We take a look at the new mxr fet driver pedal from jim dunlop. An amp in a box design with the creamy smooth saturation of a fet circuit. The mxr custom shop joe bonamassa pelham blue fet driver comes in a limited. Featuring a unique circuit design by jeorge tripps and the mxr team, the. Yep, jb fet driver is the top pic and the bottom pic is regular mxr fet driver. The joe bonamassa pelham blue fet driver features a unique circuit design.
Mxr fet driver organic, amplike overdrive and distortion twoband eq section for detailed shaping of distorted signal true bypass switching featuring a unique circuit design, the mxr fet. When i build a fet pedal i usually tweak to have the drains around half of the available voltage. Featuring a unique circuit design, the mxr fet driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube amplifier by cascading an opamp gain stage into a fet stage. Joe bonamassa mxr fet driver pelham blue special edition joe. Featuring a unique circuit design, the mxr fet driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube amplifier by cascading an opamp gain stage into a. Here is a list of the schematics that are exclusive to this site. This simple and reliable design that uses only 1 opamp and 1 potentiometer will boost the guitar signal up to 26db, giving a clean flat frequency response. Theres probably more but these ones are obvious, even to my untrained eye. We created several and we have redrawn some schematics that were already available on the internet for readability or ease of use these needed an easiertoread format, corrections or part identifiers. The other 4 pedals featured reproduce the same sort of sound via transistorstyle circuits. Mxr fet driver is different to joe bonamassa signature fet.
It doesnt clean up as nice as my tube driver, and thats a disappointment. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Fet driver featuring a unique circuit design, the mxr fet driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube amplifier by cascading an opamp gain. And all i see is a regulator, one opamp, one through hole fet and a chip that is not an sadly, i couldnt find a schematic of the analog board to confirm how the distortion part is made up. The fet driver features a simple but responsive set of controls. Featuring a unique circuit design, the mxr fet driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube amplifier by cascading an opamp. The fet driver thickens up lead tones with musical, amplike distortion and sustain without the fragility and inconsistency associated with tubes.
The mxr micro amp circuit can be divided into two blocks. This is what mxr have to say about this pedal featuring a unique circuit design, the mxr fet driver captures the rich, creamy sound of an overdriven tube. This limited edition signature pedal captures the rich, creamy sound of an. The core of the pedal is a handselected 12ax7 tube which gives. Mxr sub machine octave fuzz pedal demo by sweetwater sound duration. Distortion mxr fet driver two phase 90 circuits in a single phase 90sized housing.
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