Tweaker
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I started building this about three weeks ago or so (I think...) and was missing two capacitors...then I had a relapse in my mental health! As a result, I just barely was able to get the parts I needed to finish this project today.
I gambled with this one...I was feeling pretty confident in myself and decided to hook up everything without testing it first...
Believe it or not, it worked right off the bat!!
Let me just say, I love the Crunch Box!! What a pedal man, holy crap...this thing ROARS!!! Not a pedal for the faint of heart. I had read that this circuit was somewhat of a one trick pony and emulates the JCM800 very well. Allow me to disagree...with the gain all the way down, this sucker actually works as a pretty cool clean boost. The tone and presence knobs work beautifully together to get all sorts of cool tonal possibilities. I will say this guy doesn't do lower gain all that well...once you leave the clean boost area, it jumps into pretty gain-y turf relatively quickly. Seems like as you turn up the gain, the gain level doesn't change so much as the gain character changes, if that makes sense. To be fair though, I haven't really messed around with low-medium gain settings. It will do them, but you have to find the sweet spot on the gain knob and tweak the controls a bit.
Anyways, onto the pictures, which is why I know most of you check these threads out
And for the surgeons in the room:
Not my cleanest wiring job, but I tried something different this time (and probably what most of you pros do all the time)...I secured the pots to the box first. Probably would have worked better had I used stranded wire, but it was a learning experience. I think one reason I was able to pull it off is because I only had three connections on one side of the board. With most of the connections on the other side, I was able to maneuver the PCB a bit.
Anyways, thanks for stopping by! I'll work on getting a sound clip up soon
I gambled with this one...I was feeling pretty confident in myself and decided to hook up everything without testing it first...
Believe it or not, it worked right off the bat!!
Let me just say, I love the Crunch Box!! What a pedal man, holy crap...this thing ROARS!!! Not a pedal for the faint of heart. I had read that this circuit was somewhat of a one trick pony and emulates the JCM800 very well. Allow me to disagree...with the gain all the way down, this sucker actually works as a pretty cool clean boost. The tone and presence knobs work beautifully together to get all sorts of cool tonal possibilities. I will say this guy doesn't do lower gain all that well...once you leave the clean boost area, it jumps into pretty gain-y turf relatively quickly. Seems like as you turn up the gain, the gain level doesn't change so much as the gain character changes, if that makes sense. To be fair though, I haven't really messed around with low-medium gain settings. It will do them, but you have to find the sweet spot on the gain knob and tweak the controls a bit.
Anyways, onto the pictures, which is why I know most of you check these threads out
And for the surgeons in the room:
Not my cleanest wiring job, but I tried something different this time (and probably what most of you pros do all the time)...I secured the pots to the box first. Probably would have worked better had I used stranded wire, but it was a learning experience. I think one reason I was able to pull it off is because I only had three connections on one side of the board. With most of the connections on the other side, I was able to maneuver the PCB a bit.
Anyways, thanks for stopping by! I'll work on getting a sound clip up soon
How great are those Small Bear pot covers? I buy them by the thousands, afraid I won't be able to get more when I run out 
