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Exotic Soul

Based on the Xotic Soul Driven· 2 other boards clone it

Category
Overdrive· Soul giving overdrive
Controls
Gain · Level · Mids · Treble
Difficulty
Intermediate
Price
€8.90out of stock

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From the vendor

Project overview

Inspired by one of the best Xotic Effects design, the Soul Driven delivers creamy boost and overdriven tones that enhance harmonics while maintaining your guitar tone´s transparency,

Introduction

This pedal brings excellent value by replicating a perfectly tuned amp’s tone and response, offering robust control over your mid frequencies, fattening up your tone while simultaneously punching through the mix. The tone control adds clarity without ever becoming harsh at higher settings (nothing says “good circuit design” like than that kind of feature).

If you’re the type of guitarist that spends a reasonable amount of time searching for that tonal sweet spot, that precise mix of boost, compression, and overdrive, this is the right build for you.

But what’s the secret that allows this pedal to achieve that sweet equilibrium point? Well, the Exotic Soul has enough push (not the traditional amount that a booster usually has) to send a tube amp into overdrive. Gain control might don’t go as far as to give you heavy distortion or a crazy amount of fuzz. Still, it has more than enough to delight with a wide variety of rich, saturated overdrive tones perfect for modern rock, classic rock, blues, and more. And finally, the compression has the ideal amount to deliver rich sustain and smooth harmonics without ever sounding flat or lifeless.

It’s not easy to reach that level of perfect balance, and the result is that Exotic sound that brings Soul to your playing.

Controls

• Gain

• Level

• Mids

• Treble

For further analysis on this circuit take a look at this thread on Free Stomp Boxes Forum.

For any technical questions regarding this build don’t forget to check out our Facebook Group and our forum at Free Stomp Boxes.

Exotic Soul – Building Docs

Exotic Soul – Drilling template

Schematic

The schematic is in the vendor's build document, page 5. Open the build document. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.

Parts list 46 rows

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Resistors 18
R11M1M
R210K10k
R31M1M
R418K18k
R51K81.8k
R6470K470k
R710K10k
R8470K470k
R91K21.2k
R1018K18k
R1115K15k
R1215K15k
R13100K100k
R1410K10k
R15100K100k
R1722K22k
R1822K22k
R19470R470
Capacitors 14
C1110u10u
C1210u10u
C1410u10u
C1470n470n
C2150p150p
C3100n100n
C51n51.5n
C6100n100n
C72n22.2n
C856n56n
C956n56n
C13100n100n
C44u74.7u
C1010u10u
Diodes 7
D11n9141N914
D2BAT46BAT46
D3BAT46BAT46
D41n9141N914
D51n9141N914
D61n9141N914
D81N58171N5817
Transistors 2
Q1BC549CBC549C
Q2BC549CBC549C
ICs 1
IC1LM833LM833
Potentiometers 4
GAIN1MBB1MPotentiometer
LEVEL100KBB100kPotentiometer
MIDS10KCC10kPotentiometer
TREBLE250KBB250kPotentiometer

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