My Pleasure, El Kabong. Maaaan, when I was a kid, in the mid 80s, I saw the El Kabong cartoon one Saturday morning, and that lead to my brother and I hitting each other and shouting "El Kabong" and we got in so much trouble. Great username!
If you were to add germanium transistors into those positions, you'd also need to change out resistors to bias them. It'd be a stupid thing to try and do, honestly. Given how many DIY pcbs there are for Germ circuits, you'd be much less inconvenienced starting from scratch. I've got dozens of germ transistors I will never get around to using pretty much for this reason.
I got this Mosky pedal and I was kinda disappointed that settings 1 and 2 sounded identical on my unit, while setting 3 was more of a Fuzzface/Tone Bender sound. Setting 4 was a clean boost, which is kinda useless to me. So I thought I'd get three usable settings, but really only ended up with two. Does anyone else have the problem that 1 and 2 are identical?
Your experience matches mint. The different positions don't really act differently. It's not a patch on the JHS pedal which does everything right. I also didn't find it had the extended high frequency range that a muff delivers. I was, honestly, disappointed by this pedal. The Rat one, however. That pedal is amazing! It correctly emulates the different rat modes. That circuit is simpler, though. The only real change between rat modes are the clipping diodes.
Muff Pi didn't use opamps, that's a later version, the one Billy Corgan famously used. Please see the Kit Rae website, as they know everything there is to know. www.kitrae.net/music/big_muff_op_amp_history.html A traditional Big Muff uses 4 transistors. Please consult Electrosmash, as they've got a stupidily in depth circuit analysis of this circuit. www.electrosmash.com/big-muff-pi-analysis
Tone Bender uses one transistor for clipping, two others are to amplify the clean signal . Also there are several versions of two transistor tonebenders.
Thanks for the video
My Pleasure, El Kabong.
Maaaan, when I was a kid, in the mid 80s, I saw the El Kabong cartoon one Saturday morning, and that lead to my brother and I hitting each other and shouting "El Kabong" and we got in so much trouble.
Great username!
And now it’s time to stick a transistor socket in there and try some germaniums!
If you were to add germanium transistors into those positions, you'd also need to change out resistors to bias them. It'd be a stupid thing to try and do, honestly.
Given how many DIY pcbs there are for Germ circuits, you'd be much less inconvenienced starting from scratch.
I've got dozens of germ transistors I will never get around to using pretty much for this reason.
I got this Mosky pedal and I was kinda disappointed that settings 1 and 2 sounded identical on my unit, while setting 3 was more of a Fuzzface/Tone Bender sound. Setting 4 was a clean boost, which is kinda useless to me. So I thought I'd get three usable settings, but really only ended up with two. Does anyone else have the problem that 1 and 2 are identical?
Your experience matches mint. The different positions don't really act differently. It's not a patch on the JHS pedal which does everything right.
I also didn't find it had the extended high frequency range that a muff delivers.
I was, honestly, disappointed by this pedal.
The Rat one, however. That pedal is amazing! It correctly emulates the different rat modes. That circuit is simpler, though. The only real change between rat modes are the clipping diodes.
How can it do a Tonebender or Muff with only 2 transistors. Tonebenders have 3 transistors. And I think the big muff Pi used opamps?
Muff Pi didn't use opamps, that's a later version, the one Billy Corgan famously used.
Please see the Kit Rae website, as they know everything there is to know.
www.kitrae.net/music/big_muff_op_amp_history.html
A traditional Big Muff uses 4 transistors.
Please consult Electrosmash, as they've got a stupidily in depth circuit analysis of this circuit.
www.electrosmash.com/big-muff-pi-analysis
Tone Bender uses one transistor for clipping, two others are to amplify the clean signal . Also there are several versions of two transistor tonebenders.
Hello there! Are there any opamps in this pedal?
There are not any opamps!
Good question.
The only ICs are CD4066s to switch in and out different parts of the topologies.