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I built this just because I’m a tweed tone freak, and I am very impressed with the sound. This pedal could easily be a great “channel two” for a clean amp. It oozes tweed clean tones (a la 59 Bassman) with the gain knob down at 9 O’Clock or so, between 9 and 3 O’Clock, it’s Tweed Bandmaster all the way… gritty, grind, wonderful overtones, and plentiful high-end bite. Once at 3 O’Clock or beyond, it’s a very good rendition of a “pushed-over-the-top” 5E3… woofs out, gets a little farty, and all the low end comes to the front… just like a real tweed amp.
It was good enough that I have now purchased more boards to build other items from the shop – this was my first foray into Guitar PCB. I’ll keep building from your inventory, if they’re all this nice.
Pics below and a short demo (YouTube Link) – my apologies for the rambling noodling and the occasional volume jump… it’s just an iPhone video. The Amp is a Two Rock Classic Reverb and the Guitar is a Whitfill Cousin Paul (dual humbucker T-Shaped with Gibson scale length).
That is a sharp looking build. I am glad you enjoy it. The demo sounds great and I agree since I did a similar thing with my Fender Twin and it just opens up a lot of new tones you would not otherwise have available. I love the Two Rock as well BTW.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Barry. I bought a couple more amp-emulation boards recently… can’t wait to try the Plexi and the Vox ones.
I know this thread is old, but I just want to second the sentiment. “Who’s Next” is a brilliant pedal! I built one recently, and it immediately earned its space on my pedalboard. It is now the sole overdrive/distortion on that board (though I have a couple of fuzzes). Into my Twin Reverb Custom 15 (with a Jensen C15K replacing the Eminence speaker), it is darn close to having a tweed channel. Unusually, the pedal is great through the whole gain range, from chimey saturation in the morning to meltdown in the afternoon. I have no idea how close this pedal is to an actual 1959 Bandmaster, having never played through one, but who cares.
Is this pedal based on an existing design, or is it completely original? Either way, it is a fantastic design, so much more natural-sounding than your average back-to-back diode-clipping circuits.
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