in my teen years i used to have a reverb rocket and a LPB1 power booster . man it would make that amp sing. they were about 12 bucks.anybody got tne plans to build one? wasnt much to them. a transistorand a couple of chiclets(caps) kind of like what they used to put in the real BC rich guitars

General Guitar Gadgets Has plans w/ all the info You need. He even has a pbc for $8.00. There's also some good links to other effects web sites.
Good luck! Guittguy1

ill check it out

JD Sleep made me a TB lpb-2 version. It is pictured on the generalguitargadget.com site as a " fat blaster"

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Lawrence D.

The LPB1 didn't even use a circuit board, the components were just soldered together between the jacks. If you look in an electronics book for Common Emitter Follower Amplifier, a schematic almost identical to the LPB will be shown. The LPB and Screaming Bird/Tree treble boosters were also the same circuit just with different capacitor values.



Daniel

I'm not sure if it's common knowledge, but several of the booteek boosters that people salivate over are actually LPB's with tweeked component values.

I had the LPB1, the "Screaming Tree" treble booster and the "Mole" bass booster when I was 13, I think I paid about $14 each out of a catalog called Music Emporium in the late 70's.

There is a popular pedal mod site that has many of those old scematics as share files. I used to have it stored in my favorite places but I cannot find it now (sorry). The site is very popular with the Keely and Analogman crowd. Lots of people who are far more talented than I with a soldering iron.

I still have an original LPB1 Power Booster. I bought it when it was brand new back in the dark ages (late '60's/early '70's?). I hated it because it had to be turned on 'by hand'.

It boosted the signal for a fairly 'clean' boost, if I remember correctly.


I actually found mine a couple of years ago when I was rummaging through some drawers in my garage. I guess it had been in those drawers for most of its life. It's now back in the closet in my music room. I should put a battery in it and try it out again, just for kicks.
Mesadude
Tung 'n' Gruve

Back in high school, a guy I knew bought an Acoustic 360 bottom, just the bottom, which was an 18" folded horn with a power amp built into the cab. He didn't know what to do for a preamp, so I told him go get an LPB-1. He did, and played it like that for quite awhile.

Yeah! I had an LPB-1 back in the old days. I've still got a Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer compressor in my drawer in peices that I really liked. Hmmm,...I think I'll put that thing back together!

I have an old LPB2 that I got on eBay a few years back. I used it twice, then got a Fat Boost and it took over the space on the pedalboard where the LPB2 once sat. It's a nice little pedal, but not so great for my application.

If anybody out there has a desire to own this pedal, I'll let it go cheap because it's just collecting dust right now.