Making your own preamp?

[Moos3h]

Hi all

My Dad and I made an Ampmaker amp over Christmas and absolutely loved the whole experience. We now want to look at other projects and I really fancy making my own on board three band EQ and preamp (perhaps with a couple of switches for extra stuff too).

The patient bass that it will end up in is a Cort GB74 so a U-retro would drop straight in but we are dead keen to build something.

Does anyone know of any guides plans or kits we could look at?

Cheers!
James

[UglyDog]

There are several schematics and vero layouts for 2 band EQs online -- Stingray, Sabre, Sadowsky, Alembic even -- but i haven't yet found a 3 band one. If you find one, let me know!

[LukeFRC]

this is quite interesting thread
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/tb11-preamp-project.669517/

[Moos3h]

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1421611251' post='2663295']
this is quite interesting thread
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/tb11-preamp-project.669517/
[/quote]

Ooh ta - some reading to do there!

[Passinwind]

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1421611251' post='2663295']
this is quite interesting thread
[url="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/tb11-preamp-project.669517/"]http://www.talkbass....project.669517/[/url]
[/quote]

Yep, and there's also this one: [url="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/pcbs-for-diy-clone-2-band-preamps.737117/"]http://www.talkbass....preamps.737117/[/url]

I built one of those Uncle Fluffy 2-band boards up, did a few of the documented mods, and enjoyed it a lot in my old Travis Bean fretless. This week I just finished up my own version, with a more modern opamp and film caps instead of tantalums. Seems pretty good so far, haven't tried a gig with it just yet though.




There is a guy on Talkbass selling bare MM 3-band clone boards ATM, I think: [url="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/diy-stingray-3eq-preamp.883257/#post-12648941"]http://www.talkbass..../#post-12648941[/url]

Edited February 5, 2015 by Passinwind