MENATONE: Red Snapper Overdrive

I'd never heard of these until this morning - and I could not believe the second-hand prices of the original...   especially considering the new price of a hand-made pedal from the builder.

It's kind of a Timmy x boutique Tubescreamer type thing - can find the schematic here.   Dual tin can opamp is required - hope this is the layout you were looking for.  

  

MENATONE RED SNAPPER OVERDRIVE

HUDSON: Sidecar Overdrive

I did a layout for the Hudson Sidecar a couple of years ago, and I retraced my steps recently and found a few things that needed to be updated.  The Sidecar is a progression of the 999 Overdrive, which is Hudson's version of a 'green box' overdrive, made for people like me that don't like the green box.  

There's also another variation out there called the Motorcycle, which sounds like the same circuit that's been retuned for a bit more low drive, with the addition of an output transformer, not unlike the Broadcast.  My guess is the 470n / 1k off the inverted input stage has been adjusted, maybe a tweak to the bass side of the active eq???.    

Plenty of great pics on FSB  Schematic on PedalPCB

The layout below should be pretty close to a version of the original from 2017.   0.15" vero, so a tin can IC is a must.

HUDSON SIDECAR  -  0.15" VERO LAYOUT

Note that there are minor variations out there, depending on how Hudson was making them at the time.

EARTHQUAKER DEVICES: Plumes

The Earthquaker Devices Plumes is their take on a Tube Screamer, and it's quite a good one.  It's somewhat simpler than Palisades, which is probably about as far as anyone would want to take a Tube Screamer.  

I'm not one that really likes Tube Screamers a great deal, as I never got the mid-boost and bass cut...  I quite like this one though.  Also, check out the Nobels ODR-S if you like Tube Screamers that don't sound like Tube Screamers (if that makes sense).

EARTHQUAKER DEVICES PLUMES - VERO LAYOUT

This is my second layout for Plumes, the first was a little cramped, so I spaced things out a bit.  Need a bit of room for the 1uf caps.  

Now, if you did want to head towards something more like a Dunes / Palisades, you could quite easily make daughter boards for the voice and bandwidth controls.  It's just diodes and caps on rotary switches.

 

The Schematic is in the build docs on Pedal PCB

And a smaller layout, with all the connections for pots and switches on one side.

ON THE SCOPE / FFT

INPUT SIGNAL:  440hz sine wave, approx 130mv TRMS

 

volume varies to suit.  note: B25K used for tone control, as I didn't have a W20K

 

 

 

Clean boost - no diodes.  There's a lot of level on tap.

 

 

Full gain - no diodes.  Again, just cranked and headed into square wave territory.  note:  even though it looks a bit square on the scope, it's nowhere near fuzz - clean boost with some dirt at the end of the range is the sound.  Meant to hit your amp with some level.

 

 

 

  

Silicon diodes - looking very much like a Tube Screamer now (tone 50%, gain 100%).

 

 

 

LEDs - similar to the silicon diodes, but with a bit more hair and more level (tone 50%, gain 100%).  Like anything diode related and clipping - it's a less compressed sound, more open due to the higher forward voltage of the diodes.