Tried it? Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive

[The Boathouse]

Just wondering if anyone on here has had any experience, limited or extensive, with the Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive pedal. It seems like a pretty wise piece of equipment, one that, if it does its job well, I would be more than happy to drop a few bones for. I'm wary of diving into something a bit unorthodox (i.e. mixing the clean boost and the drive) without hearing if anybody's had good or bad luck with it. If nobody has, I might take the plunge and post a review.

Unrelated, who's pumped on that Egnater Rebel 20 watt head? The one with the powerscaling knob and the 6l6-el84-scaling knob? That thing is going to sell faster than a prostitute in New York in the 80's.

[patrickhowell]

Just wondering if anyone on here has had any experience, limited or extensive, with the Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive pedal. It seems like a pretty wise piece of equipment, one that, if it does its job well, I would be more than happy to drop a few bones for. I'm wary of diving into something a bit unorthodox (i.e. mixing the clean boost and the drive) without hearing if anybody's had good or bad luck with it. If nobody has, I might take the plunge and post a review.

Unrelated, who's pumped on that Egnater Rebel 20 watt head? The one with the powerscaling knob and the 6l6-el84-scaling knob? That thing is going to sell faster than a prostitute in New York in the 80's.

I haven't had any personal experience with either, but both of them sound great on YouTube. This weekend, I'm adding power scaling to my Valve Junior and I've been thinking about eventually add a 6V6 power tube in parallel with the EL84 so I can have that "tube mix" too... I'll just need to buy a bigger Power Transformer to do that.

Also, unrelated... I added a Conjunctive Filter to my VJ last weekend, and it makes an enormous difference in the overdrive. You should seriously consider that for your Blackheart. It really makes a single ended amp much more useful and much less harsh. All you need to do is add a 4.7k resistor and a .0047uF capacitor across the primary side of the OT. Here's the blackheart layout with the solder points marked (it's kind of hard to see the arrows... they're above the power tube socket):

http://i38.tinypic.com/2rdu70i.jpg

Those parts should be really easy to find at Radio Shack or any other electrical parts supplier. And the values don't have to be exactly that, just something in the ballpark. The schematic I saw said 5.6k and .047uF but those are the values I used and they worked great for me.

[The Boathouse]

Shit, awesome dude! Thanks! Haha, you've been hooking me up like crazy with mod ideas. I just gotta scrape together a couple bones and spare hours and do 'em now.

[patrickhowell]

Shit, awesome dude! Thanks! Haha, you've been hooking me up like crazy with mod ideas. I just gotta scrape together a couple bones and spare hours and do 'em now.

Yeah, and the CF only costs a couple bucks really... One resistor and one capacitor. And it's so close in the BH that you might not even need any extra wire. I put mine on a switch so I can turn it off an on but if you don't like the sound of the overdrive how it is, you might just want to leave it always on.

[eriklipson]

I used the Sparkle Drive with my Silverface Twin Reverb and it matched up nicely!