I've had quite a few email's requesting information on this old Lovepedal design that's supposed to emulate that classic "Fender on 6" tone. Well, I've got a schematic for you. First here's the description from the Lovepedal website:
"Reminiscent of the mid 60's Blackface Fender era. Specifically a Blackface Super on 6.
Plug the Super 6 in to a ANY clean amp to nail that mid-60's American amp tone. This unit will turn a small amp into a much larger sounding amp instantly.
With an onboard vintage tone stack to die for, you now have ULTIMATE control over ANY guitar / amp / effects combination.."
And a demo video:
The schematic was originally drawn up by reveriesof on the freestompboxes forum, I've redrawn it for you for ease of understanding:
[NOTE - the input cap should be 10nF not 100nF, this is also true for the 100n cap that bypasses the tone control - it should also be 10n]
As you can see it's a deviation from the standard Lovepedal formula of "modified Electra/LPB booster". That BS170 is a mosfet device and they have nice clipping characteristics of their own without requiring any clipping diodes. The "vintage tonestack" is just low pass/mid boost cut type control.
Here's a great little PCB layout(Showing full of board wiring as well) produced by Sinner on the Freestompboxes forum - Cheers Sinner!
Here's the original freestompboxes forum thread for your viewing:
This schematic is correct here?
ReplyDeleteC4 and C5 100nf
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C4 and C5 10nf
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10nF, project updated!
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