Gold Drive

Fairly obscure and scarce one here. Now out of production, and it only had a short lifespan while it was around. Shame, as it really does tick a lot of boxes.

Described by the designer, quite rightly in our opinion, as Blues Breaker-ish. Imagine that BB has had an apprenticeship at tone central and has emerged all grown up. This has all the fun of a BB with more gain on tap, better tone control and an overall more 'finished' feel to it. It's ditched the baggy jeans and put on a suit.

If you're looking for a drive with amp-like response and oodles of feel, here you go.

Requires a tiddly hack so minor we decided to live with it rather than waste the PCBs. See build doc.

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: Orro

Difficulty: Easy

PCB size: 50 x 43mm

Knobs required: 3

Enclosure: 1590B

Direct Connect compatible (4 way)

Download INSTRUCTION PDF