Thunder Lead

Introduction

You love that massive British Rock´n´Roll tone, but are tired that there are almost all related to the Plexi? Here is something for you. Run-off-Groove´s Thor is a take on the Marshall Super Lead ™. They replaced the Tubes with jets and tweaked it till they got it right. They even came up with a solution for the problem that this kind of circuits usually tempt to have to much gain compared to the original. Btw, the documents on their Page goes deeper in this circuit if you want to know more about the theory behind how this circuit has designed.

Back to the sound and what you can expect from it. ROG is known for their amazing sounding takes on existing designs. So what we did is I pretty much 1 to 1 copy of it but with the major benefits that you do not have to deal with tagboard to make one.

Sound wise I was pretty surprised that this circuit isn’t done many more times. It Rocks way more then you need for your rhythm playing, if gives you creamy leads you know from your favorite records from the 80s with pretty authentic tube triode like response. Also the two toggles for brightness and low end adjustment make way more sense than one would expect from just the flip of a switch. I really enjoyed playing with this little and easy to build project.

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Controls

• Gain
• Level
• Bright switch
• Bottom Switch

Thunderlead Building docs

Thunder lead – Drilling template