Am I really looking for a Timmy or something else?

[MechaGodzilla]

power booster is like a mild tonebender with tone sculpting to my ears

lol what mk.? I guess if you made a silicon tonebender without the slightest fuzz you wouldn't be wrong. I mostly think of it as "darn loud"

idk, i built one and had a throbak and it just behaved and "felt" like a fuzz rolled back to be just under the fuzziness threshold. not talking in a technical sense, just qualitative. anyway i wouldn't call it an amp-like sound personally.

[qersty]

From what i've read the throbak is supposed to be voiced pretty poor compared to the originals. odd that yours also felt like that. maybe it is just the 9v that is different and moreso than i thought. i should perhaps lend you mine for evaluation

[MechaGodzilla]

the one i built was 18v. i don't know who has it, i lent it out a few times. definitely fuzz-adjacent in my not-even-slightly authoritative opinion

[qersty]

well yeah it is adjascent to fuzz but i still think its far from there and it's nothing turning up the treble will solve

[dubkitty]

it would be technically possible, but i'm not very good at soldering guitar wiring so i expect that i'd ruin components by overheating them if i tried building pedals.

[qersty]

it would be technically possible, but i'm not very good at soldering guitar wiring so i expect that i'd ruin components by overheating them if i tried building pedals.

I understand your anxiety. Soldering a PCB is way easier than wiring a guitar, though. Solder flows easy and you dont have to heat big ground points for ages to get going. I think heat damage is not that big a deal except for electrolytics. I have assaulted a project with a heat gun and it still makes it's sound

[dubkitty]

i think i'd have to get one of the soldering irons they used for circuit boards at the IC company i used to work for. i borrowed one and used it to fix a cracked circuit board on my old Tascam 4-track cassette recorder, which got busted when the headphone jack got torqued like probably 70% of the 4-tracks that existed. i also broke a Fostex the same way. who decided that mounting the headphone jack on a board was a good idea?

[qersty]

it's cheap cause you dont need a human to do it

[frigid midget]

Wish the days of finding a used BD2 for $40 were still here lol missed the boat on that one years ago

So what did you end up with?

I recenty accidentally found out I like blues lawyer style overdrives
My buddy has a whole bunch of popular low/medium gain overdrives laying around, he let me use 'em while he was on holiday. Obviously, the ones that stood out were the most expensive ones

The BD-2W sounded great too though, really took me by surprise, had no idea it was actually a ligit MIAB with the gain cranked.

Anyway, I tried my first klon type pedal ever. Always avoided it, for obvious reasons. It's the shit though, I kinda get why everyone goes apeshit over 'em. It slays in front of whatever other dirt pedal I tried. Stacks way better than a Rat or a TS or a boss od. I guess the active eq and might've had something to do with that though. Wampler Tumnus Deluxe, it's got way more gain than an actual klon replica. I'm sure it's got to be one of those overdrives that gives tgp'ers boners too.

[MechaGodzilla]

i picked up a WH saucy box and, while it is a little bit nasal in the midrange, it's got a really excellent amp-like crunch.

[moid]

i wish i could find a Singing Tree. i had a line on one, but the overseas seller's PayPal account was fucked up and as far as i know was never fixed.

The nice person who runs Dirtboxlayouts recently made a vero layout of that pedal - it doesn't look too hard to make?

https://dirtboxlayouts.blogspot.com/202 ... 6670448846

[frigid midget]

i picked up a WH saucy box and, while it is a little bit nasal in the midrange, it's got a really excellent amp-like crunch.

Cool, I was curious about the SB myself. I just settled for a JHS AT+. Good eq, very useable wide range of gain, small footprint, and a boost that can be stacked or used on its own.
I've always stayed away from JHS pedals, the guy who builds 'em is supposedly a douche. A douche who builds awesome pedals