AFF
06.01.09, 6:51 PM
This may be a quick and easy fix ... at least I hope.
Okay I modded my ds-1 and it came out pretty good. I lost a little bit of something and I am not sure what. The best way to describe would be it takes a little more to make it get to the sweet spot than what I was hoping.
I used a 5mm LED in the D4 position and a 1n4001 in the D5 position. It gives a nice modern tube gain sound from the little orange guy but it takes a little more push to get it where I want.
I am thinking of two things ...
1. Should I go ahead and replace the larger 5mm LED (clear/blue) with a red, green, yellow, or orange 3mm LED. Probably red or green because yellow would take to much push to get where I want it and orange is not as common as the other three LEDs.
2. Should I leave the 5mm LED and add the other 3mm LED? If I do that how would I accomplish this? Can I solder the new one's neg leg to the 5mm's positive leg? Should I remove the positive side of the 5mm and then place the positive side of 3mm in and solder them together. Or 3mm Neg*Pos 5mm pos Neg???
I need some help. I am sure someone knows what I am talking about. I can offer more detail if you need. I will send you my mod parts list in PM if you need me to. Thank you so much.
Thanks for everyone's help ... with all the help I think I would have stuck my soldering iron through my eyes already.
I am learning more and more each day so I should hopefully only have to ask a few questions.
Thanks
AFF
Okay I modded my ds-1 and it came out pretty good. I lost a little bit of something and I am not sure what. The best way to describe would be it takes a little more to make it get to the sweet spot than what I was hoping.
I used a 5mm LED in the D4 position and a 1n4001 in the D5 position. It gives a nice modern tube gain sound from the little orange guy but it takes a little more push to get it where I want.
I am thinking of two things ...
1. Should I go ahead and replace the larger 5mm LED (clear/blue) with a red, green, yellow, or orange 3mm LED. Probably red or green because yellow would take to much push to get where I want it and orange is not as common as the other three LEDs.
2. Should I leave the 5mm LED and add the other 3mm LED? If I do that how would I accomplish this? Can I solder the new one's neg leg to the 5mm's positive leg? Should I remove the positive side of the 5mm and then place the positive side of 3mm in and solder them together. Or 3mm Neg*Pos 5mm pos Neg???
I need some help. I am sure someone knows what I am talking about. I can offer more detail if you need. I will send you my mod parts list in PM if you need me to. Thank you so much.
Thanks for everyone's help ... with all the help I think I would have stuck my soldering iron through my eyes already.
I am learning more and more each day so I should hopefully only have to ask a few questions.
Thanks
AFF