Hudson Broadcast Dual Teardown! UK-made Si/Ge Hybrid Preamp!

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  • Welcome back to the teardown series, where I take apart new and interesting pedals to see what's inside!
    This week we have a 2021 Hudson Broadcast Dual!
    Enjoy the full disassembly and modding of this UK-made preamp.
    If you're interested in owning this exact pedal, check out the Reverb listing here: reverb.com/item/47592544
    If you have suggestions for a pedal you'd like to see on the teardown series, leave a comment below!
    - Joe, GBE

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  • @seanbell8216
    @seanbell8216 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    These videos are wonderful. I love how much detail you go into, learning something new every video. It would be great to hear you explain a little more detail about the unique design choices of each circuit.

  • @meesterdinglefritz2064
    @meesterdinglefritz2064 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just stumbled on your channel and found myself watching all of your videos start to finish. This is the greater idea for a video series I’ve ever come across!! Keep up the great work, I’ll be patiently awaiting the next video.

  • @trintdaddylandis
    @trintdaddylandis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i love your channel. please keep bringing us new videos with interesting circuits. yours is quickly becoming my favorite channel. im in the process of building one of these after having watched your video. 5/5

  • @josephestes7076
    @josephestes7076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ok, I'm new to the channel and I love it here. Great pedal and thanks for the education.

  • @guitarsofvintage4422
    @guitarsofvintage4422 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi Joe - just discovered this channel as was searching for info on the Hudson Broadcast as building a pedal based upon it (Jed's Peds Bird Strike). So really interesting to see new ones with PCB and you look at certain parts, particularly the transistor values in the broadcast. Really useful and very well presented and filmed! Suggestion for a pedal teardown from me would be the Way Huge Aqua Puss (mkII), as I found a PCB for that to build in the future. I'm a subscriber now!

  • @hookydoo
    @hookydoo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those knobs look as though they might be from "Love my Switches". I buy a lot from them and some are better than others. Overall I have had good luck with them. I am loving your channel! Been taking stuff apart since I was very young. Got sta know what’s in there!

  • @LysanderLH
    @LysanderLH 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just thought i'd say thanks for an interesting video.

  • @Whitewallsessions
    @Whitewallsessions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That Khruangbin-esque backing track...

    • @graybenchelec
      @graybenchelec  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's a song from the Epidemic Sound library, Got Caught in Amsterdam by Arc De Soleil. And yes, very Khruangbin :)

  • @heggy_69
    @heggy_69 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was wondering if you could use solder lug pots on pcb mount holes, you may have saved me buying some more pots lol

  • @benevolentessence8809
    @benevolentessence8809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this would be perfect with the OEP transformer and 2 germanium transistors AC128 and NKT 275

  • @ShlomirBareket
    @ShlomirBareket 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    mine is actually on a veroboard!

  • @NoCoverCharge
    @NoCoverCharge 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love my broadcast

  • @erikvincent5846
    @erikvincent5846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What good circuits would you recommend for really low gain germanium transistors (40 or less hfe) or high leak germanium transistors (300uA and greater)? Aside from a unity buffer.

    • @graybenchelec
      @graybenchelec  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The low gain germs could be used in any pedal that incorporates a darlington pair. Check out this article from Steve @ small bear: diy.smallbearelec.com/Projects/OhMyDarlingRM/OhMyDarling.htm
      I believe some of the tone benders requirer higher leakage germs. Good luck!

    • @erikvincent5846
      @erikvincent5846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@graybenchelec I've done the Sziklai pairs before, like on Small Bear's site, but Darlington pairs with 2x germanium transistors, the leak multiplies, so 20uA x 20uA becomes 400uA, which usually isn't usable. That and 20 hfe x 20 hfe equals 400 hfe, which also is a bit hot, unless I want to build a Big Muff. I did find making a low gain, low leak ge as the first half of a Darlington, and then taking a 2n3905 (the 2n3906's lower gain sibling) and flip the pinout 180 degrees, I can get around 100-ish hfe and around 100uA of leak, but so far, that's it.

    • @graybenchelec
      @graybenchelec  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@erikvincent5846 Yeah that's the idea, using silicon for "half" the darlington pair.
      You could also try your low leakage Ge in a percolator. I've read a whole range of hFEs work in that circuit.

  • @boimesa8190
    @boimesa8190 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please please PLEASE do the Fairfield Circuitry Accountant 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @alexisdrosopoulos
    @alexisdrosopoulos 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The pots look like bourns I think, but I may be mistaken.

  • @xjohn1970
    @xjohn1970 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    please tear down a Bogner La Grange

  • @chriskane8103
    @chriskane8103 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wasn't it 0.125mA rather than 125mA on that PNP Germanium?

    • @graybenchelec
      @graybenchelec  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If I was testing leakage at that point, then yes definitely. 125uA of leakage is acceptable, 125mA is absolutely not haha!

  • @joaogoncalves8220
    @joaogoncalves8220 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what does the transformer do tone wise?

  • @franciscovalenzuela152
    @franciscovalenzuela152 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    It looks like is made from inferior parts, am I wrong?

  • @patrickbutcherine142
    @patrickbutcherine142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    With Cole pots that far off from schematic specs... Congratulations you got yourself a Broadcast Variant!! All sorts of stuff happens/ can happen when you switch from strip board/ VERO to PCB WHICH can result in such drastic value difference's.
    I'd want my broadcast on VERO. I'm old school guts. This PCB is too new. If it was done like the very first big muffs and the single side red PCBs with the Rivers of Solder that would be even more awesomeness and a combo of both would be outta this world.
    I'd love this pedal socketed and a couple more bells and whistles. Fuzz factory style

  • @ssm445
    @ssm445 ปีที่แล้ว

    Current PCB is marked 2023, Revision 1.1

  • @searchiemusic
    @searchiemusic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i don't like that they're using the neve styled knobs for pots, he'd be so mad at that, his philosophy was if it was a pot it should be easy to turn and if it's a rotary it should have the wings to give more leverage

  • @TheTubeDude
    @TheTubeDude ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0.075 ma is not 75 ma. But you know that.