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The Confidence Boost PCB with all the directly mounted components added. The input and output sockets and the battery clip still need to be wired in.
Kit By: www.buildyourownclone.com/
Bought From: www.vibe-o-tronic.co.uk/
Bohemian Boost - BYOC Tri-Boost with a "Night at the Opera" theme. Pearlescent white finish with home-made waterslide decals.
B.Y.O.C. (Build Your Own Clone) Lazy Sprocket.
Will need a spay job soon, I have a feeling it'll end up British Racing Green as that's the colour of a spare aerosol can I have lying about.
B.Y.O.C. (Build Your Own Clone) Lazy Sprocket.
Will need a spay job soon, I have a feeling it'll end up British Racing Green as that's the colour of a spare aerosol can I have lying about.
I went ahead and built out that Build Your Own Clone Rat board. It's only about half-installed into this case because the enclosure isn't powder-coated yet. So I just kind of hung the board in there to try it out. Probably won't powder coat the enclosure until a shipment I have coming with some more enclosures arrives early next week. Don't feel like setting everything up for one enclosure.
Anyway, I figured given all these clipping options, I'd be like, "Oh yeah, that one is my favorite." No. They're all my favorite. Heh...
The rotary switch is a 6-way - the first three positions are:
1) Symmetric diode clipping (two 1N4148 diodes) like a vintage Rat.
2) LED clipping (two red 3mm LEDs) like the Turbo Rat.
3) Asymmetric diode clipping (two 1N4001 diodes on one side and one 1N4148 on the other).
Positions 4, 5, & 6 relocate the clipping diodes to the feedback loop of the op-amp (like a Tube Screamer), giving the pedal more of an overdrive character. Except it's still an LM308 op-amp, so it's like a Tube Screamer's psychotic cousin that's been remanded to a padded room so's not to kill nobody.
Anyway, the next three positions are:
4) Symmetric diodes (two 1N4148 diodes).
5) Asymmetrical diodes (two 1N4001 diodes on one side and one 1N4148 on the other).
6) MOSFETs (two BS170 MOSFETs).
So yeah...they all sound absolutely awesome. The Turbo Rat mode is really cool. Very tube-like. Very loud, because of the extremely high forward voltage drop of the LEDs. I think I measured them at 1.8v or so. So well over twice that of the other diodes. The MOSFET mode is really cool and meaty. The basic #1 position sounds exactly like a regular old-school Rat, which is always going to be awesome (if you like Rats).
I need to mess with it more, which probably won't really happen until the enclosure is ready, since I'd rather not beat it up while it's sans armor. I need to get more comfortable with its various tones, but at first listen they all sound freakin' amazing. Highly recommended.
BTW, I've got a couple of things I want to try in Ratsylvania before I decide what I think is the greatest expression of Rattitude, but this was the first big stop I wanted to make. Well worth the ride.
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This Rat is just ridiculously good. The Build Your Own Clone guys really topped themselves with this design. Especially the last three clipping options, and in particular the MOSFET option. Just amazingly cool.
I added that four position Compensation Capacitor selector and that allows me to choose from 33 pF, 47 pF, 100 pF and 220 pF Compensation Capacitors. That reduces the bandwidth and dynamic range, giving it a really mean, compressed sound.
I'm really kind of partial to the 100 pF Compensation Capacitor with the MOSFET clipping.
These are the six clipping options.
The first three are standard Rat-style clip-to-ground:
#1 Standard symmetric Rat clipping from 2 x 1N4148 diodes.
#2 Turbo Rat clipping from 2 x red LEDs.
#3 Asymmetric (Boss-style) clipping from 1 x 1N4148 on one side and 2 x 1N4001 on the other side.
The second three are in the feedback loop like a Tube Screamer or a Boss OD-1. These give you a kind of Rat-Overdrive that's unique among Rat pedals, as far as I know.
#4 Symmetric clipping from 2 x 1N4148 diodes.
#5 Asymmetric (Boss-style) clipping from 1 x 1N4148 on one side and 2 x 1N4001 on the other side.
#6 MOSFET clipping from 2 x BS1`70 MOSFETs.
This is a Rat Pedal clone. I built it from a kit that I bought at Build Your Own Clone (http://buildyourownclone.com/). It sounds just as good, if not better, than the real Rat pedal.
Underside of the PCB showing off my surprisingly neat soldering.
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Bought From: www.vibe-o-tronic.co.uk/
Linear boost circuit for guitar or bass.
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