Current Lover

[juansolo]

Electric Mistress clone on one of Bean's Current Lover PCBs.

[Luke51411]

Clean as ever! Nice work!

[mrclean77]

Another banger - love the Clegg-Tronix font 

[pickdropper]

That looks great.  Where did you get the knobs?

[jimilee]

Excellent as always.


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[BrianS]

👍👍👍👍. Very nice.

[juansolo]

That looks great.  Where did you get the knobs?

They're Cliff 14.8mm, splined 6mm shaft push on, metal outside, plastic inner jobbies from CPC. Marvellous things. Ah they were to be our signature knobs for the stillborn pedal line (upping the perceived value from the usual cheapy mixer knobs we use). As such we've got a bag of 'em left from when I reverted the pedals to our more usual style (they're £1 each vs about 50p each of the mixer knobs... I'm cheap). They get used on odd things that suit it. When it goes together in the next few days, Jason's Scarab is getting a set also

http://cpc.farnell.com/cliff-electronic-components/fc7230/knob-kmr15-blk-md-6mm-spl-18t/dp/SW05311

They do a big one also that we use for BIG OMAR

http://cpc.farnell.com/cliff-electronic-components/fc7234/knob-kmr35-blk-md-6mm-spl-18t/dp/SW05314

Worship it!

[flanagan0718]

Great Job! I can't begin to tell you how many times I've had to tweak one of the jack arms to get everything to fit haha. Awesome inside and out, as always.

[storyboardist]

Fantastic as always! Especially with the nicer knobs 

[juansolo]

Things of note. This thing sounds WAY better running from a 12v PSU. Where on 9v it's not very tolerant of humbuckers and is prone to distortion, that all goes away. However, it REALLY doesn't like having a charge pump in there to do it. So you have to go with a real external PSU and re-bias it for it. Totally worth it though, it's the best I've heard one of these sound.

[Luke51411]

Things of note. This thing sounds WAY better running from a 12v PSU. Where on 9v it's not very tolerant of humbuckers and is prone to distortion, that all goes away. However, it REALLY doesn't like having a charge pump in there to do it. So you have to go with a real external PSU and re-bias it for it. Totally worth it though, it's the best I've heard one of these sound.

Ooh good info. I just built one, ill have to try it

[Adam_DIY]

I've got one of these ready to box up too just waiting on the enclosure turning up.  Can this run stock with a 12 volt power supply or do I have to change anything?  All my caps are rated higher than that.

[culturejam]

Yet another super-clean build. 

[juansolo]

I've got one of these ready to box up too just waiting on the enclosure turning up.  Can this run stock with a 12 volt power supply or do I have to change anything?  All my caps are rated higher than that.

If your caps are up to it, you should have no probs. The BBD is designed to run at a 15v (a minimum of 10v ideally). Which is what we would have run it at had the charge pump worked. Originals ran at either 12v or 15v with a transformer on board IIRC.

[JC103]

Things of note. This thing sounds WAY better running from a 12v PSU. Where on 9v it's not very tolerant of humbuckers and is prone to distortion, that all goes away. However, it REALLY doesn't like having a charge pump in there to do it. So you have to go with a real external PSU and re-bias it for it. Totally worth it though, it's the best I've heard one of these sound.

I totally agree. I have two of the previous versions built with the 3007 and biased for 12v operation. Very authentic sounding. I'm curious to get one of the new ones set up for 12v. I demoed a friends a couple months ago at 9v and it was uninspiring.

Nice build, I dig the classic look!