Figaro Drive - Brian May in-a-box

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One of the most instantly recognisable guitar tones in history, and now you can take a step towards it with a little 60 x 110mm box. Mr May famously uses cranked Vox AC30s with an always-on treble booster pushing them. This circuit combines an AC30 preamp section with a silicon RangeMaster in front. Hugely responsive to dynamics, you can go from full, glorious crunch with your guitar volume right up, to classic Vox jangle with it wound back. Increadibly versatile and a must to cut through a band set-up. Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightning..... The kit is supplied with vertical-mount pots which have round shafts, so you'll need set-screw fitting knobs. All credit to JuanSolo and Cleggy for tracing the circuit. If you want the PCB without parts there's a link for that at the bottom of the page. Partial kit: PCB, all board-mounted components, pots. Full kit: As above, plus footswitch and appropriate daughterboard/components for your selected bypass type (see Downloads section for details of those), jack sockets, DC socket, battery snap, hook-up wire, LED. Enclosure (pre-drilled) is available as an option with full kits, and will not take a battery. Knobs are not included. Builds are only available with full kits including enclosure and vertical-mount pots. Please choose appropriate knobs. Inspired by: Galileo Difficulty: Medium PCB size: 42 x 50mm Knobs required: 3 Enclosure: 1590B Direct-Connect compatible (4-way) Download the INSTRUCTION PDF