This is a library of perfboard and single-sided PCB effect layouts for guitar and bass. I'm not an electrical engineer by any stretch of the imagination, just a DIY'er who likes drawing layouts. It is meant for the hobbyist (so commercial use of any of these layout is not allowed without permission) and as a way to give back to the online DIY community.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Way Huge Drive/Geisha Drive

The Geisha Drive (or just called Drive sometimes) was a limited run overdrive from Way Huge and is a great sounding circuit. It uses a quad opamp to form an input buffer stage, gain stage, followed by some hard clipping and a modified BMP tone stack, into the volume pot, followed by a gain recovery stage. Should fit nicely in a 1590B with the pots board mounted.


6 comments:

  1. hi everybody!
    just finished the pcb version and it works great!
    i could,t get the jrc4741 chip, so i used some old behringer quad op-amps (BE037)
    witch are a simmilar to a LM348! so i think this should work with some lm,s too!!
    many thanks for another great layout ( it,s always a plesure to build some of your stuff)
    i think you can mark it as verified!!
    greetings from austria

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    1. Thanks for verifying and thanks for the kind words!

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  2. LM348 works great, Itried too TL074 but low gain fuzz.

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  3. I have a small problem with this build. It works and sounds fine, but it isn't as a loud as i hoped it would be. Full is below unity. Any ideas how to change that?

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    1. Double check that you have the right value resistors, especially the 47k between pins 8 and 9 of the IC.

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    2. It was indeed a wrong resistor. Instead of the 470 Ohm I used a 470k. Now everything is fine, sounds good and it is loud!! Thanks for your help!

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