Anyone try this one yet?

[REPTAR]

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2013/01/emerson-custom-guitars-em-drive.html


I had to try a few different cap values because the one I build got really dark.

[REPTAR]

Forgot to mention... ironically, though I couldn't get it to sound the way I wanted, it still ended up on my pedalboard.  I actually keep it on with a boost in front to brighten it up.  Just curious if anyone has any ideas to make it more useable on it's on.

[ichilton]

Yikes - that must be the simplest overdrive ever!

[midwayfair]

Yikes - that must be the simplest overdrive ever!

And it sounds exactly like you'd expect a single silicon transistor driven to cutoff with no filtering or buffering to sound. 

There's design simplicity and then there's laziness.

[REPTAR]

  haha.  I still can't imagine 2 mojo caps making that circuit worth 160

[REPTAR]

Maybe i'll just add some switches and make it an OD/boost/fuzz box

[midwayfair]

haha.  I still can't imagine 2 mojo caps making that circuit worth 160

They're not even really mojo. They're trash Russian caps, which they probably picked up for almost nothing on Ebay. They're just high voltage.

[REPTAR]

haha I'm not surprised. 

[REPTAR]

I replaced the 2n5088 with a metal can 2n2222a and it sounds a lot better now.  Still a little on the dark side, but with the gain low, the clipping sounds more natural, and less like a low gain fuzz, and run-on sentences are awesome.