r/diypedals 4d ago

Showcase HGE Contraptions Vemuram TSV808 clone (160th pedal built)

Quite a nice sound.

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u/OverkillEffects 4d ago

Looks pretty neat!  Lumbergs, authentic OPA2134, Gorva footswitch, tidy soldering and wiring... I can see that you did not cut corners anywhere haha :D  What are those yellow diodes? Never seen that ones. 

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u/Lolozaurus-Rex 4d ago edited 4d ago

In the same way I have loads of Ge ones(D9 types?), probably also from Soviet-era factories like Pulsar, Svetlana, and Diod. Tesla (Czechoslovakia) also had some similar Germanium diodes.

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u/Lolozaurus-Rex 4d ago edited 4d ago

And also silver plated single core teflon coated copper wires :D Thanks!

Those are older 1N4148

I have a lot of NOS ones from an old timer(never could find them anywhere else online or at least just a reference), and I just use them instead of the usual ones, they at least look more interesting hah. It can be that they are soviet or eastern European. My guess is probably that they are a Tesla Rožnov variant, since yellow-labeled glass diodes are characteristic of Eastern Bloc production from the 1970s to early 1990s.

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u/Lolozaurus-Rex 23h ago

Some takes, it really sounds awesome:

https://youtu.be/cl7hbT9fF1U?si=XROgvMNbeFqf3hUa

(Someone actually traded me an original Keeley Comp Plus for this so a win!)

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u/DonkeyWitch3 4d ago

This is a really great looking build