The Dinosaural Tube Bender from Dan Coggins of Lovetone fame, who now designs for Thorpy FX. The Thorpy Fat General compressor is actually a Dinosaural OTC-201 Opticompressor. You can read up on that here.
This is the most recent trace from Aion Electronics. Aion do a pretty good job of tracing to say the least, so I expect it to be accurate.
This is different to the magazine version schematic, which has the same topology but with some different values. I built one based on the magazine version a while back, and binned it pretty quickly - couldn't work out what the fuss was about, as it was rather disappointing.
I've built and tested this version, and it's nice little overdrive. Runs from very clean, right through to a heavy drive, with a some very usable tones along the way.
The Aion Electronics includes a tone switch mod for more variety, and a bit more power filtering and protection. I'd recommend building the Aion version, as you get more flexibility for limited additional cost and effort.
DINOSAURAL TUBE BENDER - VERO LAYOUT
AION ELECTRONICS WYVERN - VERO LAYOUT
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DINOSAURAL TUBE BENDER ON THE SCOPE
A really good pedal. Thanks for the stripboard. I've not get to play it much, but it sounds really nice !
ReplyDeleteNo problem - It's kind of an odd one for me in some ways. Lots of very usable tones, and will sit nicely in a mix, but for some reason it just didn't excite me. Seems to be more workhorse than show pony if that makes sense.
DeleteI see what you mean, yes. I must say that I listened a bit some songs of the Snow Patrol's album to know where I was going with this, but didn't expect a thing from it.
DeleteI played it more this afternoon, and it's very versatile. I got plenty of good tones out of it. We'll see in the long run, I tend to change my pedalboard often.