Ah.... The good old days

[gtech]

While I was searching for some print-outs of some PCBs I have, unpopulated but etched, I found a few treasures.

Mini-Boosters 1, 2, 3. 4, 5, and 6, Sweet Thing and all.  :roll:

Who remember the MBM-5-ODS?

That was from Jake Nagy...

What about the Shaka 4, 5 or BBQ?

That's from Doug Hammond.

I'm glad I was there back then. Not that it is less interesting today, just different.

It's just that by looking at all these old schematics, I realised how many projects came and were left behind. It's like looking at old pictures of yourself when you were young.  You feel older.

:cry:

Don't worry, I'll feel better by Xmas.  :lol:

Btw, today, I tried the Mini-Booster/Tone Control part of the Shaka-BBQ circuit all by itself with my Fender tube amp. It sounded too bassy.

So, in place of it, I will try the Tube Reamer in tha box where I tried the Mini-Booster/Tone-Control. That was for a test anyway.

Then, I will build the Rat.

Gilles

[Michael Allen]

I have a MiniBooster 2 somewhere. I had some trouble with it so I scoured it for parts. Man that was the perfect box to drive a 50w into some nice classic crunch. Good response to pick attack and volume. Very "glassy" sounding.

I might try another one someday!

[gtech]

You can do a lot of things with this circuit.

It can sound glassy or warm  depending on a few parts changes.

Yesterday, I bought a 5534 and a OP275 to do some sound tests with simple circuits I already have.

But the Mini-Booster is sill part of it somewhere.

Gilles C

[petemoore]

Go ahead and talk about the MB, I do. Here I go...
 I use it Alot. Drives Fuzzes the way I like 'em driven for a nice thick heavy Fuzz like...well alot what your'e Fuzz is like except grindier with more drive, other boosters do this, It could most likely reasonably be replicated with an opamp [see there I go rambling...back to the point], minibooster [mu amps] seem to get the hard rock drive I often look for and can get with it and a distorter like a tube amp/and or with other devices.
 I have a Mosfet Mu-Amp derivitave, WGTP was working with these IIRC, it was the Mu Madness or related schematic, modified and messed with, had 'similar but different' [aren't all boosters? :shock: ] [more mossy... ] performance.

[Mike Burgundy]

the good OLD days?
C'mon, it's not that long ago, and all these circuits are still very much alive!
My minibooster knowledge doesn't go beyond #2 and the sweet thing, go figure - I'm still behind!
The Shaka3 is also very much worth it, as are lots of others.  Joe Gagan's wild circuits, lots of Jack Orman stuff, our own Aron...etc.
Have a look at the original schematics page for ideas.
(Aron, lots of dead links nowadays   :cry:  )
Now Leper's Abode, that's the old days