Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Superlead is Lovepedal’s take on the Marshall Guv’nor. It has a simplified tone stack compared to the Guv’nor, but has a switch to select between silicon diodes and LED for clipping. Great for 80’s metal tones. On an unrelated note, I made a Facebook page for the blog. I figure you guys can post … Read more
For #fuzzfriday, here’s an interesting take on the Fuzz Face circuit. It uses silicon PNP transistors, but is still a negative ground effect (so daisy chaining power supply is still ok). I guess Sean had a bunch of extra 2N3906s lying around. I took a few liberties with the power filtering and polarity protection, but … Read more
Here’s the Lovepedal Englishman. It’s claimed to sound like a cranked Vox (either AC15 or AC30 depending on which clipping diodes are selected). Like many of Lovepedal’s offerings, this circuit is built around a single transistor. Unlike many of Lovepedal’s offerings, it’s not based off the Electra Distortion. Instead, it draws from the EHX LPB-1 … Read more
Got a request for this one. The Zendrive is a low-to-medium gain overdrive, delivering blues to jazz tones. It has an interesting clipping section, using a combination of diodes and MOSFETs in an asymmetrical arrangement. I’ve drawn the layout to accommodate board mounted pots (from the solder-side) and it will fit easily in a 1590b.
Here’s one of Lovepedal’s many Electra Distortion variants. It’s a pretty good booster and is the boost section on the Amp Eleven.
The overdrive section of the Amp Eleven as many of you might know, is pretty much a direct copy of Paul Cochrane’s Timmy. The only difference (aside from a few value changes) is the Amp Eleven doesn’t have the switch that adds another clipping section that’s in the Timmy.
The Karl is essentially a modified Tim Escobedo Tripple Fuzz, basing it’s sound around an NPN/PNP transistor network known as a “non-selective frequency tripler.” I modified the power section a little bit. The original has an unnecessary 47µ cap at 9v input before the 330Ω resistor which I eliminated. I also moved the anti-popping pull … Read more
Here’s another Lovepedal circuit. It’s similar to the Black Magic, adding a frequency control, and is supposed to sound like a Marshall amp.
One of Sean’s many Electra Distortion variants, the Les Lius delivers both Tweed Deluxe and Fender Twin tones. The 3-way toggle switches between different clipping options and the 2nd footswitch acts like a separate gain channel. I couldn’t find much info on what JFET is used for Q2, but I would imagine any DSG pinout … Read more
The Eternity Overdrive is kind of like the Big Muff of Lovepedal in that it has a ton of different versions (there are over 10 I believe), but it’s basically a Tube Screamer without the input/output buffers. I’ve drawn up 2 versions here, the Black and the Burst. The main difference between the 2 is … Read more