Lovepedal - Black Beauty '07

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I just ran into this and wondered, is this possible?
http://www.lovepedal.com/BBB.htm

Can it really do tonebender, fuzzface, rangemaster, distortion, overdrive, clean boost, flat boost, even tweed amps are in this box.

are you kidding me?

This box with 3 knobs is capable of all these sounds?

The last statement he has on it is classic

"This IS one of the very few designs that can pull off anything from MKII distortion, blistering rangemaster action to fuzzface heaven and BEYOND!"

what the hell is this thing?

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Post by oscarv77 »

Clearly, alien technology has been exploited in order to create this pedal...

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I now need to sell all my pedals, I've clearly found a calling. Must buy Lovepedal, must buy Lovepedal...


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Post by briggs »

lovebollocks. I can't wait to see what he's ripped off here :?
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Post by bacaruda »

Like zvex with the SHO, I think Sean gets a TON of use out of the COT50 circuit. I'm almost positive that all of his drive/boost pedals (other than the eternity, of course) are based on it.

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Post by MoreCowbell »

IIRC, its based on a tweaked fuzz face, and one of the pots is a bias pot....but I may be mistaken.

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Post by polarbearfx »

what kind of trannies would be stable enough to actually sound good in this kind of situation?

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Post by tuemmueh »

If my informations are correct (and I think so!), the blend-pot is ... *drum roll* a rip-off of Joe Gagans input-capacitor-mod in the easy face. Blending between two caps! Cool idea and works very well but ... it won't blend between a Range, Face and Tonebender ... Sorry Sean ;)

the other two pots are, as you guessed correct, fuzz & volume. There's nothing more to talk about, only a standard Ge-Fuzz. Wow. I mean, really wow. Like ... wow. ;)

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Let's build it with just one mojotastic knob. We'll call it Wylde Stallion.

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Post by polarbearfx »

so its probably a total joe face easy face with mods. nice description lovey, pretty tall order for an easy face.

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lovepedal and sean's stand on ethics. Interesting to say the least.
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Post by JHS »

Take a Ge FF/TB and wire a RM parallel, add a blend pot and you have a similar circuit. I think the Kadent treble fuzz is close too.

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Post by soulsonic »

I'd rather get a Jacques Mercer Box. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what he's ripping off.

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Post by Cloud10 »

Anyone have a schematic/layout? I'm interested in getting some tighter fuzz face/rangemaster in between type sounds.

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Post by kusi »

found this on a old hard-disk... Black Beauty Balance from lovepedal...

pls. note that C1 and C2 should be "switched", otherwise the blend-knob won`t work.... ;)

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Post by Greg »

Thanks Kusi..

I've owned a couple of these in the past.. it's essentially the same as the Dragon, White Dragon, Ezekiel, etc.
Same old Lovepedal routine of making a slight tweak to the same circuit, and calling it a new name to confuse everyone and generate sales... and also of making out that it's something it's not.

It's a high gain Fuzz Face with a Blend on the Input Cap.

Clean or Flat Boost ?? :roll:
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