125B · 4 knobs
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
Report a wrong parse| Ref | Value | Normalized | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistors 21 | ||||
| R1 | 100r | 100 | ||
| R2 | 22k | 22k | ||
| R3 | 22k | 22k | ||
| R4 | 2m2 | 0.0022 | ||
| R5 | 1k | 1k | ||
| R6 | 330k | 330k | ||
| R7 | 100k | 100k | ||
| R8 | 100k | 100k | ||
| R9 | 470r | 470 | ||
| R10 | 470k | 470k | ||
| R11 | 10k | 10k | ||
| R12 | 47k | 47k | ||
| R13 | 1k | 1k | ||
| R14 | 47k | 47k | ||
| R15 | 47k | 47k | ||
| R16 | 330k | 330k | ||
| R17 | 4k7 | 4.7k | ||
| R18 | 33k | 33k | ||
| R19 | 470r | 470 | ||
| R21 | 4k7 | 4.7k | ||
| R22 | 4k7 | 4.7k | ||
| Capacitors 17 | ||||
| C1 | 100n | 100n | ||
| C2 | 47n | 47n | ||
| C5 | 1n5 | 1.5n | ||
| C6 | 47n | 47n | ||
| C7 | 47n | 47n | ||
| C8 | 47p | 47p | ||
| C9 | 47n | 47n | ||
| C11 | 2n2 | 2.2n | ||
| C12 | 6n8 | 6.8n | ||
| C13 | 10n | 10n | ||
| C14 | 47n | 47n | ||
| C15 | 100p | 100p | ||
| C16 | 100n | 100n | ||
| C3 | 100u | 100u | ||
| C4 | 47u | 47u | ||
| C10 | 4u7 | 4.7u | ||
| C18 | 4u7 | 4.7u | ||
| Diodes 2 | ||||
| D1 | 1N5817 | 1N5817 | ||
| D2 | 1N914 | 1N914 | ||
| Transistors 3 | ||||
| Q1 | BC550 | BC550 | ||
| Q2 | BC549C | BC549C | ||
| Q3 | BC549C | BC549C | ||
| ICs 1 | ||||
| IC1 | TL072 | TL072 | ||
| Potentiometers 4 | ||||
| VOLUME | 10KA | A10k | Potentiometer | |
| FUZZ | 1KB | B1k | Potentiometer | |
| TONE | 100KB | B100k | Potentiometer | |
| BIAS | 1K | 1k | Potentiometer | |
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