The shakedown of my perfboard built Tube Screamer. It has more clarity and is quite grittier and more biting compared to the stock 808, while maintaining the signature character. Pretty satisfied with the performance. Recorded into my Silverface Bassman (set up clean) with UA OX. Double DL4s are responsible for the loops (which is so much fun on its own).
We are approaching the wiring stage and installation into the enclosure. Despite their vintage, the performance of new old stock components is flawless. The only drawback is that they’re tricky to source, those red resistors especially. Next we’ll highlight the capacitors, which are a quite cool selection too.
I was drilling holes in this PCB for the MAPE build. And I’m using a really sharp tool to mark up the board, when the damn thing just snaps right in half! Lucky for me I didn’t stab myself. But I’m also out of luck because I got just enough 808s to fill the orders, plus one reference unit for myself. Getting another one now would take forever, and we’d end up with an unused enclosure (quite a pricey enclosure). By total coincidence, I just bought a couple of 1980 JRC4558D ICs recently. And I had a bakelite perfboard lying around too. So I figured, I’ll rebuild the whole pedal old school style with some cool vintage components I’ve got in my reserves. So stick around, this ought to be good!
