Large Marge - Inspired by Lovetone Big Cheese

This is an exact copy of the Lovetone big cheese with one modification. There is an added boost stage at the end to increase overall output volume.

The Big Cheese is a hybrid of several different circuit topologies. An op-amp provides input buffering and output gain recovery, and a silicon transistor fuzz resembling a Fuzz Face or Tone Bender is sandwiched in the middle. This is followed by diode hard clipping and a Big Muff-style tone control.

In traditional Lovetone fashion, the Big Cheese also has a rotary control, allowing three different tone stack modes: tone bypass, scooped mids, and flat mids. There is also a fourth mode called “Cheese” that changes the bias on the transistor fuzz, delivering gated “amp death” tones similar to other circuits that use intentional misbiasing such as the Zvex Fuzz Factory or Cornish NG-3. The result is in a class of its own, an extremely versatile and unique drive machine that is deserving of the high praise it receives.

Brown Bear Effects is not affiliated with Lovetone.