BYOC Yellow Overdrive (Boss OD-1 Clone)

[ErikH]

I finally had time to build this thing. We've had so much going on. So glad I was able to get it done. This is one great overdrive. Takes me back to when I first started playing and a friend lent me his original OD-1 for a while. The graphic is Rip from Yellowstone. I've already had a few people mention Hank Jr...LOL. It was a fun project to do.

That TC Electronic 3rd Dimension is my Christmas present from my wife. Killer pedal.

[LLL]

Hey you missed a resistor!

[LLL]

No looks great! Funny graphic too

[ErikH]

LOL. Thanks. I'm going to put "Let's Rip" below the foot switch. My wife did that on her Cricket machine.

[LLL]

I usually run mine with level cranked and dist 9-10 o clock

[ErikH]

I've been playing with different settings. Last night I had the level at noon and the drive at around 2 to 3 o'clock.

[dave74]

Are these just like the sd1 without a tone? I like my black sd1 as a dirty-amp booster with level max, gain around 8:30, and tone about 10:00.

[ErikH]

Same basic circuit design and premise but different in which input/output on the IC as well as some other different part values. The original OD-1 used a 14-pin IC chip. It handled the usual IC functionality as an 8-pin but also the input/output buffers of the circuit. Later versions of the OD-1 used an 8-pin IC and transistors for the input/output buffers, like the SD-1 does. The exception is the OD-1 IC signal flow input/output was the same as how it was with the 14-pin (inverted vs non-inverted), opposite of what the SD-1 is. Those 8-pin versions are a lot more similar to the SD-1 than this circuit is. This is probably a lot more than you wanted to know. lol. Same kind of drive, yeah. To me it sounds bigger than the SD-1.

[LLL]

OD-1 on the freq analyzer looks somewhat like a perfect half moon, with the peak at 800Hz.

It has a perfect hi-pass slope... cuts all the unwanted mushy low end out.

[dave74]

Oh yeah I remember the Wampler comparison video now you mentioned the analyzer. I really like the extra lows of the sd1 but It's probably because most of my guitars have pickups that are already fairly compressed.

[ArtieToo]

Does kinda look like Hank. Enjoy.

[Dudeman7]

Nice and clean build! Enjoy it.

Those BYOC kits are fun and they are truly great sounding pedals. Highly underrated, IMO. I have built close to thirty of them over the past year and a lot of them have replaced expensive, boutique pedals that I had been using.

Be careful though. They are known to be habit forming.

[Mincer]

Nice and clean build! Enjoy it.

Those BYOC kits are fun and they are truly great sounding pedals. Highly underrated, IMO. I have built close to thirty of them over the past year and a lot of them have replaced expensive, boutique pedals that I had been using.

Be careful though. They are known to be habit forming.

Wow, that's a lot! I've build maybe 5, but I'd be interested in what you've built and what you like the best.

[Dudeman7]

So far, I have done 2 Mouse kits, 2 Soaring Skillets, 3 Analog Chorus, 2 Li'l Fuzz, 2 Triangle Large Beavers, 2 Ram's Head Large Beaver, 3 Classic Delays, 5 Classic Phasers, 1 Tremolo, 1 Brownface Harmonic Tremolo, 1 Silver Pony II, 1 Envelope Filter/Fixed Wah and 2 Analog Delays.

I guess that's 27?

Some of the ones I made multiples of were for friends. Of the ones I kept, the Soaring Skillet, Large Beavers, Analog Delay, Classic Phaser and the Mouse are favorites.

The Analog Chorus is a terrific CE-2 with next to zero noise and the Analog Delay (Boss DM-2) is so good that I sold my original Boss from the early 80's for a ridiculous price. The BYOC sounds indistinguishable but the bypass doesn't kill your tone like the original.

I'm a fan.

[Dudeman7]

There are a bunch of BYOC pedals scattered among these boards.