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Sunday, 9 April 2017

Electro Harmonix Knockout Attack Equalizer

"The Knockout is a powerful two-filter combination that can make your Les Paul sound like a Strat and your Strat sound like a Tele. Its secret...the Knockout has a 7 pole filter for sculpting the low end of your mids and a 6 pole filter to shape the top end of the mids. This provides incredible tone shaping. Use after distortion to bring out the heavy weight punch of the metal masters. The Knockout is also truly amazing on Bass."
Original FSB thread and schematic available here.

... and a layout with added Input & Output caps. (Will remove the one above later)

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23 comments:

  1. Gadelha10 April 2017 at 00:53

    Hi!
    What is a CLR resistor and "LED+"?
    I did not find it in the schematic...

    Thanks!

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    1. Voidvessel10 April 2017 at 01:56

      CLR stands for current limiting resistor and is just a resistor making sure that your status LED gets the right amount of current. There's lots of online calculators to get the numbers for whatever color your using, but if you're unsure 2200 ohm usually works well. LED+ is just the positive side of your status LED(usually the longer leg), the negative going to the switch as in the offboard guide that you can find in the tabs on this site.

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    2. Gadelha10 April 2017 at 02:37

      Thank you Voidvessel!
      This one was a bit different from other vero, in that matter.
      Thanks!

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  2. Moda10 April 2017 at 12:15

    Curious about this. May give it a go

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  3. GTECH11 April 2017 at 14:49

    yesterday I saw the layout ehx equalizer by johnk.
    nice layout Alex. I want to try this

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  4. Anonymous11 April 2017 at 17:43

    Could an LT1054 be used in place of the 7660s?

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    1. Alex12 April 2017 at 06:09

      Not on this layout.
      If you give me your email address I'll send you a modified layout for it.

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  5. GTECH11 April 2017 at 20:30

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  6. GTECH12 April 2017 at 14:54

    i use bc558. cool my humbucker sound like single pickup.. and pot bass so powerfull . damn great must try on bass. tq Alex

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  7. Unknown16 April 2017 at 14:51

    Will it work with a MAX1044 as replacement for the 7660S?

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  8. Unknown27 April 2017 at 06:31

    Anyone know what hFE on the BC309: A, B,or C?

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  9. Unknown7 June 2017 at 17:30

    I built this and used bc558s. Works as advertised, really nails a strat sound with humbuckers. My only issue is a nasty switch pop. Tried adding 1M pulldown on input and output, but still get some DC on the output. I also checked continuity between strips and across cuts—all good. Any other ideas of how to get rid of the DC?

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    1. mirosol7 June 2017 at 20:32

      Dear god. Just noticed that the circuit does not have in/out caps at all - the schematic has it without them too. As it is, there will be DC voltage in both, always.

      You definitely want to add something like 1u cap in series with both input and output. And take the pulldows on the outer side of those caps.

      Wonder if Alex would be interested in adding 1u input cap + 1M pulldown and 1u output cap + 220K pulldown to the layout...
      +m

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    2. Unknown7 June 2017 at 20:53

      Cool. Wondered about that. Thanks for the fast reply!

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  10. Unknown10 June 2017 at 20:12

    Do the 1 Uf input and output caps need to be polarised electrolytics - or can they poly box caps?
    If polarised, which way round do they go?

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    1. mirosol11 June 2017 at 09:40

      Either will perform the same. Positive to circuit, negative to input and output.
      +m

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    2. Alex11 June 2017 at 12:31

      Added.

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  11. Unknown11 June 2017 at 14:53

    Thanks for that both of you - luckily I hadn't quite finished building the board.

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  12. Unknown20 June 2018 at 05:41

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  13. Unknown20 June 2018 at 09:53

    Hai I just wanna ask about blue dot in line with dry 1 or Low 1. Is that for hole or for something else??

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    1. Unknown19 March 2019 at 19:00

      I would also like to know the answer to this question.

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  14. Milan24 March 2019 at 07:07

    I built layout with caps and have no signal on 4558 2b. Checked for solder bridges, components, ic... Is this layout verified?

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