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]

:lol:

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.

 

[Artie]

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.

 

[ErikH]

My next one might be a Classic phaser or chorus. Not sure yet.

 

[Mincer]

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.

I've built the Overdrive II, original Silver Pony, Wah, 5 knob Compressor & Tremolo. I agree that if you like to tinker with stuff, they are really fun, not too hard, and sound amazing.

 

[NegativeEase]

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.

Nice clean install... nice work...

got bad news though, unless the Film Caps label read facing west, the pedal wont have the magic mojo.

 

[ErikH]

Nice clean install... nice work...

Thanks.

got bad news though, unless the Film Caps label read facing west, the pedal wont have the magic mojo.

Funny you say that because I did install them all in one direction as far as the label read goes.

 

[Dudeman7]

Thanks.



Funny you say that because I did install them all in one direction as far as the label read goes.

Haha! I do the same thing. Color bands on resistors always read from top to bottom or left to right, too.

Being anal about that stuff is OK and it makes me feel like I did everything right. Easy to spot misplaced components too.

I'm really impressed by your build. Nice job!