5150 Pedal

I was asked by a friend if i could make a distortion pedal that would sound like a Peavey 5150. So i thought, if someone had done it for the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier with the Dr. Boogey, maybe i could do the same for this one. I found some schematics on the web, and got to work. This was the breadboard i tested it on. Surprisingly (considering my lack of experience with the breadboard) it worked right away. And sounded pretty good. So once the customer gave the OK, i got to ordering all that was needed to make it.


I decided to make one for myself as well. The one with 8 knobs is mine. The other one was made for Marco of the band Omission . His was simpler as he only wanted to switch between two volume settings and of course, turn the effect on and off. Mine had independent gain as well.





This is a quite different type of distortion from what i had so far, much brighter. But i like it. Always nice to have more options.