Last winter I put together a King of Tone clone using 1n914 and 1n4001 diodes. Last month I bought a few sets of MA856 and 1S1588 diodes which are the REAL diodes that Analogman uses in their pedals. I thought I'd do a quick comparison of the two sounds.
Sorry in advance for not properly tuning my guitar. I'm playing a fender jazzmaster through a fender blues deluxe with a sennheiser e835 running straight into garageband, no eq or anything else. Let me know what you think!
The red side is the MA856 and 1S1588, while the blue side is 1n914 and 1n4001. They are both standard gain pots, not the high gain option. The presence controls inside are set the same, and I tried to keep the controls the same throughout.
