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Comment by Southern Ray on May 15, 2021 at 10:39am

 Thank you for that description Brian! I figured that and was hoping someone like you in the Nation could explain it. I understand just enough to get myself into trouble. 

Comment by BrianQ. on May 15, 2021 at 9:22am

The tone distiller is none but an active “high pass/ low pass/mid bump“ filter. the reason it’s an active circuit, is because volume is usually lost when running signal through these kinds of filters passively, the opamp provides a buffer that boosts the volume loss as well as correcting the output impedance, which is why there is some added gain? These kinds of effects are normally referred to as “buff & boost” circuits, one of the most famous is the “Centaur Klon” which has a buffer/boost/tone filter all in one? 

Comment by Southern Ray on May 14, 2021 at 5:05pm

 As I understand it, it acts like a tone control from a vintage guitar. All I know is when I turn it clockwise, it gets louder and nastier and it boosts my low-z pickups into a pleasant distortion. Even gets a little nasty. I like it.

Comment by AGP # on May 14, 2021 at 11:38am

Interesting Southern Ray, Tone Distiller, I've never heard of that one, what's it supposed to do! ??? :-)

Comment by Southern Ray on May 14, 2021 at 7:08am

Thanks for your interest and "like", Ambrose. Really appreciate it. I have a post on it in my "One-string" photo album. Gonna add another post there today. Thinking about putting up a sound-file with it in a day or so. Just gotta do a little more practicing on it. I suck at diddley bow more than I do with three-string. Oddly enough, I find the diddley harder to play and make it sound interesting. I got a "Psycho Knob" and a "Tone-distiller" from Gitty. Strangely enough, the latter altered the tone more than the other. I didn't expect that.
Thanks again!

Comment by Southern Ray on May 14, 2021 at 6:59am

 Thank you Uncle John. I noticed a small amount of difference, but it seems to sound best where it is now, It stays there for the most part. 

Comment by Bob "Ambrose" Negus on May 14, 2021 at 4:05am

You've caught my interest...

Comment by Uncle John on May 14, 2021 at 3:23am

Cool.  I have done that thing with multiple pickup points mounted a long a diddley.  It looked cool, but did not change the sound as much as I had expected.