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Built a new Tube Screamer. It's right pretty.

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Hot rodded 808 I made today. Acid etched box, fat switch for bass boost, clipping options, and better tone control.
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Very cool, congrats!
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Mega cool!
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That looks great! Whats the "better tone control"?
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Like the etching, will have to figure out how to do that one day.
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Those knobs are pretty cool. Where did they come from?
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laterallateral wrote:Those knobs are pretty cool. Where did they come from?
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The design is so cool.
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Nice looking enclosure! That is sweet.
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h8mtv wrote: fat switch for bass boost, clipping options, and better tone control.
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As far as better tone control most of the "good stuff" is bunched up at one end of the spectrum. A TS usually has a 25k pot. Dropping that value to a 2 or 5k helps a ton. From there is has clipping options, one side of the 3 way is 914 diodes, lift in mid position, and combo Ge and green led in the last position.

I let the enclosure "cook" a bit too long. The other one of the same pattern came out like this.

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I'll have to remember that about the tone control, had no idea! The Ge/led combo sounds interesting too.
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Just to be more anal, the TS has a 20kG pot for the tone control. Other taper pots are going to bunch up a lot more.
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