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Popped a 15k in there,....tamed the fuzz down quite a bit. Thanks,....I like the more aggressive fuzz,...but maybe I'll put in a toggle to pull the resistor out of the circuit (going to check that out with the switch on the B/O box).
yeah impedance is tricky. I tried a little experiment putting a 100k pot after all the pedals before the amp on a roland jc120. worked like a low pass filter but not muddy and no mid bump like a big cap. on some amps, the change is hardly noticeable. putting it between 2 pedals in one box is the perfect situation since you know that the same circuit will always be before and after so you can get the same results every time. recording engineers do this little trick called impedance mismatching where they select the mic pre with the wrong impedance to get the EQ without actually using an EQ. the most amazing thing about it is that there is absolutely no phasing. an EQ or filter will ALWAYS have phasing. phase linear EQ's would be the obvious exception to the rule.
Doesn't a real LPB circuit have a volume control? Why not just add that in for a gain control. : D
The output impedance of an LPB is going to be pretty high (value of the collector resistor-- 10K for an LPB, I think), so it won't be like feeding a buffer into a Bazz Fuss, but the low input impedance of a Bazz would also interact with the pickups and reduce high end. If the pedal's too harsh, you could add low pass filter after the LPB (just a cap to ground will do), or put a small cap from the LPBs collector to its base (like those little caps on big muff gain stages).
You are going over mah head a little bit Danny,...but let me just chime in real quick and say that there is a pot for the volume control,...it's just hidden in the picture, but you can see a long black ground and a red and yellow jumper running out of frame to the terminal strip and an A100K pot,....like so;
The potty is tucked up above the breadboard there, and a gain/volume control is essentially what I'm using the LBP-1 for.
bypass switch and volume bypass switch. the volume is on the output. using the mammoth jumper wires. I intend to add a second breadboard to this beavis board at some point. organizing parts in drawers took me like 14 to 18 hours. what a nightmare. everything is held on by double-sided tape
I got them at kmart, search for "60 stack on drawer". each store has 1 or 2 at a time. kmart.com wont ship them at all and you cant order stock to the store. what a bunch of jerks. good news is they are $15 each and they work great.
I need to go on a component shopping spree. I don't want a bunch of stuff I can't or won't use but I'm have tempted to just say fuck it go down the bags of 200 resistors list on Mammoth and check each one.
