!

[jjjimi84]

I found the schematic written in my chicken scratch hand writing! I am going to write it pretty and detail some of the different versions and post a copy tomorrow. If people are interested I could do a little run of these pedals, they are really fun to build and paint. Ideally I would love to see all of us breadboard this little guy and start modding and make this into a forum boost type idea, I would love to get feedback on it and what to do to make it better.

[harryklippton]

I found the schematic written in my chicken scratch hand writing! I am going to write it pretty and detail some of the different versions and post a copy tomorrow. If people are interested I could do a little run of these pedals, they are really fun to build and paint. Ideally I would love to see all of us breadboard this little guy and start modding and make this into a forum boost type idea, I would love to get feedback on it and what to do to make it better.

I'd like to play around with it on a breadboard. And if you make more, I'll buy one!

[gordo]

Damn fine demo.  Short and to the point.  Terrible Ted has been shooting himself in the foot lately but his licks stand for themselves.

[KMRO]

Gorgeous build and a great video.  Sounds sick when you click it on.