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Title: Black Lab
Post by: Droogie on May 19, 2016, 03:40:14 PM
I finished the Lab Series L-5 preamp pedal from Aion. Fortunately it fired right up! There's a lot of tone shaping possible with this puppy. I had both a Lab Series L-5 and a Pearce preamp (same lineage) back in the day, so I was really excited to see this project—I'm not disappointed. I still haven't gone through the process of calibrating the distortion; the comp trim is set at minimum and sounds great. Labels are forthcoming!

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Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: Drew Hallenbeck on May 19, 2016, 04:59:20 PM
Looks great! I haven't started mine yet but I'm really looking forward to it.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: stringsthings on May 20, 2016, 04:50:30 AM
That looks fantastic.  I'd like to build one of these but I've got too much in the backlog for now.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: m-Kresol on May 20, 2016, 07:52:48 AM
Nicely done. the knobs alone are worth a fortune ;)
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: jtaormina on May 20, 2016, 10:33:48 AM
Quote from: m-Kresol on May 20, 2016, 07:52:48 AM
Nicely done. the knobs alone are worth a fortune ;)

I was just thinking that. Those knobs do look great though.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: Thomas_H on May 20, 2016, 12:05:27 PM
Nice build! and nice board from Aion.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: Droogie on May 20, 2016, 06:58:03 PM
Quote from: jtaormina on May 20, 2016, 10:33:48 AM
Quote from: m-Kresol on May 20, 2016, 07:52:48 AM
Nicely done. the knobs alone are worth a fortune ;)

I was just thinking that. Those knobs do look great though.

Yeah, I went all out on the knobbage on this one! I think of it as sort of a 401k.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: bcalla on May 20, 2016, 09:35:06 PM
Very nice!  Still waiting on parts before I can start mine, so I'm glad to hear you're happy with it.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: Orbis_Ignis on May 21, 2016, 01:41:26 AM
Nice job! I just ordered my parts the other day. Can't wait
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: Droogie on May 21, 2016, 03:04:57 AM
You'll have fun building this one! Hopefully I'll get to calibrating the distortion tomorrow and  see how that sounds.
Title: Re: Black Lab
Post by: Frank_NH on May 22, 2016, 12:28:31 PM
I have a friend who has a vintage L5 series guitar amp.  I'd love to build this someday and compare it to his unit.

I suppose one could build a modern guitar amp using this as a preamp and sending its output to a good quality solid state power amp (perhaps a amp head arrangement).  That would be cool!