hmmm... Tubescreamer ic's and Lovepedal Eternity pedal

[dstroud]

So I popped open my favorite sounding tubescreamer to discover it had an LM833 op amp, my other tubescreamer's have the correct JRC4558D chip for 808 specs. But the JRC4558D sounds more fizzy and more harsh than the LM833 - hmmm... So I popped in some different op amps into my BYOC tubescreamer, I found I like the JRC4558D least - I must be wierd, everyone else loves the JRC4558D!
So then I'm recording this part for my instrumental cd and there is a knock on my door (recording at my rehearsal space) and it's my neighbor (these guys have cool gear - Wizard and Clark amps, nice old Les Paul's, ZVex fx) and he goes - come over and check out my new pedal. Turns out it's the Eternity Lovepedal. So he lets me play his vintage sg through his Wizard showing me what the pedal does - and it sounds great. He tells me, borrow it until Monday - well, this thing sounds GREAT through my plexi - kinda tubescreamerish, but a litte more "musical" for lack of a better term. I'm trying to decide if it sounds $279 better than my tubescreamer

 

[dstroud]

There are so many different versions of that Eternity pedal so if you like that one, I would try and make sure you get the same one. I had a black Eternity and a COT50, didn't like either.

Thanks for the heads up - I have a schematic of the pedal the Eternity is supposed to be based off of (Son of Screamer by Jack Orman - basically a simplified Tubescreamer), I'll see if my buddy will pop off the back cover and see if I can see what's going on in there .