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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Looks great! I haven't started mine yet but I'm really looking forward to it.
That looks fantastic. I'd like to build one of these but I've got too much in the backlog for now.
Nicely done. the knobs alone are worth a fortune ;)
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.
Nice build! and nice board from Aion.
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.
Very nice! Still waiting on parts before I can start mine, so I'm glad to hear you're happy with it.
Nice job! I just ordered my parts the other day. Can't wait
You'll have fun building this one! Hopefully I'll get to calibrating the distortion tomorrow and see how that sounds.
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!