R2R Electric Pre-Amp Germanium Boost
R2R Electric are on another level when it comes to boutique pedal building! Using the most sought after parts, hand building and making incredible recreations of classic effects.
Built with a combination of recycled vintage components and new old stock parts from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. Each part is carefully tested and matched to the individual pedal as it is built. Because each component is hand selected and tested it means every unit is unique, while still maintaining R2R's signature tones!
This germanium Pre-Amp boost is a reproduction of a rare 1950's Hofner Preamp unit. It was designed to be used in the auxiliary input of the typical 1950's home's stereo hifi console or tape recorder (all which would be vacuum tube based) and allow a guitar to be plugged in and amplified. Effectively making your home radio into a guitar amplifier. The only modifications to the circuit are a volume control and to remove the shock protection capacitor. That capacitor was in place to eliminate the possibility of being shocked by a "hot chassis" radio. In pedal form it is not needed, so we bypassed that section. the Volume control allows you to dial in the amount of boost this circuit provides.
As a pedal this circuit is a fantastic clean or dirty boost. Into a clean amp and lower volumes, it is a germanium loud button! It just takes your signal and makes it quite a bit louder and sweeter. Into a dirty amp, it pushes the signal into further overdrive. With the volume control ay max into a dirty amp, it sounds like a vintage tweed amp on the verge of imploding into itself.
Each Pre-Amp features
Point-to-point thru-hole construction
Vintage OC59 or OC79 transistor
Vintage CTS, Stackpole, Clarostat potentiometer
NOS Philips electrolytic capacitors
1960's Wima TFF capacitor
NOS Allen-Bradley carbon comp resistors
Housed in a hammertone gray 125b enclosure with Fairchild reproduction knob and dial plate
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R2R Electric are on another level when it comes to boutique pedal building! Using the most sought after parts, hand building and making incredible recreations of classic effects.
Built with a combination of recycled vintage components and new old stock parts from the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. Each part is carefully tested and matched to the individual pedal as it is built. Because each component is hand selected and tested it means every unit is unique, while still maintaining R2R's signature tones!
This germanium Pre-Amp boost is a reproduction of a rare 1950's Hofner Preamp unit. It was designed to be used in the auxiliary input of the typical 1950's home's stereo hifi console or tape recorder (all which would be vacuum tube based) and allow a guitar to be plugged in and amplified. Effectively making your home radio into a guitar amplifier. The only modifications to the circuit are a volume control and to remove the shock protection capacitor. That capacitor was in place to eliminate the possibility of being shocked by a "hot chassis" radio. In pedal form it is not needed, so we bypassed that section. the Volume control allows you to dial in the amount of boost this circuit provides.
As a pedal this circuit is a fantastic clean or dirty boost. Into a clean amp and lower volumes, it is a germanium loud button! It just takes your signal and makes it quite a bit louder and sweeter. Into a dirty amp, it pushes the signal into further overdrive. With the volume control ay max into a dirty amp, it sounds like a vintage tweed amp on the verge of imploding into itself.
Each Pre-Amp features
Point-to-point thru-hole construction
Vintage OC59 or OC79 transistor
Vintage CTS, Stackpole, Clarostat potentiometer
NOS Philips electrolytic capacitors
1960's Wima TFF capacitor
NOS Allen-Bradley carbon comp resistors
Housed in a hammertone gray 125b enclosure with Fairchild reproduction knob and dial plate
