Black Lab

[Droogie]

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!

[Drew Hallenbeck]

Looks great! I haven't started mine yet but I'm really looking forward to it.

[stringsthings]

That looks fantastic.  I'd like to build one of these but I've got too much in the backlog for now.

[m-Kresol]

Nicely done. the knobs alone are worth a fortune

[jtaormina]

Nicely done. the knobs alone are worth a fortune

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

[Thomas_H]

Nice build! and nice board from Aion.

[Droogie]

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.

[bcalla]

Very nice!  Still waiting on parts before I can start mine, so I'm glad to hear you're happy with it.

[Orbis_Ignis]

Nice job! I just ordered my parts the other day. Can't wait

[Droogie]

You'll have fun building this one! Hopefully I'll get to calibrating the distortion tomorrow and  see how that sounds.

[Frank_NH]

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!