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Les Lius and/or Electra Distortion variants on bass?

deepestend

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Feb 21, 2003
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I'm going to put together an Electra Distortion variant to try on bass. The most popular version of this is the Les Lius. Has anyone tried this on bass yet? Seems simple enough that it should be quite good... have read one positive review hidden somewhere here on TB. Anyone else, though? Waiting for parts...
 
Of course he did :)

Just found his review. SHould have looked there first:
Lovepedal Les Lius: The Les Lius is another take on the Electra Fuzz only with quite a few modifications. It emulates a tweed Deluxe 5E3 circuit, a Tweed Twin, plus has an additonal, more distorted setting. I modified my version a bit further with a high/lo gain switch (so it can get a bit cleaner) as well as added a clean JFet boost on the output to compensate for the lower output level of the hi-distortion setting. It also has two relays for the true bypass and boost footswitches. IMO, this pedal sounds awesome with a bass.The gut shot of this build can be viewed HERE).
 

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