The Amp Garage

Agreed. The Electra overdrive topology is a great little circuit and sounds very good for its parts count. It's drawback lay in the limitations found regarding volume output and the lack of real "mods" you can do to the circuit. The electro Harmonix epb-1 is another very simple pedal that sounds sur...

Whoa, I didn't say 225 or orange drops were audiophile. What I was suggesting was that spending 150 fat ones on caps for this circuit is really not a great idea when you may as well invest that cash into something you'll probably use and enjoy much more (iron for an actual tweed?). By using more exp...

The boost switch isn't increasing the overall "volume" of the circuit it is only increasing the gain of the transistor amplifier and therefore the clipping which occurs in those diodes. Those diodes clamp and limit the maximum volume you can get. For example a low forward voltage diode will clamp th...

Proguitarshop's "demo it live" is good for this...

In the airbrake iii is there any particular reason why a 8 ohm 20watt resistor was used to provide the shunt value of 21 ohms (8 + 13 ohms in series) rather than just another adjustable lug on the main shunt resistor? I can't see the point of the 8ohm rather than just getting an extra adjustable lug...