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Thursday, March 26, 2015

AMT Legend Series S1

Got a request for the S2, but have been unable to track down a schematic for it, so here's the S1 in the meantime. It's an emulator/preamp of a Soldano tube amp, and like most amp emulators it uses JFET transistors. The original uses mostly SMD components with the exception of some capacitors, which is how they cram it into such a small box. As soon as I saw the schematic I figured this would be a good 1590BB project.  Since it has 6 pots, I wanted to keep the offboard wiring at a minimum, so I made a daughter board to hard mount the pots using 16mm right angle PCB pots. This daughter board can then be attached to the mother board using sockets and pin headers, basically stacking the 2 boards. I would mount the sockets to the solder-side of the mother board, and the pin headers to the component-side of the daughter board (as the pots would be mounted on the solder-side of the daughter board). This might be a crazy idea, and if you opt to just use hook-up wire to connect the 2 boards, you won't need to wire the DB3 or DB6 connections, as they were added mostly for extra stability if you are using the socket and pin header approach.




Not included is the cab sim part of this pedal. If anyone is interested in a 2nd daughter board for this section, let me know and I'll draw it up and add it. Since the original mostly uses SMD parts, some of the members over on the FSB forum modified the circuit a bit to use more common through-hole parts. J201s are substituted for the original SMD 2SK208, and 1N4148 in place of BAT54 diodes. There are 2 caps that they weren't able to determine the value of. Based on the rest of the circuit, a good place to start would be 3.3µ for the first cap below Q1 (which I assume is an electrolytic based on the rest of the circuit), and 47nF for the cap between Q3 and Q4. Socket and experiment. Good luck!

11 comments:

  1. Hi, You have built this pedal and it works?Why do you use a Presence pot, it not be in original pedal. Sorry for me English

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    1. It's still labled as unverified, so no. No one has built it that I'm aware of. The presence control was apparently in the schematic I drew this from. Didn't even realize it wasn't in the original. haha

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    2. I will etch and try to build it today, will leave a comment if it works

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  2. Hello, I am ready to make this pedal, I thought of designing the circuit from the pcb to analyze values, since I found a schematic but it is something different, now if they have it would be very helpful, thanks regards

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    1. Schematic I used was in the FSB thread. You'll need to create a login for access.

      http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15891&p=182343&hilit=amt+legend&#p182343

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  3. После не больших изменений номиналов некоторых деталей все заработало с полевыми транзисторами с отсечкой 1-1,6В

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  4. Ссылка на фото изменений https://vk.com/photo-1204296_456240447

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  5. Hey Dave, I'm having trouble biasing the jfets. Trimpot 2 is affecting Q3 but none of the other trimpots have an effect
    Voltages are
    Supply: 8.5
    Q1: 0
    Q2: 8.5
    Q3: Got it down to 5.5
    Q4: 2.4
    Q5: 8.5
    Q6: 5

    Help? lol

    @bennydriz

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    1. You may need to increase the value of some of the trimmers/make sure your trimmers aren’t busted. Lol Q6 seems ok, but Q1 should be getting some voltage I would thing. So you may want to check the resistors and cap coming if the drain there and adjust those values if necessary as well.

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  6. Would love to see the cab sim from AMT also, as you mentioned above...

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  7. Built this one and could only get it to work using 2N5457's. I had to replace resistors to drains of Q1, 3 and 6 and also the cap between Q3 and Q4. Works but still quite muddy. Will continue experimenting ... which is half the fun ... I guess :)

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