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Wednesday, 30 December 2015

Lovetone Big Cheese

Here is the Lovetone Big Cheese with the OLC Chunky Cheese mod to increase the output volume
Original Infos:
The Big Cheese is a loving homage to the nasty, buzzy yet gorgeous and harmonically rich early fuzz. While having many of the classic characteristics that every fuzz fan will relate to it goes beyond to create an absolutely distinct character of its own. Its innovative and interactive controls can take it from almost "gated" break-up to overkill of shred proportions.
Far from being just a guitar pedal however the Big Cheese™ is eminently useful for seeing to any sound with the temerity to be naff or boring (with particularly amusing consequences in the lower regions). To lovers of that extraordinary spectacle known to some as "furrrzze bass!" it offers terminally thunderous, ripping yet glitch-free and buttock-clenching
mayhem that can only be described as Larry Graham on steroids (as demonstrated to devastating effect by the man himself!).





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21 comments:

  1. Travis31 December 2015 at 00:49

    I love the Big Cheese!! The main page did need this one, thanks Alex

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  2. Doron Barness31 December 2015 at 05:35

    Excellent !!!

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  3. Ciaran Haslett31 December 2015 at 21:28

    Another great one Alex! Few issues with the bare board just. The 2 cuts at the top 47n need moved one column left, 2 cuts between Q1 and 2 need moved one column left and the small link next to them needs moved 2 columns to the left.

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  4. brotherleech13 January 2016 at 10:50

    Serves me right for not reading the comments. I'd just put all the resistors but the clr in when I realised something was amiss.

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    1. Alex13 January 2016 at 12:42

      Sorry about that.
      I've missed Ciaran's comment(thank you for noticing the mistake!).
      I've fixed the layout.

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    2. brotherleech13 January 2016 at 15:32

      It's alright. Ciaran pointed it out. I just get too excited and don't read things. I need to learn.

      Keep up the good work

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    3. brotherleech14 January 2016 at 13:46

      It lives! Thank you Alex.

      Started up by wiring the rotary switch wrong but I got it in the end.

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  5. BetterOffShred9 February 2016 at 02:01

    Man, shit on a bread this thing sounds amazing. Damn. I'm blown away.

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  7. BetterOffShred6 March 2016 at 06:11

    Ooooh parts are on the way!

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  8. BetterOffShred11 September 2016 at 05:45

    Yeah so I built this a few months ago and then got a divorce.. but this thing is so awesome. Thanks for the layout fellas. It brings a smile to my face

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  9. jrp3 December 2016 at 02:45

    assuming I connect my LED as described here: http://gaussmarkov.net/wordpress/thoughts/wiring-up-a-1590b/
    should i have a problem in the circuit? I've only dabbled with one other veroboard and that was the reverberation machine by DBA and it did not have de LED set up from the veroboard as this one does. Can I run the LED through the power plug as described in the link? Thanks for you time

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  10. BetterOffShred12 May 2017 at 23:12

    Yeah you don't need to use the LED or CLR on the board at all. Another thing I've noticed is that the Tone B100K is way too much for this pedal. I think I currently have a A10K in mine and it's way more usuable. It just gets super nutty bright, I was running the tone knob nearly all the way down the whole time.

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  12. Unknown30 March 2018 at 18:48

    Hello everybody. I would appreciate a little help if possible. So, let's say that when looking to the back side of the 3p4t switch, if pin A is 12 o'clock, pin B is 8 o'clock and pin C is 4 o'clock, then which one is pin 1 and which one pin 12?

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    1. Alex30 March 2018 at 20:48

      The Sagan Delay layout should help you:
      https://tagboardeffects.blogspot.fr/2015/10/sagan-delay.html

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    2. Unknown31 March 2018 at 09:34

      Thanks a lot Alex! That is a big help!

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  13. Jackson Davis2 August 2018 at 10:36

    Hi,

    First off, thanks for this resource, it's amazing! I've just built the big cheese as my second pedal, after an EP Booster which sounds brilliant and works perfectly.

    I've got the Big Cheese working (following two switch rewires and some track knifing!) but can't shake a high pitch squealing sound that's there the whole while the effect is engaged. The fuzz sounds amazing when the guitar's drowning out the squeal, so I'm know I'm close.

    Any ideas what might be causing this?

    I bought a bag of 2n3904's for this build so could keep swapping them out, but it's not made much difference so far.

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    1. Jackson Davis3 August 2018 at 12:13

      False alarm!

      Swapped out the PSU I was using and it's cleaned right up! Believe it was causing oscillations. The Voodoo Labs Pedal Power 2 I ordered should arrive over the weekend. The fewer unreliable variables the better as I get to grips with this cloning business.

      But anyway... this pedal's amazing! The gated fuzz mode is very very cool.

      Just as a side note - the 3p4t switches I got from China via eBay had no pin labelling, so I followed the pinout on the Sagan Delay layout as recommended by Alex. Unfortunately these switches I have seem to conform to their own convention. Fortunately I was able to work out the pin groupings by looking at the contacts in the open body of the switch. Definitely non-standard, but they seem solidly constructed and clunk nicely between positions. One to look out for!

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  14. SYU20 September 2018 at 11:19

    Someone help me!! can't output sound. Is this big cheese schematic exact?

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  15. Kyle12 October 2019 at 01:25

    Ok, I'm stumped. I get a clean bypass signal but when I hit the switch to engage the effect I just get silence and the LED is always on in both bypass and engaged modes. Checked all my connections and triple checked the wiring. Any thoughts on where to start troubleshooting?

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