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Re: LBP-1 vs SHO

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1/14/2000 1:01 PM

Re: LBP-1 vs SHO

There's nothing wrong with the way a well-built LPB-1 sounds. R.G. said its not very interesting, which is generally speaking true, but it boosts and it's pretty clean (to my ears) and it's a great project to do if you're new at building stompboxes (I think the AMZ minibooster sounds better, but it's got quite a few more parts).

I think that maybe the one bad thing that comes out of this board is that one or two knowledgeable people will say something negative about a particular stompbox and then we all have the tendency to generally think it's a completely worthless total piece of junk after that. I've let that happen to me a time or two, but then I realized that I LIKE some of the stuff that gets criticized regularly around here. Some people are gonna like it, some people aren't, but don't let what R.G. said stop you from building an LPB-1 (it you haven't built one yet) or anything else you want to build.

JD (stepping off soap box now)

1/14/2000 4:45 PM
DavidB	Yeah the LPB-1 isn't bad but I was wondering if there was a tweak, perhaps different transistors,change a value.Iv'e built many tube amps but am new to effects tinkering.

1/14/2000 5:20 PM

I think it is important to remember that when some folks say "not very interesting", what they mean is that the circuit is relatively cookbook-derived, and not idiosyncratic enough to be given more consideration than anything else of that type. The LPB-1 isn't really that different than anything else one might find in a book of basic transistor circuits. Its historical distinction was that EH thought is was worth sticking in a box and selling to musicians, and some musicians thought that EH was right. I suspect the same could be said for just about any op-amp-and-two-diodes distortion device, or any treble-bass-and-volume-in-a-box unit.

It's a bit like movie reviews. YOU may like a movie with car chases or petulant teenagers, but folks who watch these things for a living tend to get impatient with movies that decline to go beyond terrain that has been explored thoroughly. What can I say, folks who've seen it all tend to get jaded.

1/14/2000 6:57 PM
Hammy	Yeah! Aron hurt my feelings when he made fun of Peaveys! ;P

1/14/2000 7:16 PM

I wasn't making fun of Peaveys. Actually it is documented that the LPB-1 gave Hartley Peavey the idea for cascaded distortion stages. I remember a 2 12" Peavey amp in the early 80's I think that sounded quite incredible. Like a Marshall sound.

The Guitar Player article - yes! Pretty funny - the LBP-1 must have been distorting.

BTW: I must have bought tons of those LBP-1s in the 70's and 80's. I really liked them. Ironic that it was on my quest to build the LBP-1 that I started building effects.

You know the sad part? I don't even have an LBP-1 in a box right now. :-(

:-(

I know I could build it in no time - I guess I will build one this weekend.

Darn it, I think I will make a number of tiny boosters to chain together!

I can hear it now! Aron, plays 6 assorted boosters chained together for massive overdrive!

Aron

1/14/2000 8:40 PM
Joe	I found the AMZ minibooster schem this morning. I may go with that one. Who knows. Joe

1/14/2000 9:11 PM
adrian	Do it Joe! You won't be sorry - this one is a winner.

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