Black Sun of Doom SMD

About The Pedal Creators

Everyone can build excellent boutique guitar pedals. Everything we do is to make that experience more accessible and user-friendlier. The Pedal Creators series are the best and easiest to build PCBs ever. Including most resistors and capacitors already soldered on board as SMD components, leaving the key values for you to experiment and craft your own tone. Now you can build a pedal you are proud of in less than an hour without any previous experience. What are you waiting for to become a Pedal Creator?

The Pedal creators – key features:

• Easy to build, no previous experience required. It’s like Lego for musicians.
• Fast assembly finishes a pedal in less than an hour. Play your favorite record and enjoy the ride along.
• 100% mistake-proof. Even my grandma can build one while she cooks.
• Build your own boutique pedal. Experiment with different values and make the pedal you always dreamed of.
• Easy to scale. Turn your passion into a money-making machine.

Introduction

Sunn amps are some of the most regarded in the guitarist community due to their huge thick sound, deep bass, and loudness. Every Stoner rocker dream!

However, these amplifiers can get pretty rare and expensive to purchase, often going for price tags above $3000. Even the 2008 Fender reissue can be quite hard to find.

The Sunn tone demand increased incredibly fast through the years due to the hype generated online, with many pedals claiming to nail its tone. Maybe the most popular being EQD Acapulco Gold, which delivers quite good tones but is not even close to the Sunn Model T.

Meanwhile, in France, Coda effects developed the Black Hole, following the Sunn Model T’s original schematic, replacing the tubes for JFETS and making some other adjustments to squeeze more gain out of it we did with our Lemon Rockverb.

After being blown away by the Black Hole’s tone, I started asking myself, ‘ How can we make this even better?’ So, I started experimenting with the EQ section, which is most often the weakest point of the JFET preamps in a box.

I wanted to try some of the EQs sections we have seen in other modern amps in a box, just like our Active EQ or Hybrid EQ, both from Freeman BEOD or the Revvolution series, respectively. Finally, choosing Benzin EQ as the winner. Keeping the traditional structure of an amp alike tone stack while adding a Depth control to make your bass growl and a presence knob to make sure you’ll cut through the mixes, as a cherry on the top, we have a recovery gain stage after the tone stack, making sure this beast will tear your house down.

Controls

• Bass
• Boost
• Bright
• Deep
• Mids
• Normal
• Pres
• Treble
• Vol1

For any technical questions regarding this build don’t forget to check out our Facebook Group and our forum at Free Stomp Boxes.

Black Sun of Doom SMD – Building Docs

Black Sun of Doom SMD – Drilling template