The Xotic AC Booster a well loved booster/overdrive pedal, this demo shows why -
And here's a scheme for you:
You can clearly see it is a traditional style opamp based clipper. With one interesting addtion, it has an active tone stack present after the clipping section! Here's some more info, available on the Xotic site: http://www.xotic.us/effects/ac_booster/
Kusi of the freestompboxes.org forum contributed these mods to change the xotic AC booster into the xotic RC Booster:
C1 = 47nF
C2 = 1uF / NP
R8 = remove and bridge
C4 = remove
R5 = 22k
R7 = 250k
Clipping-Diodes = 3x 1N4148 each side
Thank you for the information. About the RC booster mod, what do you call 3 on each side?
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Me again,
ReplyDeleteI am not able to find the 4557. It is probably obvious for you which opamp should be used, but I am a complete starter in this field. Could you then please give the complete name of the opamp and/or a potential replacement for it?
Regards
"3 4148 diodes" would be 3 diodes in the feedback loop of the opamp positively biased and 3 diodes negatively biased, parallel to one another. Basically something like this:
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|-/\/\/\--|
|-->->->--| Diodes
|--<-<-<--|
The opamp you should be able to find at all the major retailers such as mouser e.t.c I would recommend trying other dual opamps too - the LF353 is a good 'un for example, or the clasic JRC4558, the choice is yours.
Hi, any news for the PCB?
ReplyDeleteHave someone tried to figure out a layout?
Thanks a lot!
so waiting for a pcb or layout for this baby...
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Any body test these schem??. What are the results, sound great?.
ReplyDeleteGhosteaser I think that the JRC4558, 4559 are equivalent of 4557.
Bye!
i found your site when i search scheme use IC LF353 (gift from my bro). well i don't promise too build that :-). good site...Deux.
ReplyDeleteHas anybody ever seen a 4557? I haven´t... ;-)))
ReplyDeleteThe new spec RC which is the same as the Scott Henderson has a 1uf cap as C1. Thats the only difference according to Xotic. Im assuming they use a metal film cap.
ReplyDeleteR8 on the schematic should be 1K resistor not a 10K as shown.
ReplyDeleteFind NEC 4557 op amp at
http://www.dalbani.co.uk
Regards
this is version 1,version 2 has 4 diodes,gain 1meg lin,vol 100k lin,r8 1k,led is powered via a mosfet circuit.
ReplyDeletealso r18 is carbon comp
ReplyDeleteGreat info Alex, Cheers for that...
ReplyDeleteany idea about the AC-Comp Booster? does it have additional circuitry to achieve the compression or just a siwtch that selects differently valued components for something already in the circuit above to achieve a more compressed sound?
ReplyDeleteAnyone done a vero layout for this yet?
ReplyDelete@alexandroid @Briggs I just built this using a PCB from Madbean for the Quasar. I've used a 1uf for C1 and .1uf for C2, 4 diodes, B1M gain, B100K vol.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'm wondering about is that it seems that the values specified on jan 31-2012 are mixed for the RC and AC Booster?
Does the RC Booster still use the 250K volume pot? I like what I have now but I need to leave the Gain low for more clean boosting.
So question is: what resistor, cap and pot values are for RC and for AC?
Thanks,
Harry
hello
Deletethe values i was referring to were obviously for the AC booster,having a 1M gain pot means a lot of gain,an RC has a 250k for gain and 100kB for volume.
anyway,an Ac with the gain at zero is slightly fatter than the RC but similar
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ReplyDeleteAny idea how this differs from the Bass RC booster? I'm guessing maybe just a larger input cap since the tone control is already an active eq.
ReplyDeleteAny idea how this differs from the Bass RC booster? I'm guessing maybe just a larger input cap since the tone control is already an active eq.
ReplyDeleteAny idea how this differs from the Bass RC booster? I'm guessing maybe just a larger input cap since the tone control is already an active eq.
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