Its been a couple months since I have built something, but I have a renewed inspiration. With the following parameters in mind, what would be a good build, to achieve a medium gain ,amp like od or dist. sound [fuzzy crunchy chords.]. I want to use what I have on hand,and thats two 5088 and 2n7000. Iwas thinking that it would be nice to have the 2n7000 as q1. It would overdrive the 5088's. I personally like the mosfet sound . and with the high gain of the 5088 the combination of the two would be awesome........... Has anyone ever used the amz moss booster as q1 and followed it with a couple of 5088. If there is an schematic out there that fits these requirments that I have missed would somebody fill me in. This is not a requirement but with a 2n7000 as q1 it should cleanup nice at lower gains.
Well.......
2 silicons and 1 mosfet.....
first thought is a FF.
can use fet as input preamp,
OR
can use fet as output crunch.
mayB U don't need 2 uses *all* three... :-)
Check out Multi-Face Article on Runoffgroove.com. Could also do a ToneBender. 8)
If that's what I had to work with, I think I would try breadboarding the AMZ mosfet boost, overdriving the 2N5088 with Joe Davisson's Vulcan technology.
Cool idea. Or use the 5088's for a Black Fire Stage and the AMZ Boost or Joe's boost on the same site with the polarity reveresed.
The Blue Magic does something very similar to what you describe as far as the concept goes. It sounds like you want something that has a lot more gain, though. Maybe you could mod this circuit to have more gain by adding one or two more gain stages and tweaking stuff a little.
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/bmagic.html
You're right, I probably got that idea from Jake's Blue Magic (and its predecessor, the X-Fet), but instead of overdriving a jfet with the mosfet, I'd like to try out the Vulcan.
Has anyone compared the sound of the vulcan to the blackfire? I really like the blackfire but whenever Joe comes out with something new I'm always interested.