Hi, good morning everyone, first I'd like to thank the moderators for this amazing forum, I've been reading some threads for some days and decided that it's time to participate more.
It's been a while since I've started building guitar effects, for my own use, and over an year that I've built my first amplifier, a TDA7294 with clean an dirt preamp, the preamps were both found at www.handmades.com, they call it "pré-clean" and "marshallizer", the clean channel has a good sound, nice to tune, but it really messes the tone of my pedals, I can't find a good distortion tone combined with that clean preamp, the dirt is the same, I really didn't liked it, it has a good distortion, more to overdrive, sounds like a low power marshall amp, but it's awful with muted notes, I have two guitars, one is 20 years old with weak pickups, and the other is my first guitar, with more powerfull pickups, both sound weird with the dirt preamp, I'm using a handmade Sans-Amp GT2 as a preamp for now, that one is awesome except for the fact it doesn't have a "mid" control. Now I'm having more time to work on my projects so I decided to find a good match of preamps to use on my amp, I'm looking all over for different preamps, nothing special, I just want to try a lot of them to find out what I like, for a clean I wanted something that wouldn't mess the tone of my distortion pedals when I use them, and for the dirt I wanted a more defined distortion, doesn't need to have too much gain, just enough.
Now, my point is, what I want with this thread, is to talk about it, to know what do you guys like on a preamp, what suggestions of good ones do you know, as I said on other thread, I'm willing to build a lot of them to try them out, and I'll be contributing here every time I get one working, I can do layouts, more complex circuits can take a longer time, but I'm persistent. Before I knew this forum(last week), I found out this one while looking after solid state preamps:
http://www.redcircuits.com/Page120.htm
Does anyone heard it already? I have a layout done for this one, as soon as finish building it will be my first release here.
It's been a while since I've started building guitar effects, for my own use, and over an year that I've built my first amplifier, a TDA7294 with clean an dirt preamp, the preamps were both found at www.handmades.com, they call it "pré-clean" and "marshallizer", the clean channel has a good sound, nice to tune, but it really messes the tone of my pedals, I can't find a good distortion tone combined with that clean preamp, the dirt is the same, I really didn't liked it, it has a good distortion, more to overdrive, sounds like a low power marshall amp, but it's awful with muted notes, I have two guitars, one is 20 years old with weak pickups, and the other is my first guitar, with more powerfull pickups, both sound weird with the dirt preamp, I'm using a handmade Sans-Amp GT2 as a preamp for now, that one is awesome except for the fact it doesn't have a "mid" control. Now I'm having more time to work on my projects so I decided to find a good match of preamps to use on my amp, I'm looking all over for different preamps, nothing special, I just want to try a lot of them to find out what I like, for a clean I wanted something that wouldn't mess the tone of my distortion pedals when I use them, and for the dirt I wanted a more defined distortion, doesn't need to have too much gain, just enough.
Now, my point is, what I want with this thread, is to talk about it, to know what do you guys like on a preamp, what suggestions of good ones do you know, as I said on other thread, I'm willing to build a lot of them to try them out, and I'll be contributing here every time I get one working, I can do layouts, more complex circuits can take a longer time, but I'm persistent. Before I knew this forum(last week), I found out this one while looking after solid state preamps:
http://www.redcircuits.com/Page120.htm
Does anyone heard it already? I have a layout done for this one, as soon as finish building it will be my first release here.