Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Haven’t done a layout with board mounted pots in a while, so here’s the Lovepedal Black Magic. It’s a LM386 based distortion that tries to get achieve the “Brown Sound.” I added polarity protection and put the LED resistor on the board as well.
This is one of the many variations of the old Electra Distortion. Sounds like a cranked Tweed 5E3 amp. The original Lovepedal Woodrow has just a volume knob, but it’s easy (and useful) to add a gain control. If you just want one knob, connect Gain 3 to Gain 2.
The 159th Lovepedal Electra. Info about the original: The Lovepedal Les Lius features a three way toggle switch that allows you to change tones from 5E3 Woody (Tweed Fender Deluxe), High Power Twin (50′s Fender Twin) and Master Volume Tchula (combination of both the 5E3 Woody and the High Power Twin). The amount of VOLUME … Read more
I had to get in quick with this one, or Miro would have done it for sure! :o) Cranked tweed 5E3 tone allegedly. It’s amazing how much mileage you can get out of an Electra Distortion and still have customers coming back for another Electra Distortion. Sean is indeed a genius. Alternative version with added … Read more
Request. This was traced from some pics and a PCB layout. It’s a negative ground YAFF with PNP silicon transistors for some reason. From the Lovepedal spiel: Your quest for the ultimate Fuzz ends here. Lots of players use it like an OD pedal or full on fuzz, even distortion.. Roll back the guitar’s volume … Read more
After a thread on Freestompboxes, I thought it would be interesting to try out a few layouts using inline opamps and see how they compare in board size. Tayda sell the NJM4558 which would be perfect for a lot of these effects and so I thought it would be good to see how the layout … Read more
And the other version with symmetrical clipping and slight component value variation. So this is the bufferless Tubescreamer:
Lovepedal’s bufferless Tubescreamer with asymmetrical clipping. Actually I think that makes it a bufferless Boss SD1
Update: aegert on FSB has experimented with the circuit and has found that putting a low value cap like 820pf between pins 1 and 2 of the opamp really improved the pedal. He also suggests that a 500K log pot is much better for the Gain control, so give that a go. Update 2: daz … Read more
