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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 7, 2016 at 1:42am

From what I've been reading about in different places, it takes a very sensitive diode to make this happen or the ability to vary the voltage going into a non sensitive diode until you hit the sweet spot.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 7, 2016 at 2:46am

Another iffy diagram

Here's how I'm going to try it out

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 7, 2016 at 1:10pm

I saw them on fleebay. I posted it. I got the wrong ones then I found other ones that sayed they would work as 'fuzz mods'.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 7, 2016 at 2:18pm

Can't find that item

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 7, 2016 at 2:08pm

Your probably right.

I thin it's gonna be good if we can find it how this might work and get it out as a good mod in CBGs for piezos.

It just might add a bit of metal to the folk ideology

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 11, 2016 at 2:33am

The real Black Ice that I bought and installed in my guitar years ago worked very good. the pickups were bridge - HB 11k, middle - single 5.8k and neck - single 5.2k. Now it resides in a tin as a effect pedal and I've played every thing I have through it without issue. However, I think it works better in the guitar without a tone cap in play because the pedal performed better on gits without a tone circuit than it did on gits with a tone circuit.

I guess not all DIY hacks are created equal.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 15, 2016 at 12:33am

Is that you done? Or is that v1?

I think I will mess about with this for a while..

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 15, 2016 at 6:27am

We await the results of v2

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Permalink Reply by Gilles C. Caron on August 10, 2016 at 12:06pm

You need hot pick-ups for this to work.
8.4K ohms is not power or even voltage, it depends on the number of turns of wire the pickup has. More winding means more resistance (ohms).
but it also means more output voltage.
Like overwound pickups which are hotter. eg Texas Special pickups
I tried it quite some time ago and it wasn't worth it.
But I don't remember what I used to try it...

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Permalink Reply by JL on August 15, 2016 at 1:09am

Not to be a pendantic descriptionist but...

technically black ice is not overdrive, its a clip effect, but with the same results, the nice pretty rounded tips of the sine wave are clipped flat giving the pre-amp overdriving the amp sound.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 15, 2016 at 8:38am

The Black Ice is supposed to replace the tone cap, so wiring this without the volume and tone pots may not work as well as it would with those pots. You may want to have a volume at least.

You may want to try it both ways before making final judgement. There was a difference between the on board guitar version without a tone cap and the pedal version with the in place tone cap. The pedal version sounds better on guitars without a tone cap than with.

I made a scan of the wiring for the Black Ice if that helps. You can wire a pot as a drive/level as well.

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Permalink Reply by Fomhorach on August 15, 2016 at 9:27am

Ooh.. Thanks for those.

I figure that electronically it's possible. It is just a matter of testing and figuring out which input is best for which set and values of the components in the device.

This one is trial and error I believe. Find components that work together.

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