Citric Magic

No lemons here - this is a wonderful little aid to tweaking your tone to perfection.

Boost and Tone controls do what you'd expect, giving you a light volume lift through to full overdrive breakup along with frequency filtering to tame the highs if necessary.

Then you have three toggles to play with. Voice alters the output frequency range. Cut plays with the frequencies at the input, altering levels and top end before hitting the gain stages. The Boost switch flips between treble, clean or full throated boost modes.

All in all there's enough to fiddle with to match any guitar and setup. A Swiss army knife of punch.

We have a limited supply of through-hole FETs for this one, but SMT parts are available for less outlay if you can handle the tiny bits.

The kit is supplied with vertical-mount pots which have round shafts, so you'll need set-screw fitting knobs.

If you want the PCB without parts there's a link for that at the bottom of the page.

Partial kit: PCB, all board-mounted components, pots.

Full kit: As above, plus footswitch and appropriate daughterboard/components for your selected bypass type (see Downloads section for details of those), jack sockets, DC socket, battery snap, hook-up wire, LED.

Enclosure (pre-drilled) is available as an option with full kits, and will not take a battery. Knobs are not included.

Builds are only available with full kits including enclosures. Please choose appropriate knobs.

Inspired by: Rockett Lemon Aid

Difficulty: Easy

PCB size: 30 x 45mm

Knobs required: 2

Enclosure: 1590B

Direct Connect compatible (4-way)

Download the INSTRUCTION PDF