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Too bad that the TS5 doesn't belong to the models that had a metal chassis in the first edition. People stepping on and cracking the battery cover was sort of the main design flaw on those, but from my experiences, they actually hold up a bit better than the metal chassis 10 series did. I believe t...

Pepe wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:07 pm

Not a bad guess, zentropa! It's not a Keeley. The pedal's colour is quite similar, but the colour of the original pedal, that this one is mimicking, is another one.

Other guesses would be some form of Nobels ODR-1 or a Wampler Belle

Pepe wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:14 pm

Another hint for what I received from Laurie:
- the colour makes the pedal pretend to have the sound of this famous pedal, but in fact it is a clone of that one with another colour.

Keeley DS-9?

Pepe wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 03, 2024 10:39 am

Interesting! But the headroom of the distortion + is really just enough for me and my Stratocaster.

Yeah. Doesn’t do quite as well with my les pauls, sadly.

Pepe wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:48 pm

Headroom is a little bit low, but absolutely okay for me. Nice breakup at minimum gain already.

Both the d+ and the ross definitely have headroom issues. The od250 does not due to the silicon clipping diodes.

The TU-3w is black, so for me, it is different enough to buy for my collection. I bought the BP-1W, FZ-1W, TU-3S and you have made me lean in the direction of buying the CE-2W. I wish they would just release it as the CE-1 or make a CE-1 on compact form. The CE-2W has the volume reduction resistor ...

laurie wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:35 pm

I have a new solution. A main stereo board, and two bypassable sub-boards. So far it is going well. I'm chasing the last few ground-loops, but conceptually it is working perfectly:

That switching setup is pretty badass.

That is very technical and very true. Good catch! I was referring to compact form. I would probably count the TB-2W and CE-2W in there then :) If are you are trying to avoid redundancy, here are my thoughts on the pedals not already mentioned that are significantly different after owning all of the...

I have never seen the guts of a Distortion + until today. It's funny to see that it is such a compact circuit with only 16 components for everything (including the buffer for the bypass with the simple SPDT footswitch). Yeah. When I was doing my big board of classic circuits my research yielded tha...

There are varying degrees of technical you can get with it, as technically 2 of the 3 BP-1W modes have been done before, but not in compact form.

Some others that are open to interpretation:
TB-2W
CE-2W due to its CE-1 mode.