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Re: Crybaby GCB-95 buffer ?

8/11/1999 4:41 PM
Arnaud	Re: Crybaby GCB-95 buffer ? Thank you for your help I'll unsolder this 22pf capacitor when I'll have a soldering iron... (that's the good name in english?). My electronic retailer is closed (because of holidays) and will reopen 8/24/99. I only have an enormous 40W soldering iron and I don't want to kill my pedal with this. The treble loss in my pedal is not so important. Seems like playing with very old strings (and I tell you once again: ALL the stock Crybaby bypasses sound this way. I really think this darlington buffer is bad in its concept). I also use a Sovtek Big Muff so when I plug both, I really think I'm owning a 62' Strat with the original strings !!! I'll put your (incredible) Millenium bypass into my Big Muff later. By the way, this Millenium bypass is really elegant (diode leakage current,really true-bypass). What a great improvement of the Rat bypass. Congratulations !!! I'll post other questions about the Colorsound Tonebender clipping section and the EH Small Stone "strange-feedback-loop-in-the-phase-stage" soon. Hope eveybody will like them! One last thing: I don't have an oscilloscope and a function generator. Think it would be interesting to measure the REAL input impedance of the darlington buffer at high frequency (about 10kHz). If anyone has the time to do this...

8/11/1999 4:41 PM

Arnaud

Re: Crybaby GCB-95 buffer ?

Thank you for your help

I'll unsolder this 22pf capacitor when I'll have a soldering iron... (that's the good name in english?). My electronic retailer is closed (because of holidays) and will reopen 8/24/99. I only have an enormous 40W soldering iron and I don't want to kill my pedal with this.

The treble loss in my pedal is not so important. Seems like playing with very old strings (and I tell you once again: ALL the stock Crybaby bypasses sound this way. I really think this darlington buffer is bad in its concept). I also use a Sovtek Big Muff so when I plug both, I really think I'm owning a 62' Strat with the original strings !!! I'll put your (incredible) Millenium bypass into my Big Muff later.

By the way, this Millenium bypass is really elegant (diode leakage current,really true-bypass). What a great improvement of the Rat bypass. Congratulations !!!

I'll post other questions about the Colorsound Tonebender clipping section and the EH Small Stone "strange-feedback-loop-in-the-phase-stage" soon. Hope eveybody will like them!

One last thing: I don't have an oscilloscope and a function generator. Think it would be interesting to measure the REAL input impedance of the darlington buffer at high frequency (about 10kHz). If anyone has the time to do this...

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R.G. q{I'll post other questions about t... -- 8/11/1999 5:05 PM