Thomas Henry BD++

Maybe just cause I had too short of decay or something but to my ear like 80% of the “sound” is coming from the shell

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Nooooooooo! It’s essential to be able to turn shell down and back up :scream:

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Yes, but you may want to tweak that over the course of a track.

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Maybe I’m just using it wrong or haven’t seen the benefit yet. I’ll leave it lol

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I mean, even just to be able to use the whole thing for something like a rim shot.

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How do you feel about the capacitor swap to get lower frequencies? That will be a plug and play users choice just curious. I haven’t tried it on the strip board yet. Supposedly it still has a lot of high end even with the swap. The standard setup can damn near go above audible frequencies, which is cool, maybe a little more control of the bottom 75% would be better

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I didn’t do it myself, but it sounds boss and I do like bass :smiley:

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love this kit got it when it was a 4 way sMS pcb

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That’s just gorgeous! Fingers crossed that it works :crossed_fingers:

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I feel like someone ripped out the last three pages of a book here. How’d this work out?

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I asked Cory about it a while back. He has the stripboard version working without the mods. He was having issues with getting one or all of the mods to work. He put it aside and I dont think he has gone back to it yet. That’s my memory of the conversation.

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Link to Juanito Moore version, maybe some interesting mods here

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I was swimming the other way, starting from that link and thinking “didn’t someone do a Kosmo BD++?” leading me to this old and painfully truncated topic.

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There was not mine on this thread :grin:

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@Dud you have two tone pots, where did you connect the second one and what does it do? Is that just an additional low pass?

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yes i’ve add a master tone pot :slight_smile:

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The best and sadly least used guitar effect.

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I finished the standard build (the stripboard from the very first post) and it sounds really nice!

However, the impact pot introduces clipping already at round 5% or so… In some configurations I can push it up to 20% but not more, otherwise it’s really clipping. I assume that it should work on the full range? :laughing:

Edit: I am wondering if this is related to the 12V gate output of the BSP and running with ±12V, while the original layout is designed to work with a ±15V system. Maybe that one is OK with 12V gates?

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You can maybe try to put an attenuator between your gate out of BSP and the Tigger IN of BD++ , and decrease a little the signal to see if it’s better for you ?

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