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Nightfire 14 watt build

Started by Cinefactus, November 22, 2024, 05:50:47 PM

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Cinefactus

Hello,

I built a Nightfire Electronics 14 watt amplifier with the Marshall tone stack and stuffed it in a metal box. I really like the sound of it. I'd like to get the preamp in a pedal format. It's a super clean amp which works well with my numerous pedals I play with. Anyone know of any PCB's that do similar? I thought about a Tonemender but I'm not at that skill level, I'd need a PCB.

Loudthud

What does it use for a power supply ? What did you build it on if you didn't have a PCB ?

Tassieviking

Is this the right schematic ?
It looks very simple to make a pedal from that.
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Loudthud

What a poor design. No gain from Q1. Q1 is a switching FET not intended for Audio. High Impedance tone stack more appropriate for a tube amp. Low input impedance inverting opamp stage loads the tone stack too much. Power amp is OK but 100K input is higher than recommended for that chip.

Looks like it was hacked together by some internet hack without a clue.

joecool85

Quote from: Loudthud on November 23, 2024, 12:08:52 PMWhat a poor design. No gain from Q1. Q1 is a switching FET not intended for Audio. High Impedance tone stack more appropriate for a tube amp. Low input impedance inverting opamp stage loads the tone stack too much. Power amp is OK but 100K input is higher than recommended for that chip.

Looks like it was hacked together by some internet hack without a clue.

I agree.  This guy has TONS of electronics kits for sale, all of similar quality.  https://vakits.com/
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