Crimson Nipper Drive

Here comes that word again... 'transparent', but this drive is wonderfully natural sounding so we're not going to apologise.

Lots of drive range covered here, from low gain boost to high gain crunch.

The Bite and Cut tone controls boost the upper mids and cut treble respectively, giving you plenty of control over your frequencies.

We've added an optional switch so you can have a couple of different clipping choices if you like to play around, but you'll have to go about that yourself for now. We simply haven't had the time to experiment with many combinations as yet. We can supply the switch and drill the hole for it, but no extra diodes are supplied.

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: Red Snapper

Difficulty: Medium

PCB size: 50 x 41mm

Knobs required: 4

Enclosure: 1590B

Direct-Connect compatible (4-way)

Download the INSTRUCTION PDF