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Love Cheese

Based on the Lovetone Big Cheese· 2 other boards clone it

Category
Fuzz· Harmonically rich Fuzz
Controls
Volume · Fuzz · Tone · Bias
Difficulty
Intermediate
Price
€11.90out of stock

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From the vendor

Project overview:

Try this classic, tasty, busy, and beautiful, harmonically rich fuzz inspired by Big Cheese. Made in the UK for only a short time in the mid to late 1990s, it offers many of the classic characteristics that every fuzz fan will relate to, and it goes beyond creating an absolutely distinct character of its own.

Introduction

Versatile doesn’t even begin to describe this pedal. Its control set will let you achieve just about any fuzz tone you can imagine, from violin-like sustain to red-hot buzz to spitty grind and so on.

Volume, Fuzz, and Tone knobs give you plenty of tone-sculpting power, while the Boost switch lets you control the volume that comes out of your amplifier. Last but not least, we have the 4-position tone switch that unlocks all of the different flavors that Love Cheese can offer.

Controls

Potentiometers

• Fuzz

• Tone

• Volume

Switches

• Boost

• Mode

For further analysis on this circuit take a look at this thread on Free Stomp Boxes Forum.

For any technical questions regarding this build, don’t forget to check out our Facebook Group and our forum at Free Stomp Boxes.

Love Cheese – Building Docs

Love Cheese – Drilling template

Schematic

The schematic is in the vendor's build document, page 5. Open the build document. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.

Parts list 48 rows

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Resistors 21
R1100r100
R222k22k
R322k22k
R42m20.0022
R51k1k
R6330k330k
R7100k100k
R8100k100k
R9470r470
R10470k470k
R1110k10k
R1247k47k
R131k1k
R1447k47k
R1547k47k
R16330k330k
R174k74.7k
R1833k33k
R19470r470
R214k74.7k
R224k74.7k
Capacitors 17
C1100n100n
C247n47n
C51n51.5n
C647n47n
C747n47n
C847p47p
C947n47n
C112n22.2n
C126n86.8n
C1310n10n
C1447n47n
C15100p100p
C16100n100n
C3100u100u
C447u47u
C104u74.7u
C184u74.7u
Diodes 2
D11N58171N5817
D21N9141N914
Transistors 3
Q1BC550BC550
Q2BC549CBC549C
Q3BC549CBC549C
ICs 1
IC1TL072TL072
Potentiometers 4
VOLUME10KAA10kPotentiometer
FUZZ1KBB1kPotentiometer
TONE100KBB100kPotentiometer
BIAS1K1kPotentiometer

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