EQ Development tool

Based on: Effect type: Enclosure type:

Friedman BE-OD Pedal Development Tool 1790NS
Rev G3 Eq Add-on Get your board at:
Diezel VH4 Build difficult: Volcano Device
EQD Talons Advanced Get your kit at:
Amp Tone stack Das Musikding (Europe)

Project overview:

Have you ever wonder how it will be an Acapulco gold with extended EQ? or how nice it would be a Tube
screamer with an active EQ section? Maybe Wampler Plexi with the Eq Section of the Freeman Be-od to
make your own ultimate plexi? Well now all of that is possible with our new EQ pack, consisting of 5
modular boards with the isolated tone controls of some of the most famous pedals out there.

We created the EQ packs answering our need of creating and developing new projects. This set of 4
different EQ sections had been designed with the idea of being an add-on to any of pedals that lacks of a
tone stack or that has one that you don’t feel it takes the best out of your unite.

Our ultimate goal is to allow YOU to create your own designs, mixing and experimenting with classic
effects, with one knob fuzzes and more!
Important! You should be able to read schematics to fully understand how and where to add this eqs on
the best possible way.

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Index
1. Project overview 6. Hybrid EQ
2. Index, Introduction & Controls 7. Amp Tone Stack + Gain Recovery
3. Active EQ 8. Wiring Diagram
4. Benzin EQ 9. Drill Template
5. Falcon EQ 10. Licensing and Usage

Introduction
This pack includes five of the most versatile and useful tone stacks in order to fulfil al your needs and to
cover the whole spectrum of possibilities.

Hybrid EQ: Based on the the EQ section of the REVV G3 and G4 present on our Revolution III and IV.
Combines a Baxandall section for the bass and treble frequencies with an active mid control section.

In this project we have included a Volume trim pot instead of the vol pot on the Revv. This could be
bypassed, or you can connect an external pot through the numeric PADS (1, 2/OUT, 3)

Active EQ: Based on the Freeman BE-OD and the Dirty Shirley EQ section. We consider this EQ the best fit
for Preamp emulator projects and high gain pedals.

Certainly the most complex of the pack. Includes an internal Presence control, followed by Character
trimpot that regulates how a set of LEDs compress the signal. Then we jump into a passive treble control,
followed by an Active Bass section. Now’s when you have to choose if you want to have a volume control
of the overall circuit inserted here from your main PCB board (Tube screamer, Plexi, etc) or to place just
an internal trimmer as an additional control. After this volume section it comes the active mids control.

One of the characteristic that makes this board the best solution for preamps and high output circuits it’s
the Power output option, this works the best for those high output preamps to go and feed directly into a
power amp, and the regular output will be tamed into a more pedal friendly volume. If you are using this
board with a pedal that’s not famous for his big output (Klon centaur for example) you should use the
power output.

Amp Tone stack + Gain recovery: This Tone section is more focus on the ones that prefer a more classic
and amp alike approach on their builds.

Recreates the 3 bands tone stack on the same way as it’s on tube amplifier and on many other famous
amp in a box pedals (Catalinbread dirty little secret). This board allows you to experiment with different
values in order to get different tone response based on many classic amps.

Following the tone section we have an external Presence control that follows the same amp a like logic.
As usually this tone stacks suck a lot of volume and gain, we have included at last one gain recovery
stage. If you want to go with a more vintage approach you can easily bypass this last section.

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Falcon EQ: Based on EQD Talons tone section. Advertised as an active EQ by the people form Akron, Ohio
this EQ acts as a booster of the selected frequencies above twelve o’clock.

Includes an external Presence control that goes before the 3 band tone stack.

Benzin EQ: Based on the tone control of the Diezel VH4, this is definitely the one with more knobs, the
one that will make tweakholics and high fans fall in love as equal!

At first it might look like pretty similar to the Amp Tone stack + Gain recovery, as the first section looks
pretty similar. Both start with the 3 band Amp tone stack and the Gain recovery stage. However the first
difference is the Presence control, located after the gain recovery stage and bounded with the Deep
Control.

This design also includes the possibility of have two simultaneous outputs as the Active EQ, featuring the
same type of power output and tame output.

Important! You should be able to read schematics to fully understand how and where to add this eqs on
the best possible way.

How to use them: there are many different ways of using this EQ boards, for example if you want to use
them with our Preamp sections based on Bajaman designs you can simply add them after the preamp
section, like if it was another pedal in series. The same principle applies with fuzzes or drives that lacks
of a tone control section. You can even try them even before the main Effect.

For that purpose we even recommend to box the Eqs as if they were normal pedals so you can plug them
and compare them easily.

However if you want to insert this EQS as a replacement for a pedal that already has a Tone control, like
a TS 808, KoT, Klon, etc, you should be able to read schematics and spot which is the best part to place
them and which parts of the original circuit you should remove. Any doubt you have about this could be
answered on our Facebook group PCB Guitar Mania – Builders Group.

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Bill of materials – Active EQ

Resistors Electrolytics
Part Value Capacitors
R1 2K2 Part Value
R2 33K C19 22uf
R3 33K
R4 2K2
Potentiometers
R5 470K
Part Value
R6 2K2
BASS 100K C
R7 2k2
MIDS 100K C
R8 22K
TREBLE 100K B
R9 100K
R10 2K2
R11 150k Trimpots
R12 100k Part Value
R13 20K CHARAKTER 100k
R14 22K
R15 2k2 PRESENCE 10k

VOL 50k A
Capacitors
Part Value
C1 10n IC
C2 4n7 Part Value
C3 22n IC1 TL072
C4 220n IC2 TL072
C5 2n2
C6 10n
C7 220n Diodes
C8 2n2 Part Value
C10 100n LED1 3mm LED
LED2 3mm LED

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Resistors Potentiometers
Qty Value Parts Qty Value Parts
1 100K R9 1 b100K TREBLE
1 100k R12 2 c100K BASS, MIDS
1 150k R11
1 20K R13
2 22K R8, R14
4 2K2 R1, R4, R6, Trimpots
R10 Qty Value Parts
2 2k2 R7, R15 1 100k CHARAKTER
2 33K R2, R3
1 470K R5 1 50k A VOL
1 10k PRESENCE

Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
IC
1 100n C10
Qty Value Parts
2 10n C1, C6
2 TL072 IC1, IC2
2 220n C4, C7
1 22n C3
2 2n2 C5, C8 Diodes
1 4n7 C2 Qty Value Parts
2 3mm LED1, LED2
LED
Electrolytics Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
1 22uf C19

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Schematic – Active EQ

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Bill of materials – Benzin EQ
Resistors Electrolytics
Part Value Capacitors
R1 39k Part Value
R2 1M5 C5 10u
R3 100k C6 1u
R4 10k C7 2u2
R5 4k7 C9 10u
R6 1k
R7 100r
Potentiometers
R8 56k
Part Value
R9 47r
BASS 1M A
R10 1k
DEEP 25K C
R11 150k
MID 25K B
R12 100k
PRES 25K C
TREBLE 250K B
Capacitors VOL 10K A
Part Value
C1 560p
IC
C2 22n
Part Value
C3 22n
IC1 TL072CP
C4 1n
C8 330n
C10 2n2 Diodes
Part Value
D1 1n5817

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Shopping list – Benzin EQ
Resistors Potentiometers
Qty Value Parts Qty Value Parts
2 100k R3, R12 1 10K A VOL
1 100r R7 1 1M A BASS
1 10k R4 1 250K B TREBLE
1 150k R11 1 25K B MID
1 1M5 R2 2 25K C DEEP,
2 1k R6, R10 PRES
1 39k R1
1 47r R9
1 4k7 R5
1 56k R8 IC
Qty Value Parts
1 TL072CP IC1
Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
1 1n C4 Diodes
2 22n C2, C3 Qty Value Parts
1 2n2 C10 1 1n5817 D1
1 330n C8
1 560p C1

Electrolytics Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
2 10u C5, C9
1 1u C6
1 2u2 C7

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Schematic – Benzin EQ

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Bill of materials – Falcon EQ
Resistors Electrolytics
Part Value Capacitors
R1 10K Part Value
R2 10K C2 1u
R3 10K C13 2u2
R4 3K3 C22 10u
R5 3K3
R6 2K2
Potentiometers
R7 2K2
Part Value
R14 1K
BASS B50K
R15 1K
MID B50K
R22 10K
PRES B5K
R23 10K
TREBLE B100K

Capacitors
IC
Part Value
Part Value
C1 3n3
IC1 TL072
C3 47n
C4 22n
C5 4n7 Diodes
C6 4n7 Part Value
D1 1n5817

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Resistors Potentiometers
Qty Value Parts Qty Value Parts
5 10K R1, R2, 1 B100K TREBLE
R3, R22, 2 B50K BASS,
R23 MID
2 1K R14, 1 B5K PRES
R15
2 2K2 R6, R7
2 3K3 R4, R5 IC
Qty Value Parts
1 TL072 IC1
Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
1 22n C4 Diodes
1 3n3 C1 Qty Value Parts
1 47n C3 1 1n5817 D1
2 4n7 C5, C6

Electrolytics Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
1 10u C22
1 1u C2
1 2u2 C13

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Bill of materials – Hybrid EQ
Resistors Capacitors
Part Value Part Value
R1 100k C1 47n
R2 4k7 C2 100n
R3 2k C3 4n7
R4 100k C4 47n
R5 470k C5 47n
R6 10k C6 220nf
R7 22k C7 2n2
R8 1m C8 10n
R9 10k C9 10n
R10 1k5 C10 100p
R11 10k C11 220nf
R12 470k C13 100n
R13 2k C14 100n
R14 10R
R15 20K
R16 20K Electrolytics
Capacitors
R17 1K5
Part Value
C12 100u
Trimpots C15 22u
Part Value
VOLUME A50k
Potentiometers
Part Value
IC BASS A100K
Part Value MID B100k
IC3 TLO74 TREBLE A50k

Diodes
Part Value
D1 1N5817

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Shopping list – Hybrid EQ
Resistors Potentiometers
Qty Value Parts Qty Value Parts
2 100k R1, R4 1 A100K BASS
1 10R R14 1 A50k TREBLE
3 10k R6, R9, 1 B100k MID
R11
1 1K5 R17
1 1k5 R10 Trimpots
1 1m R8 Qty Value Parts
2 20K R15, R16 1 A50k VOLUME
1 22k R7
2 2k R3, R13 IC
2 470k R5, R12 Qty Value Parts
1 4k7 R2 1 TLO74 IC3

Capacitors
Diodes
Qty Value Parts Qty Value Parts
3 100n C2, C13, 1 1N5817 D1
C14
1 100p C10
2 10n C8, C9
2 220nf C6, C11
1 2n2 C7
3 47n C1, C4,
C5
1 4n7 C3

Electrolytics Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
1 100u C12
1 22u C15

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Bill of materials – Amp Tone Stack + Gain Recovery
Resistors
Part Value
R1 47k Electrolytics
Capacitors
R2 22k
Part Value
R3 1M
C7 220u
R4 4k7
R5 1k
R6 10k Potentiometers
R7 10k Part Value
BASS A 1M
MID A 25k
Capacitors
PRES B 25k
Part Value
TREBLE B 250k
C1 680p
C2 22n
C3 22n IC
C4 3n3 Part Value
C5 1U IC1 TL062
C6 1u
C8 100n
Diodes
Part Value
D1 1n5817

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Resistors Potentiometers
Qty Value Parts Qty Value Parts
2 10k R6, R7 1 A 1M BASS
1 1M R3 1 A 25k MID
1 1k R5 1 B 250k TREBLE
1 22k R2 1 B 25k PRES
1 47k R1
1 4k7 R4
IC
Qty Value Parts
Capacitors 1 TL062 IC1
Qty Value Parts
1 100n C8
1 1U C5 Diodes
1 1u C6 Qty Value Parts
2 22n C2, C3 1 1n5817 D1
1 3n3 C4
1 680p C1

Electrolytics Capacitors
Qty Value Parts
1 220u C7

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Wiring Diagram
The easiest way to wire this project would be to use a single common input and split the signal in
between all the boards in parallel. Place an individual jack for the output of each board.
You can also use asingle jack for the output with a rotary switch 1p12t to select which EQ is on. We are
planning to include a board to mount this switch on future editions.

This board has been designed to match our EZ 3PDT PCB check it here to access to our Pedal Wiring
Guide

Drill Template
This Project has been planned to fit into a 1790NS enclosure type. All the EQS in one box with the
possibility of trying each of them individually so you can hear what fits the best for your project!

Check the Attached “Drilling templates” to drill the box properly. The files are on Scale 1:1, ready to print
in an A4 page.

Licensing and Usage

We really appreciate your trust and support buying this PCB, as well as your will to dive into the DIY
electronics world. That’s why for us is really important that you can make this project work properly and
to enjoy not only the building process, but also to experiment and play with it on your rig.

We try to reply to every question we receive on our email or in our social media, but we try to encourage
all our customers to join our PCB Guitar Mania – Builders Group on Facebook, in order to post all your
doubts, issues, suggestions or request, as well to share your builds and have some feedback from us
and other fellow builders!

All of our projects have been tested following this same guide on their standard configurations. Although,
not all of the variations and mods have necessarily been tested. These are suggestions based on the
schematic analysis, and on the experiences and opinions of others. Feel free to share with us your
opinions and suggestions regarding the mods your own personal experimentation.

These boards may be used for commercial endeavors in any quantity unless specifically noted. No
attribution is necessary, though accreditation or a link back is always greatly appreciated.

If you are a builder planning to make your own run of pedals we also offer the service of custom made
boards with your brand and logo, design according your specifications.

The only usage restrictions are that, first, you cannot resell the PCB as part of a kit without prior
arrangement with us, and second, you cannot scratch off the silk screen, or other way of trying to hide
our logos and the source of the PCBs. Like it’s written above, if you want to have your own designs, with
your brand and logo we could certainly reach an agreement.

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to stay in tune with the latest projects!

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