Put this one together over the Christmas / New Year's break; a clone of the Friedman Smallbox using a board from PedalPCB.
I prefer it over the BE-OD. Which, in my opinion, has too much gain and is way to noisy as a result.
~ Blake.
A Homebrew Friedman Smallbox
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Re: A Homebrew Friedman Smallbox
BE-OD is noisy AF, I turned the trimpot down a ton on mine and its better, still sounds like a cranked marshall too! Will check out some smallbox reviews!
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Re: A Homebrew Friedman Smallbox
I had a Deluxe for a while and turned the trimpot all the way down and that was still too much.
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Re: A Homebrew Friedman Smallbox
The Smallbox amp itself has a percussive chug-chug at high gain settings that's like being punched in the face. Great amp.
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Re: A Homebrew Friedman Smallbox
I built one of these using the PedalPCB board a while back, still my goto for a Marshall sound, great pedal! I popped the toggle onto a second footswitch for the different gain levels, which seemed very usable without having to adjust other knobs, but rarely do it.
Re the BE-OD, I build the PedalPCB variant with the added active mid control also (forgotten what they call the model), and while higher in gain I never thought of it as overly noisy. The joyo version of the BE-OD I tried was thou.
Never tried the real versions of either...
Re the BE-OD, I build the PedalPCB variant with the added active mid control also (forgotten what they call the model), and while higher in gain I never thought of it as overly noisy. The joyo version of the BE-OD I tried was thou.
Never tried the real versions of either...
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