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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Seymour Duncan Dirty Deed

Here's a pretty interesting distortion from Seymour Duncan. 2N3906 transistors for hard clipping and a two band gyrator EQ section. Originals I assume are all SMD and use MC33178 ICs, which I believe are equivalent to the LM833, but other dual opamps should work fine. Schematic here. Should be able to squeeze it in a 1590B with small profile jacks.


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2 comments:

  1. JohnMarch 6, 2020 at 2:58 PM

    Hii . . .
    Why transistor can make sound clean, overdrive and distortion?
    Sorry its stupid question 😀

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  2. JDTNovember 14, 2021 at 4:07 PM

    Verifed.

    I used some LM833's as suggested, and got within 4% of the precision resistor values. The net result is at least close to the demo video: a hard rock/metal distortion with focused mids and a useful 2-band EQ. The sound can seem tight to the point of being stiff, but that might be a good thing in a band mix.

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