Wish Xotic soul driven

Indeed, perfect for that creamy lead tone. Probably possible to get with tweaking one of the tube screamers on fractal. I just don’t have enough knowledge to tweak the diodes etc …
 
I can feel you about the zen , with a tone around 2 and drive very low as well. The bb feels too compressed and focused compared to the soul driven
 
I think is not different from the ac or rc considering the tweakable possibilities in the Advanced section..
 
The rc definitely doesn t have enough gain. The ac is probably tweakable to sound like the souldriven with a mid boost and a smoother distorsion.
 
From https://aionfx.com/news/tracing-journal-xotic-soul-driven-boost-overdrive/:

Analysis​

Nothing super groundbreaking, but interesting nonetheless. Here’s the basic topology:

  1. A Tube Screamer style clipping stage with slightly higher clipping threshold (1N914 + BAT46 in series) and variable high-pass frequency (similar to the Bass control of the Timmy or the Voice control of the Zendrive)
  2. Passive treble cut, similar to the RAT or Zendrive
  3. Volume control
  4. Bass boost stage @ 120 Hz by means of a single-transistor gyrator in the feedback loop of an op-amp. A dual DIP switch selects between four preset resistor values to determine the amount of bass gain, from flat (no boost) up to 6dB.
  5. Transistor-based output buffer
Interestingly, the back half of the circuit (everything after #1 above) is lifted almost verbatim from the BOSS BD-2 Blues Driver. Here’s the Blues Driver factory schematic to compare:

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Only four minor changes were made:

  • Tone pot is changed from 10kB in the BD-2 to 250kB (meaning it can cut more treble than the BD-2)
  • Tone control capacitor (C101 in the BD-2, C5 in my schematic) is changed from 1n to 1n5
  • Bass resistor (R8 in the BD-2) is changed from 6k8 to four available settings: 18k, 28k, 33k, 43k (meaning the lowest setting in the Soul Driven has more bass boost than the BD-2’s fixed value)
  • Output resistor (R1 in the BD-2, R12 in my schematic) is changed from 1k to 470R. No real impact from this change.
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the.oud.dude said:
I get you. But all the charm of the soul driven is in the creamy distorsion.
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It s fun because it is one month i m torn to which pedal choose for clean boosting my Marshall jvm410hjs.. I was thinking between ac or soul driven.. At the end i bought the tc electronic spark but i m not fully satisfied.. Not for the pedal but because you should have two different eq between rhythm and solo.. So i m looking morw for a sort of double eq pedal.. Or clean boost..
 
I originally bought the Soul Driven to mid boost my Friedman Runt 50, but I've since found a handful of different uses that all sound and feel great. One of my favorites has been stacking '82 TS9 > SD > '96 Modded Hot Rod Deluxe
 
Jambi said:
I originally bought the Soul Driven to mid boost my Friedman Runt 50, but I've since found a handful of different uses that all sound and feel great. One of my favorites has been stacking '82 TS9 > SD > '96 Modded Hot Rod Deluxe
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Making that ts even fatter 🔥
 
Fab8040 said:
It s fun because it is one month i m torn to which pedal choose for clean boosting my Marshall jvm410hjs.. I was thinking between ac or soul driven.. At the end i bought the tc electronic spark but i m not fully satisfied.. Not for the pedal but because you should have two different eq between rhythm and solo.. So i m looking morw for a sort of double eq pedal.. Or clean boost..
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I have the Soul Driven and the box of rock in front of the 410H and I really like these 2
 
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