EHX™ LPB2™ REPLICA RTS PCB

A ready-to-solder PCB for the CB1 (Clean Boost 1), our replica of the Electro-Harmonix™ LPB2™ Linear Power Booster. The same board also builds discrete buffers, a bass booster and a micro mixer.

About the effect

The EHX™ LPB1™ plugged straight into the guitar and the LPB2™ was a stompbox. Otherwise they were the same single-transistor clean boost. The CB1 is a stompbox like the LPB2™. Electro-Harmonix™'s mid-1970s ads said it could make an amp much louder, add sustain and make distortion pedals and wahs sound better, and that two in a row would push the second into overdrive. In a June 1995 Guitar Player stompbox roundup, Art Thompson said the LPB1™ "sounded way badder" than the MXR™ Micro Amp™.

Specs

• PCB dimensions: 4.4cm by 3.3cm
• Solder mask, plated-through holes and silkscreened component placement

Also builds

• Discrete Buffers
• EHX™ Hog's Foot/Mole Bass Booster
• Micro Mixer

Build resources

• Complete instructions for the EHX™ LPB2™ Replica

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