Akashic Guitar effects circuit lookup
LEVELBLENDDRIVE

Enclosure not stated · 3 knobs

Tagboard Effects

Darkglass Microtubes B3KVerified

Based on the Darkglass Microtubes B3K· 7 other boards clone it

Category
Overdrive
Controls
Level · Blend · Drive
Difficulty
Difficult
Build
Vero· 26×23· 53 cuts, 25 links
Layout
Verified · Tagboard Effects marks it as built and working
Tags
B3K, Bass, Darkglass, Overdrive

From the post

"The Microtubes B3K is an unusual tool - a perfect combination of brutality and clarity. It delivers defined and powerful saturation in an intuitive format. There are no rules and no limits, so dig in and unleash your tone.

Controls Level: Sets the volume of the overdriven signal. Drive: Sets the amount of saturation in the overdriven signal. Blend: Mixes the clean input signal with the overdriven signal. The clean signal remains at unity gain while the volume of the overdriven signal is set by the Level knob, allowing for fine control of the blend ratio. Grunt Switch: Sets the amount of low frequency content to saturate by selecting between three different bass boost levels before the clipping stage. Attack Switch: Sets the amount of treble content to saturate: The œBoost setting emphasizes the treble content extra clarity and presence. The œFlat position leaves this register untouched while the œCut position will reduce the amount of high frequencies being saturated. This new addition helps to keep the treble portion of the signal under control, specially useful when playing with new strings and/or cabinets with tweeters."

You can find the original FSB thread and schematic here.

The layout (like the Friedman BE-OD) has been verified as "working" in the forum section but the original has been built using SMD components and there's been some "guessing" in some of the values.

I don't know how close it is to the B3K (it may be 100%) but this is the best schematic we can get at the moment.

Schematic

This is a board layout, a drawing of where each part goes, and the post may link the schematic it was drawn from. Open the layout at Tagboard Effects. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.

Parts list 37 rows

Report a wrong parse

Got parts in a drawer? See what you can build with them.

RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 14
×1100R100read from the layout by eye
×11K1kread from the layout by eye
×23K33.3kread from the layout by eye
×26K86.8kread from the layout by eye
×510K10kread from the layout by eye
×322K22kread from the layout by eye
×133K33kread from the layout by eye
×147K47kread from the layout by eye
×3100K100kread from the layout by eye
×1200K200kread from the layout by eye
×1330K330kread from the layout by eye
×3470K470kread from the layout by eye
×71M1Mread from the layout by eye
×1??LED resistor, value not given; read from the layout by eye
Capacitors 12
×222p22pread from the layout by eye
×1220p220pread from the layout by eye
×1680p680pread from the layout by eye
×21n1nread from the layout by eye
×32n22.2nread from the layout by eye
×14n74.7nread from the layout by eye
×622n22nread from the layout by eye
×2100n100nread from the layout by eye
×2220n220nread from the layout by eye
×1330n330nread from the layout by eye
×21u1uread from the layout by eye
×2100u100uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
Diodes 2
×21N41481N4148D1, D2; read from the layout by eye
D31N58171N5817read from the layout by eye
Transistors 1
×2J201J201JFET; read from the layout by eye
ICs 3
×1TL074TL074read from the layout by eye
×1TL072TL072read from the layout by eye
×140494049read from the layout by eye
Potentiometers 3
LevelA100KA100kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
BlendB100KB100kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
DriveC100KC100kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
Switches 2
AttackSPDT on/off/onSPDT ON/OFF/ONtoggle, Switch 1; read from the layout by eye
GruntSPDT on/off/onSPDT ON/OFF/ONtoggle, Switch 2; read from the layout by eye

Other boards based on the Darkglass Microtubes B3K