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Red Llama - Tube Sound Fuzz - build thread
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shipped on the 17th... never showed up.
reshipped on the 31st... tracking says "Accepted 3/31 Evans, LA"
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but I thought I'd share my Red Llama build, also done from the Tonepad layout.
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shipped on the 17th... never showed up.
reshipped on the 31st... tracking says "Accepted 3/31 Evans, LA"
That's wank. I'd been itching to get mine assembled, i feel your pain!
Nice build. Very neat. Is that the tonepad PCB? Layout looks the same as mine, except what have you done with your Fuzz / Drive pot? I haven't looked at my pcb to check, but you have wiper 1 shorted to 2? Mine may be the same, but done on the PCB, i'll have to check. Anyone else finding that this is the loudest pedal on their board?
It's the Tonepad layout, but I etched the board myself. The drive pot is wired as a variable resistor so the two lugs are connected (they don't even have to be really). If you look at the pcb the two pads are connected, so I did it at the pot instead rather than using another wire. Yeah, it is very loud. I only have to turn it up to about 9-10 o'clock for unity. I think I used a linear taper 10K pot though because it's what I had on hand. I'll probably switch it out to a log taper to help with that. I have an old EH Hot Tubes which is a derivative of the Tube Sound Fuzz concept and it's really loud too.
I've got an audio taper pot there, but it's still very loud. about 25% is about right for unity volume on mine too. Not that it's a problem, I can just keep the volume low....
I was told by 2 different builders that it doesn't matter tone or otherwise. That is why I asked the self proclaimed 'source' claiming it matters... how & why it matters
I was told by 2 different builders that it doesn't matter tone or otherwise. That is why I asked the self proclaimed 'source' claiming it matters... how & why it matters
Well different types of caps can sound different, but changing just a single cap in a circuit to a different type probably makes no difference whatsoever and even if it did who's to say that it's for the better? Try both and see if you can tell any difference.
exactly what I've been told... I was hoping to hear the reason it would specifically need to be a tant. I'm still learning all this crap, my electronics background was with power supplies and printers... nothing audio related.
I would leave out the tant until you have more experience. Tant caps are very easy to toast. You can always change it later.
but why would I want to change it to a tant? What is the benefit?
(not trying to be a wise-***, just curious and couldn't get a definitive answer when I was shopping part prior to posting this thread)
I would imagine just the variance in tolerance of all the components would make a bigger difference, especially if they were near the ends of the tolerance.
vague and speculative even. I've read that board up and back over the past few months... many other similar sites too.
I'm still not seeing any actually reason to think tant caps 'matter' to the tone of a circuit (at least in a good way)
