Crazynutz drew the schematic, and built one for me. It does sound good, but not as good as psychodave’s clips.
Yeah, Crazynutz, thats the guy. I wonder whatever happened to him? He used to post some cool shit.
I believe Psycodave liked to use a cab with G12H30 anniversary speakers, which sound really good with diode clipping circuits.
Could explain the diff in the sound of your amp.
If Crazynutz built it, it should be pretty close. That guy knew what he was doing.
Funny story: I was intending to build one of these back in the day. I saved the schematics, and referencing Psycodave's pics, I collected up all the correct value and brand caps and parts to do the mod, right down to the funky Erie ceramic disc cap for the nfb circuit.
I also have a donor amp, and its all in a big box in storage somewhere.
Life turned into a giant Covid shitstorm, and I never built the amp.
I should probably go and look for that shit.
All the vids sound great for sure.