New Revision for 2021
- Tight switch moved to front of enclosure
- Improved component layout
- 1/4W resistor footprints
Controls
- Bass – Controls the bass frequencies
- Treble – Controls the treble frequencies
- Presence – Controls the upper mid-range frequencies
- Volume – Controls the output volume
- Mid – Controls the midrange frequencies
- Gain – Controls the amount of gain
- Tight (Toggle switch) – Controls the pre-gain low end frequencies
Specifications
- Designed for a 125B enclosure with top-mounted jacks
Harald Edelsbacher (verified owner) –
I dont know the original but this is awesome.
Tom (verified owner) –
Best dirt pedal.
Jeff (verified owner) –
Great PCB, a little tight on the resistor placement but fits without problems in a 125B enclosure.
Richard Couchman –
Great partner for the Thermionic distortion, The EQ is really good and can shape from crunch to full on dirt.
DollyClonesFX (verified owner) –
A very good clone of dirty shirley circuit, high quality PCB.
marios (verified owner) –
Really awesome pedal with loads of dirt if needed! Really nice PCB with nice placement although it’s a bit tights on the resistors as mentioned by other user as well.
mattdrago (verified owner) –
Honestly, pretty underwhelmed with this pedal. I used good quality parts, NE5532AP op-amps which have always been incredible for the price, good signal routing so minimize noise, the works. Definitely not my first rodeo. But I didn’t like the way it distorted, I couldn’t dial it in the way I wanted to so it always sounded overly compressed but still somehow not enough dirt either. I figured with 6 knobs and a toggle switch I could easily find several configurations that sounded great for different applications, but the tone controls didn’t give me as much range as I expected them to. I’ve never tried the Friedman Dirty Shirley, so maybe I just don’t like the original pedal that this is based on. I bought a bunch of different Distortion PCBs from here recently and out of all the ones I built, this was my least favorite.
Rixroxx (verified owner) –
Of all my dirt Pedal PCB builds, i consider this to be the best sounding distortion. It can do nice crunch and heavy sound. Even my brother who plays guitar too was impressed by the definition of distortion. This will definitely has permanent place on my pedal board.