Klon clean boost

[Svebster]

Hi,

I want to build a Klon clean boost. I'm looking at the Klon schematic at the moment and I'm wondering if I could leave out the Op-Amp gain stage completely if I wanted to essentially always keep the gain control on 0 ?

Are there any components that are entirely inactive when the gain control is all the way down?

Or would I have to replace the gain pot with wires and resistors to keep the same sound as with the gain pot installed and all the way down?


Thanks

[pinkjimiphoton]

as i recall, the gain all the way down on the klon is signal off. so no.

your best bet would really be a clean booster, less expense, probably better sound.

but the easiest thing to do would be leave the clipping diodes out. then it will just be more of a boost and less of a distortion.

but at that point, you could get pretty much the same sound with a freekin lpb1

the klon is weird, its not a standard in series, linear kinda circuit.
its more like a buffered signal that spliit into a treble boost, and a mid boost, controlled by the same <dual> pot with some filtering and hard clipping added before another buffer. its been years since i looked at one,

i would advise trying it on a breadboard before committing to it. sans the clipper, its not gonna sound much like a klon, and there's lots of other ways to do the same thing cheaper and easier that may even sound better.

hopefully i am wrong on all this, but... to me? i don't think you'll like it very much, it won't have any personality without the gain pot and diodes.

if ya leave the gain stage out, ya got two buffers and an active tone stack. it won't HAVE any gain or boost without it.

that said, you could leave out everything in green below, and change r23 to a variable resistor for a level control i suppose, but i doubt it would sound all that great. too many buffers in a row tends to sound tinkly and kinda harsh to my ears.

shit, you could leave off the input stage in red even, just keep the 1m pulldown and c1.

i dunno if it will sound too great tho

looking at it, just seems like a lot of circuitry to add just to neuter the gain control. without the gain, the stage won't have any appreciable output, i'd think.

again, probably wrong, so....