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Friday, May 29, 2015

Run Off Groove Condor Cab Sim

Part of the last request included a cab simulator to run the headphone amp through. The ROG Condor is a great cab sim and has a fairly low parts count. It uses a JFET amplifier at the input, boosting the signal to drive the following 3 filters (Bridged-T notch filter, High-pass filter, and Low-pass filter). Much more info on the circuit can be found here, as well as a few mods. J201 apparently sounds the best for Q1, but similar DSG pinout JFETs will also work. Any dual opamps can be used for the 2 ICs, so socket and try the usual candidates (TL072, JRC4558, etc).


20 comments:

  1. layout tested , works fine , gorgeous pedal, would like to see after the modifications to Marshal this layout. thank you

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  2. hey,
    How much should be the glow on the transistor?
    How much value to expose on the variable

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  3. This pedal can replace an amp
    Can i use this in a live session and go direct to PA?

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    1. You'd still need something like a direct box to go to the PA, but theoretically yes.

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    1. Yep. Sweep might be a little off but it’ll still work

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    2. Which comes at the end of the chain - this or looper?

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  5. Can i add a di box after this cabsim?
    (Guitar -> cabsim -> di box)

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  8. How's it going, bros?
    I think there's a 1nF cap missing on the non inverting input of the last op amp. It was supposed to connect to ground from there, according to the schematic.
    Thanks for the layout!

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    1. You're absolutely right. There's indeed a 1nf cap missing from pin 5 to ground on the 2nd op amp. It doesn't work properly otherwise (there's an unbearable wall of noises without this cap).

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  9. the voltage is 4.5 volts for transistors? can I exchange the trim for a 22k to reduce it to 4.5 volts?

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  10. so you run the cab sim into the headphone amp? howd that turn out? should you leave the volume put on the condor?

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