PROCYON NATURAL OVERDRIVE
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Project Overview
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Enclosure Layout
2
Introduction & Usage
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Wiring Diagram
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Parts List
9
Licensing
5
Schematic
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Document Revisions
6
Drill Template
INTRODUCTION
The Procyon Natural Overdrive is a clone of the BJFe Honey Bee Overdrive, a circuit first released in
2002 that is credited for starting the “low gain overdrive” trend.
The circuit itself is a rather unique overdrive design, incorporating both soft and hard clipping and
utilizing frequency-dependent negative feedback from different points in the circuit, for a result that is
often called “amplike” in tone.
These pedals were handmade in Sweden and were extremely expensive ($300-400 USD), and so in 2011
an agreement was made with BearFoot FX to produce them in the USA for a more reasonable cost.
Bearfoot has also released a number of variants of this basic circuit such as the Model H, Model G,
Honey Beest, Uber Bee, and Sparkling Yellow Overdrive. While each of these circuits are similar, the
Procyon project only supports the standard Honey Bee (both BJFe and BearFoot versions, which have
minor differences).
USAGE
The Procyon has the same control layout as most overdrive or distortion effects:
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Drive
controls the gain of the op-amp stage which increases the amount of signal clipping.
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Nature
is a very unique tone control, doing two things at once. On one half of the rotation it
affects the amount of bass and changes the gain structure of the circuit. On the other half of the
rotation, it blends in a frequency bypass capacitor on the gain-recovery FET, causing the highs to
be emphasized more. The end result is that you have more bass on one side and more treble on the
other, but the manner of accomplishing this is very different than something like the Big Muff.
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Volume
controls the overall output level of the effect.
