Members thesouthernfire Posted January 26, 2013 Members Share Posted January 26, 2013 I know nearly nothing of circuitry, but I'm dying to try modding this Behringer TO800 ($30 TS9 clone) that I have. So I was wondering if even just switching out the capacitors would be enough to squeeze some better tone out of the thing. Anyone have any ideas of a specific cap to use if it's even worth it?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Reaganomics! Posted January 26, 2013 Members Share Posted January 26, 2013 If you're deliberately changing the value of a certain cap - say there's a 47u cap somewhere that you change to a 100u cap - that would make a noticeable difference. If you're just switching caps for "mojo" material caps of the same value I'm not convinced it's a worthwhile mod in most cases. The only exception is if you swapped ceramic and electrolytic caps for higher quality metal film caps you could possibly get a reduction in noise from the circuit. I guess in that case you would get a cleaner 'sound' and thus different tone with less noise, but not some magic mojo tone to make TGP jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BrentMpls Posted January 27, 2013 Members Share Posted January 27, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefort_1 Posted January 27, 2013 Members Share Posted January 27, 2013 Brent, take your pick:you can forget those blackcat 50's-era caps I was gonna toss in...it's all +50/-30 ceramics for you.....and I had no idea you had an aquarium...Made in Jamaica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.Grumpy Posted January 30, 2013 Members Share Posted January 30, 2013 It's not going to be worth the epic hassle, in my humble opinion. I say "epic hassle" because the Behringer is built with SMD - surface mount devices. Instead of stripey blobs with wires sticking out of them, imagine little black squared off grains of rice glued to a green playing card. Those little squared off grains of rice are the SMD resistors, capacitors and transistors in the circuit. These pedals can be modded, but it's not a good project for a beginner. 70% chance you'll ruin the pedal, 29% chance it will work and sound the same, 1% chance of epic toanz. I don't like those odds. Just get a tubescreamer kit from BYOC, GGG, or Mammoth, $55 - $70 or so. *edit* another alternative would be the Ibanez TS5 SoundTank version of the tubescreamer - they're available for cheap because of the funky plastic case, but it's the same circuit as the TS9 and it's regular through-hole construction so it can be modded with regular electronic tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members starmansam Posted January 30, 2013 Members Share Posted January 30, 2013 +1 to the concerns about actually upgrading the cap being way more trouble than it is worth. behringer pedals are not easy to mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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