bass guitar booster + tone stack

craigmillard · July 24, 2009, 09:02:07 AM

Hello All

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I am looking at creating a bass guitar boost pedal with a tone stack maybe the mini-booster + amz presence tone stack 2?

What do you all think, or any suggestions on something more suited to the bass guitar? i cant find much regarding bass guitar effect building or converting??

Cheers

Derringer · July 24, 2009, 09:04:10 AM

I had good results just using a simple JFET gain stage

play with the bypass capacitor ... I liked caps between 1 and 10 uf to accentuate frequencies

Ben N · July 24, 2009, 09:48:59 AM

FA-1? Leave out the bass-cut switch and maybe tweak some values to shift the center of the Baxandahl down an octave or so. This should be cleaner than a minibooster--if that's what you want. If you are careful about the ratings of your components you could probably also run it at higher voltage to get more headroom.

boogietube · July 24, 2009, 01:36:19 PM

Try the flipster. It says it's a distortion box, but not really. There are a lot of useful clean tones and overdriven tones there, and it has a tone stack. Keep in mind that not one clip I have heard does justice to it.

boogietube · July 24, 2009, 01:38:40 PM

Oh ya. The Flipster is from www.runoffgrove.com

Derringer · July 24, 2009, 02:05:12 PM

gro'o've

the extra 'o' is for "OOOhhh that sounds good !!!"

rbstep · July 26, 2009, 02:00:43 PM

The link for the Flipster should be: www.runoffgroove.com

doitle · July 26, 2009, 02:55:57 PM

It doesn't have a tone control but one could certainly be added:

LPB-1

I just built one a few days ago and changed the input and output caps to 4.7uF Electrolytics. I think it sounds pretty awesome with a bass.

Minion · July 26, 2009, 03:08:45 PM

I just finnished designing and building an active preamp with Bass/Treble controll and a gain controll for my Bass guitar, it actually fits inside my Bass guitar .... It turned out pretty good , a bit too much gain in the second stage but it is good for going from a clean sound to an overdriven sound ....

it is basicly a 2 opamp stages with a passive tone stack in between and adjustable gain on the second stage ... I can share the PCB design if you want , it is only 2.5in x 1.5in ....

Cheers

craigmillard · July 29, 2009, 09:05:03 AM

Cheers for the responses all!!

Think im going to have a play with the fa-1, but try the Bandaxall values of the flipster maybe? Bit of breadboarding till i get the sound i want!!

Anyone else tried the fa-1??

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