Dude that amp sounds absolutely outstanding. If you lived near by I'd have to pester you into let me try it out
Very similar to my layout though I don't think I'll be incorporating transistors HOWEVER, they were in fact part of my original layout but I decided to go a bit more basic since it's my first project of this caliber. When I committed myself to this project, one of my main goals and guidelines was to keep the part count as low as possible and the circuits as simple as possible. Not because I don't think I have the skill level but I believe that the less parts involved, the more pure your guitars signal shall remain.
I have also incorporated a sort of turbo stage but it's much simpler and designed for use with the gain stage which will use cascading diodes. I won't be using as many as you have but have have stumbled onto what I believe is the holy grail to op amp based distortion circuits.
My switching will be pretty classic and just toggle between the clean and dirty channels.
Here's the thing about the op amp overdrive I recently stumbled onto but won't be using in my amp, it doesn't incorporate a single diode or component to clip the signal, the distortion is a genuine result of overdriving the NE5532. It actually sounds good but I'm not sure what's going on, the circuit fouled up on me, I tinkered a bit and for some reason this happened.
Now, this leads me to a question I've posed before and everyone said no but I don't think anyone telling me it wouldn't work, has actually tried what I am proposing.
Using a series of op amps to gradually overdrive one another with mild amounts of gain. Say you use 3 dual op amps, that's 6 gain stages cascading one into the next. I am willing to bet you can overdrive an op amp and get excellent results with this cascading technique. I plan to build this circuit when it's more convenient. I'm currently tackling my preamp project for my amp which of course is using a more practical gain style circuit, similar to yours.
I'm not a novice but also no veteran, I keep running into snags. I've built distortion pedals before, modified store bought pedals, modified my Crate S.S. so extensively it's no longer even a Crate and am a veteran speaker builder for home car and pro audio. It's ashame there isn't a more convenient and affordable way to print up circuit boards, this perf board building really sucks and I don't have a proto-board which I really need to break down and buy to make this current project advance at a more acceptable pace.
I really like your design though, sounds like it's worth marketing, especially when none of the commercial amp companies get this intelligent with their s.s. designs. They're good but certainly not great which is why the myth of tube superiority continues to thrive.
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Very similar to my layout though I don't think I'll be incorporating transistors HOWEVER, they were in fact part of my original layout but I decided to go a bit more basic since it's my first project of this caliber. When I committed myself to this project, one of my main goals and guidelines was to keep the part count as low as possible and the circuits as simple as possible. Not because I don't think I have the skill level but I believe that the less parts involved, the more pure your guitars signal shall remain.
I have also incorporated a sort of turbo stage but it's much simpler and designed for use with the gain stage which will use cascading diodes. I won't be using as many as you have but have have stumbled onto what I believe is the holy grail to op amp based distortion circuits.
My switching will be pretty classic and just toggle between the clean and dirty channels.
Here's the thing about the op amp overdrive I recently stumbled onto but won't be using in my amp, it doesn't incorporate a single diode or component to clip the signal, the distortion is a genuine result of overdriving the NE5532. It actually sounds good but I'm not sure what's going on, the circuit fouled up on me, I tinkered a bit and for some reason this happened.
Now, this leads me to a question I've posed before and everyone said no but I don't think anyone telling me it wouldn't work, has actually tried what I am proposing.
Using a series of op amps to gradually overdrive one another with mild amounts of gain. Say you use 3 dual op amps, that's 6 gain stages cascading one into the next. I am willing to bet you can overdrive an op amp and get excellent results with this cascading technique. I plan to build this circuit when it's more convenient. I'm currently tackling my preamp project for my amp which of course is using a more practical gain style circuit, similar to yours.
I'm not a novice but also no veteran, I keep running into snags. I've built distortion pedals before, modified store bought pedals, modified my Crate S.S. so extensively it's no longer even a Crate and am a veteran speaker builder for home car and pro audio. It's ashame there isn't a more convenient and affordable way to print up circuit boards, this perf board building really sucks and I don't have a proto-board which I really need to break down and buy to make this current project advance at a more acceptable pace.
I really like your design though, sounds like it's worth marketing, especially when none of the commercial amp companies get this intelligent with their s.s. designs. They're good but certainly not great which is why the myth of tube superiority continues to thrive.
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