Showing posts with label Lovepedal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lovepedal. Show all posts

Monday, 5 February 2018

Lovepedal Jubilee

Schematic available here.

20/02 Layout updated! Changed the 47nF cap to 4n7 as suggested by Music6000


Saturday, 1 July 2017

Hermida Audio / Lovepedal Dover Drive


Recently traced at FSB. (Now this should be ok... edited 4.7.2017)

Saturday, 25 March 2017

Lovepedal Champ

This should emulate a Fender Champ sound.
You can find original FSB thread and schematic here.


Saturday, 11 March 2017

Lovepedal Hi Vol

"The Hi Volt is a mid- to high-gain dirt box, with a fully saturated effect that is internally charge-pumped to 16VDC, and brandishes a high headroom, custom-tuned 3-band active EQ. This high-voltage configuration allows for very flexible and potent sonic possibilities, ranging from blues to metal and everything in between.
With its generous low-end wallop, the Hi Volt creates amazing depth and three-dimensional mass with an amp or rig of any size. Now your compact combo amp can sound like a towering full stack, simply by engaging the Hi Volt’s unique circuitry.
As you increase the Hi Volt’s “Bass” control, you can add warmth and body to your tone without the signal getting loose or tubby. The Hi Volt is a very tight effect and responds to rapidly changing playing dynamics, just like your favorite tube amp would.
With the gain knob set at around 9 o’clock, you get a tight, British clang that nails your favorite 70’s classic rock riffs. Set the gain at 1 o’clock for more saturation from signing lead tones to 90’s grunge riffage. Setting the gain around 3 o’clock will deliver some of the most brutal tones to ever come out of a stomp box."
Original FSB thread and schematic available here.
14/04/17Layout updated! Connected D1 to pin 8 instead of 7 and changed 820K resistor to 882K!





Friday, 26 April 2013

Lovepedal Les Lius

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 is controlled by the first knob. The second knob is a second gain stage which emulates what happens when you crank one of these vintage low wattage amplifiers.






Thursday, 10 January 2013

Lovepedal Woodrow

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 Gain control:




And a requested tagboard version:




And here's Geiri's demo of his build:



Sunday, 3 June 2012

Lovepedal Silicon Fuzzmaster

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 and you're left with a lively shimmer atop your guitar and amp's identity. Amazingly, this happens to an appropriate degree throughout the pedal's range, and without the annoyingly excessive boost in volume that many overdrive pedals generate. And, yes, it's dead quiet.

The Fuzzmaster is a VERY sweet, smooth, silicon transistor based, fuzz that is warm, organic and sings with sustain. While it has an UN-mistakable vintage tendency, it also has a unique voice. Vintage Fuzz Face tonal heaven and everything in between, even tweed amp tones are in there.




The traced schematic:




The last layout (Rev 2) seems to be fine so if you're building it don't worry, but it occurred to me that if I move a couple of the resistors around then I can save an extra column and so the following revised layout does that.  In fact if you get rid of the completely unnecessary 100n filter cap at the bottom right hand side you could save another column as well.  I'll leave that up to you though.




And a final compact version without the unnecessary 100n filter cap.  Just build whichever one you like! :o)




Update: Schematic and layout now done from the corrected PCB layout.  As an option try 33pf-47pf caps between collector and base on both transistors to help smooth things out. 

Monday, 6 February 2012

Lovepedal Eternity Burst - SIP8 inline opamp

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 looked for an Eternity Burst as I have a recent DIP8 layout to compare to.  As you can see in this I managed to save 3 columns on the vero compared to the DIP8 layout I posted today, but an extra row was needed.  I'm sure a lot more space could be saved by people who don't have the aversion to standing resistors that I do, so this would be a good option for some people, especially for high parts count circuits.



Lovepedal Eternity Burst

And the other version with symmetrical clipping and slight component value variation.  So this is the bufferless Tubescreamer:





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Lovepedal Eternity

Lovepedal's bufferless Tubescreamer with asymmetrical clipping.  Actually I think that makes it a bufferless Boss SD1




Sunday, 5 February 2012

Lovepedal Kalamazoo

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 at FSB has corrected some values from an original pedal he examined.  New vero layout below, and it may still be worth adding that 820p cap between opamp pins 1 and 2 to see if there is still an improvement.  You can also try something lower like 47 to 470p if the 820p cuts too much high end, or socket and swap to taste maybe.



Monday, 16 January 2012

Lovepedal Super 6

The Lovepedal library continues! :o)



More compact version without the unnecessary 100nF filter cap


Friday, 1 April 2011

Lovepedal Superlead

OK last Lovepedal for a while, I'm fed up of them now! :o)


Lovepedal Amp Eleven

Hmmm this looks similar to something else too ....

 


Sean told everyone that this wasn't a clone of his "good friends" best selling pedal and was in fact a Kalamazoo.  I'll leave you to look at the following comparison and make up your own minds.  

Amp 11 / Timmy comparison:




Amp 11 / Kalamazoo comparison:


Friday, 25 February 2011

Lovepedal Purple Plexi 800

A lot of people have said this is a great "Marshall in a box" and it's a pretty simple circuit so worth a try.  I did a big axial mojo layout for this a while ago, but have re-done it here using more commonly used (and space friendly) components.

It's funny but it occurred to me when doing this how similar it is to the Krank Distortus Maximus that I did a layout for a few weeks ago.  It's so unlike Lovepedal to use someone elses designs ........ ermwait ..

Update: Here's a slightly smaller version which allows you to use standard 9 row vero and so will be preferable for most people.  This is verified.