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My tone bender has too much compression. How can I fix this? I have an older one. Heres a pic...


I changed the cap between the transistors to from .01uf to a .022uf to add some bass.

I'll wait for a better mind than mine, to confirm, but wouldn't reducing the input cap value help correct this?

Ya Leader, check out the new instructions it gives a swap of components to decrease compression.

Change the .1uf cap to .047uf

My PCB is different then the new pdf. I hace 3 caps that are .1uf.

I'm not terribly technical but if you follow the traces of the caps the one you would change is attached to Q1. I hope that helps and I'm not just frustrating you.

Actually now that I'm home, there are 2 - .01 caps an one .1uf cap and I already changed the .1 to .022uf to add more bass and it still has too much compression. I got alot of pedals on my board but they are all true bypass. All BYOC except for a modded GCB-95.

A smaller cap would cut bass. So if you added a .022uf(223), that would give you less bass and less compression. Are you sure you didn't add a .22uf(224) cap...that one in your pic looks too big to be a .022uf. The stock tonebender is about as bassy as it gets. Adding a .22uf would not give you anymore bass response...it would just make it more flubbery and compressed. If you like marshall tone, try replacing that cap with a .033uf, the 100k resistor right in the middle with a 47k, the 470ohm with a 1K, and swapping out the Q1 with a PNP silicon transistor like the 2N5087. It will be noisier, but it will rip your face off.

I built it a while ago. It must of been to bassy then. lol
It is a 223 cap in there but there is still too much compression.