ValveCaster Overdrive

Tube Overdrive and Boost from 9 volts

A fellow named matsumin posted a very interesting overdrive circuit using a 12AU7 tube powered by nothing more than a 9 volt battery. This led to some experimentations on my part, and then I took them over to diystompboxes.com and created a thread on the forum about my experience with this nifty idea.

A big huge thread over ondiystompboxes.comthat discusses all this:

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=63479.0

 

That was back in 2007. The thread is now over 150 pages long and has a lot of great discussion on this circuit, how to build it,  modifications, using other tubes, etc. So here's the basic schematic, some build instructions, and several variations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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