pantsonfire
Active member
Howdy-
I have emailed Scott Hampton about this question, but I haven't heard back from him. I get the impression he's a very busy fellow, so I thought I'd bring it to the Lab.
Here is a link to the schematic: http://www.hamptone.com/figure1.htm
Senor Hampton mentions in the mods/improvements section of his Tapeop article http://www.hamptone.com/tape_op_art.htm about this preamp that increasing the values for R's 2 and 5 will cause the amp to saturate more quickly. He goes on to recommend that any changes to these resistors should be "slight." R2 is 2.1k and R5 is 3.01k in the original design.
Would increasing the values of these R's to 3.01k and 4.12k respectively be a slight increase? Too much? Not enough to matter? I would just go with trial and error (mostly error probably) but as these components connect Pin3 to ground and Pin8 to ground my layout has them in kind of an inconvenient place for swapping them out.
Any help is much appreciated.
I have emailed Scott Hampton about this question, but I haven't heard back from him. I get the impression he's a very busy fellow, so I thought I'd bring it to the Lab.
Here is a link to the schematic: http://www.hamptone.com/figure1.htm
Senor Hampton mentions in the mods/improvements section of his Tapeop article http://www.hamptone.com/tape_op_art.htm about this preamp that increasing the values for R's 2 and 5 will cause the amp to saturate more quickly. He goes on to recommend that any changes to these resistors should be "slight." R2 is 2.1k and R5 is 3.01k in the original design.
Would increasing the values of these R's to 3.01k and 4.12k respectively be a slight increase? Too much? Not enough to matter? I would just go with trial and error (mostly error probably) but as these components connect Pin3 to ground and Pin8 to ground my layout has them in kind of an inconvenient place for swapping them out.
Any help is much appreciated.