DIY Boostpedal built in a DIY Guitar amp ?

[Perkla]

Hi

I have built a 5 watt tube amp, now I am thinking about building a boost pedal and build the circuit in the Amp chassis with a 3PDT switch on the frontpanel of the amp, also I will use a AC inverter so I can get 9 volt DC.

My question is, would it be possible to put the pedal PCB between the amp PCB and the input jack of the amp ? that meaning I just route the cable from the input jack of the amp to input of the boost PCB circuit and then put the output of the boost PCB circuit to the PCB of the amp.. where the amp input jack would originally be connected..

// Daniel

[amz-fx]

Yes, you can do that.

However, I might add a dpdt switch to bypass the booster circuit. You never know when you might like to have it out of the signal path.

http://www.muzique.com/schem/dpdt.gif

regards, Jack

[Perkla]

Thank you very much for quick answer Yeah I was planning of having a dpdt switch on the front of the amp to be able to activate the Boost when ever I want, also there will be an extra knob on the amp front panel so how much boost will be used.. normally not very much though, this idea will be used for tighten up the distortion a little bit. Now I just need to figure out what Boost circuit to build.. simple and with only one knob. Do you have any suggestions ?

[iainpunk]

several options out there, the SHO is really good, the Range Master, the LPB-1.

cheers

[GibsonGM]

You could have more than 1    mosfet boost, perhaps...