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zerksies
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Posted - 04/01/2010 :  14:14:22  Show Profile  Send zerksies an AOL message  Click to see zerksies's MSN Messenger address  Send zerksies a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Been looking at schematics for both pedals, very,very simular has anyone has sucess doing this mod or instructions for doing this

Laurie
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Posted - 04/01/2010 :  14:48:46  Show Profile  Visit Laurie's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Never done it... just looks like ripping out the tone control is all it would take...
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cctsim
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Posted - 04/01/2010 :  15:02:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The link below explains it in detail:

http://www.erikhansen.net/pedal-mods/boss-sd-1-mods/conversion-to-od-1-specs

...or you could keep the tone control at 12:00

Edited by - cctsim on 04/01/2010 15:12:11
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ChristoMephisto
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Posted - 04/01/2010 :  15:37:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Nice little pedal the OD1 clone is...
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zerksies
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Posted - 04/01/2010 :  17:54:02  Show Profile  Send zerksies an AOL message  Click to see zerksies's MSN Messenger address  Send zerksies a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by cctsim

The link below explains it in detail:

http://www.erikhansen.net/pedal-mods/boss-sd-1-mods/conversion-to-od-1-specs

...or you could keep the tone control at 12:00


I tried that, i guess buy the instructions i remove 5@11 and run a wire from 8 to the resistor in r7's open end
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ChristoMephisto
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Posted - 04/02/2010 :  06:17:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Those instructions are pretty correct, easier way is to just remove the tone pot and the wires at 5,8,11, and C5,R8
he makes it confusing by leaving the tone pot and wires in...
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hot tubes
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Canada
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Posted - 04/02/2010 :  15:52:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Question ...is there a tone benifit to doing this mod ? it seems you would be going backwards with removing the tone control .
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zerksies
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Posted - 04/02/2010 :  15:56:54  Show Profile  Send zerksies an AOL message  Click to see zerksies's MSN Messenger address  Send zerksies a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
well basically the sd-1 is an od-1 with a tone control, but the sd-1 sounds alot better without the tone control
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bside2234
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USA
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Posted - 04/02/2010 :  21:52:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Why not a Tone Bypass switch a la Big Muff?
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hot tubes
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Canada
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Posted - 04/02/2010 :  23:46:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by zerksies

well basically the sd-1 is an od-1 with a tone control, but the sd-1 sounds alot better without the tone control


really ? whats the story with that ...?
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