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Re:Minibooster Operation

9/9/1999 5:51 AM
Joe Fuzz
Re:Minibooster Operation
quote:
"The two devices stayed balanced, but were moving into their triode region, I'd guess, so the tone changed."
 
 
 
 
I guess I could quantify what I mean by "tone change." The circuit does soft clipping quite well. Excellent, in fact as in 12AX7 excellent. But it doesn't do hard clipping very well -- at least, I couldn't ever get it to sound good when overdriven. Did you ever cascade SHOs? That's what it sounded like. I'm frankly mystified by the "cascaded mini-booster" up at the PCB site. I haven't actually inspected the circuit but I cascaded 2 mini-boosters and it sounded awful to me.  
 
 
 
What is happening now is I'm getting that same brittle cascaded tone but with only one stage. I'm *guessing* that I have slipped up or down the load line and that I'm now banging one of the rails harder than I normally would.  
 
 
 
quote:
"2N5485 would be a good place to start."
 
 
 
 
Thanks for the suggestion.

 
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Aron Exactly, it doesn't do hard clippin... -- 9/9/1999 5:57 PM