ErikH
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I posted this over at diystompboxes.com and thought I'd share it here too.
Since I have a Wylde Overdrive which is a SD-1 anway, I decided to take my SD-1 and convert it to TS-808 specs as much as possible.
So, I got both schematics and compared them, noting what I had to change and what was changed already from previous mods. In the end, I changed something like 13 components. There's more than that in the differences between the two circuits but a few of them had already been done already. Between previous mods and changing the rest, I've got 16 component differences. There's more like 20 differences +/- between a SD-1 and TS-808.
Off I went with the iron and desoldering braid. Little by little the SD-1 sounded more and more like an 808, but not exactly. It'll never sound exactly like one because I didn't change components in the tone control section and the pots values are different between the two. But the changes that I did make gave me the "flavor" I was looking for. All in all, a good experiment with much success. This is a conversion that I never thought I'd do a couple years ago.
All of the changes I did are documented on my site. If you want to sacrifice a SD-1 and do this, go for it. The changes can be found here, http://www.erikhansen.net/?page_id=29, under the heading "The Almost-TS-808 Conversion".
Enjoy!
Since I have a Wylde Overdrive which is a SD-1 anway, I decided to take my SD-1 and convert it to TS-808 specs as much as possible.
So, I got both schematics and compared them, noting what I had to change and what was changed already from previous mods. In the end, I changed something like 13 components. There's more than that in the differences between the two circuits but a few of them had already been done already. Between previous mods and changing the rest, I've got 16 component differences. There's more like 20 differences +/- between a SD-1 and TS-808.
Off I went with the iron and desoldering braid. Little by little the SD-1 sounded more and more like an 808, but not exactly. It'll never sound exactly like one because I didn't change components in the tone control section and the pots values are different between the two. But the changes that I did make gave me the "flavor" I was looking for. All in all, a good experiment with much success. This is a conversion that I never thought I'd do a couple years ago.
All of the changes I did are documented on my site. If you want to sacrifice a SD-1 and do this, go for it. The changes can be found here, http://www.erikhansen.net/?page_id=29, under the heading "The Almost-TS-808 Conversion".
Enjoy!
