I picked up a movall two yetis for cheap not too long ago. I will admit i did so because it was cheap and tiny and has yetis on it. I like yetis. it looks like this:
due to the mislabeled switch, the Internet would lead you to believe that it is an OCD clone. It certainly is not. It's a tube screamer topology, 4558 with diode clippers in the gain loop. The switch switches between diodes and leds, has nothing to do with filtering. And, there is something wrong with how it switches in the leds. In the HP setting the leds aren't engaging properly, so it works more like a very thin sounding clean boost in that mode. I did not like this pedal until I fixed it.
Luckily, it's easy to fix the leds, you can just jumper on the back of the switch. Or, if you are like me and like a fat and gentle soft clip with lots of bass, you can do what I did and put a resistor in there. I put a 6k8 in. I had a pot wired up and swept around for a while before deciding. you can see where i added the resistor at the top of this photo:
if you do own one of these cheap beasts, I highly recommend trying this easily-reversible mod. it gives it a lot more bass in led clipping "HP" mode and backs off the clipping to be nice and smooth. With a $0.01 part this pedal went from regrettable impulse purchase to actually very nice and useful soft clip bass overdrive. I have an unnecessarily large selection of dirt pedals but this one will be staying on the board for a while.
due to the mislabeled switch, the Internet would lead you to believe that it is an OCD clone. It certainly is not. It's a tube screamer topology, 4558 with diode clippers in the gain loop. The switch switches between diodes and leds, has nothing to do with filtering. And, there is something wrong with how it switches in the leds. In the HP setting the leds aren't engaging properly, so it works more like a very thin sounding clean boost in that mode. I did not like this pedal until I fixed it.
Luckily, it's easy to fix the leds, you can just jumper on the back of the switch. Or, if you are like me and like a fat and gentle soft clip with lots of bass, you can do what I did and put a resistor in there. I put a 6k8 in. I had a pot wired up and swept around for a while before deciding. you can see where i added the resistor at the top of this photo:
if you do own one of these cheap beasts, I highly recommend trying this easily-reversible mod. it gives it a lot more bass in led clipping "HP" mode and backs off the clipping to be nice and smooth. With a $0.01 part this pedal went from regrettable impulse purchase to actually very nice and useful soft clip bass overdrive. I have an unnecessarily large selection of dirt pedals but this one will be staying on the board for a while.
