Re: Pharaoh owners
Posted by
Marbles on
Oct 25, 2016; 5:05am
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Ah yes, ofcourse! Too bad,I thought Leds could give a nice flavour indeed.
I know what you mean with lack of time. I have been on a mission selling a lot of my good quality guitars for, well, great guitars :)
That means I have a great acoustic Gibson that demands time. Don't get me wrong, I understand that mine is by choice, but dividing attention is rough. I need to build a lot to keep learning ;)
Speaking of which.. maybe I did make a build error.. you mentioned it shouldn't be that low. That made me realize; I use the green ring 1n34a diodes. Cause I was working with silicons as well, where the ring is the cathode I think, with the 1n34a its the other way around? In that case I might have placed them backwards which could explain the lack of volume?
Op maandag 24 oktober 2016 heeft rocket88 [via Guitar FX Layouts] <
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it's not a problem man. just saying, you know i'm always fast with helping and investigating, just now i'm slow, which kills me. i've even got a few orders coming and i told them that right now my build time is about 4-6 weeks, when i used to be able to finish an order in about 1-2.
i don't think mine has that low of an output, but it's significantly lower in the Ge setting. with that being said, i don't think it's a build error. it's got to be that the forward voltage of the Ge diodes you're using is lower then the diodes in the stock pharaoh. also, don't forget that what diode you use will change the character of the distortion. the D9E to me is fairly polite and distort later compared to what i typically like, also not as much lows. i think they also have a higher forward voltage then a lot of other Ge diodes, if i remember correctly. but, in any event, i'll check mine when i get home friday and let you know.
the only way you can do that sphere is if you use a rotary switch. otherwise when you select between Ge and Si you're going to be running with the LEDs as well. it may be cool, idk since i've never tried that.
the idea of 4 Ge diodes wont do it, you'd need 6, cause you're going to want to double each diode keep it the same, so you'll have 4 diodes in one direction, and 2 in the other. this will accomplish getting more output and keeping a similar sound.