FS/FT DIY pedals- Lab Series L4 preamp (Pearce BC1 lineage) £95 posted ** Fairfield Shallow water clone £160 posted ** £762 Leeds/Bradford

[LukeFRC]

I have a small board and don't like clutter... so here's everything not on the board and up for sale or trade... 
There's one (well two) proper good pedals - priced at whatever they seem to be going for at the moment...

There's a handful of things I've built myself, priced about the same as the kit to build them would cost. 

There's a broken/bust pedal, and a cheapo which if you're buying anything else and want it I can chuck it in....

Full detail in later posts

Prices including postage.... 

 

 

 

 

Lab Series (Moog) L4 two channel preamp (Aion L4)  -  £120 110  99 95

 

PedalPCB Low Tide (similar to Fairfield Shallow Water) - £180 160

 

Futuristic Retro Champion, Mutron clone (Aion Lumitron) with mods - £65 60 55

Broken MXR Bass octave deluxe £10* (or £4 with another pedal)

 

Eventide H9 Max  - £330  299 280

Irn Bru PedalPCB Chop Shop (similar to Fairfield Barbershop) - £42

 

For Sale

Or trade…

Try me with ideas for trades, I’ve got a lot of thing things that I want/need but….
Things that have caught my eye recently…
Creation Grizzly Bass
Hamstead Subspace and Redwing 
Chase Bliss Onward

Source Audio Artifakt

Broughton HPF or Buffer
Fender Japan sunburst 57ri serial R003045
 

 

 

 

Edited November 11, 2025 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

 

 

 

Futuristic Retro Champion, Mutron clone (Aion Lumitron) with mods

It’s a mutron, built on Aion FX’s Lumitron boards. It does what a mutron should.

The Mods are a decay control, so you can get a really slow release, or with HP filter going down, a slow attack style effect, it’s linked to the gain so they are quite interactive. And then the “Moog mod” which basically means the filter is effected slightly differently as you go down the fretboard. It’s subtle.

I built it and erm didn’t like it. Loaned it to @ped and @Quatschmacher who said it worked and it was actually just I didn’t like a Mutron style envelope filter! It’s a decent filter but not the best.

Priced at cost of kit and knobs and postage.

 

 

Edited October 4, 2025 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

Lab Series (Moog) L4 two channel preamp (Aion L4)

This is Aion FX version of the Lab Series L4 preamp - it’s got two channels, one like a fender tone stack, and one more ampeg style with a swept mid. That then goes into a saturation engine, the master output and a really musical limiter. It can put out a lot of signal.
The green channel is very very similar to the Pearce preamps - and lending it to Ant he got to compare it to his Pearce and Suncoast preamps. Neither of us were going for the Sheehan thing though.

Negatives, it’s fiddly to balance the channels if you want clean and dirty (though possible if you bounce it into the limiter) and if you use it in a studio full range I “think” I might hear the led switching noise in the noise floor. Live you won’t hear that.

Negatives out the way - Why should you care? The L5 guitar amp was considered one of the closest solid state electronics got to the sound of a valve amp - and it’s an amazing amp style saturation thing, I think it does odd and even harmonic clipping or something and it’s the closest I’ve heard in an analogue pedal to that detailed warm model/captured valve amp in the Helix/Kemper/Anagram/QC whatever. It just sounds good.
The price is again cost of kit and knobs and postage to you - if you look at the build docs you’ll see how much soldering there was to put it all together.

I’m selling it because the HX stomp replaced it for me.

 

 

PedalPCB Low Tide (similar to Fairfield Shallow Water)

This is a genius pedal in a 125B enclosure. Lofi modulator, envelope, random vibrato/chorus. Sounds amazing before drive, or end of chain. Watch the video that Zach Rizer made.

This is priced… well higher than just the kit as I don’t really massively want to sell it - but it’s not getting used. I would say - it sounds ok with bass (but is very subtle) but stick something like synth/keys into it and it’s magical and analogue and warm and lovely. 

 

 

Edited October 4, 2025 by LukeFRC

[Quatschmacher]

Wonder if the BOD sensitivity is the same issue as with their initial VBO run - really chattery. They fixed it by adding a resistor at the input somewhere. 

[LukeFRC]

Was making a sound clip of the filter for someone and realised I've actually got a sound clip of the L4....

 

 

Clean...

 L4 preamp green side 

 

 

 

Edited June 7, 2025 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

or with cab sim....

clean ....

 

[LukeFRC]

Price drop on the H9 as I think I overpriced it - £330 including postage (UK)

[Quatschmacher]

On 05/06/2025 at 20:20, LukeFRC said:

Fender Japan sunburst 57ri serial R003045

That’s very specific! I presume one you used to own. 

[LukeFRC]

59 minutes ago, Quatschmacher said:

That’s very specific! I presume one you used to own. 

Yep. Sold it to a guy from Dundee. Ild fitted a gold annodised guard. It was good 

[AndyTravis]

Wish I’d known Irn Bru was for sale 😐

[LukeFRC]

Price drops on things - would quite like to sell the H9 

Edited June 17, 2025 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

"I need a brand new high end multi-fx" you're thinking reading this,

or maybe a new preamp that gives you a fatter and more complex drive sound...

 

don't let me stop you!

[LukeFRC]

(oh and Offers on the H9, secondhand prices are all over the shop so it might still be a bit high) 

[LukeFRC]

buuummp

[LukeFRC]

H9 sold

 

try me with offers on the DIY stuff! 

Edited June 29, 2025 by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

Tidied up thread to just show the three available - will take offers and trades - try me 

[LukeFRC]

Price drop again! 

Including postage. 

[silverfoxnik]

Hi Luke, 

 

I'm interested in the Mutron clone.. 

 

Do you have any sound clips at all? 

 

Cheers 

 

Nik 

[LukeFRC]

Mutron clone sold

[LukeFRC]

Last two things available:
 

Aion Lab Series  L4 £95 posted

Fairfield Shallow Water clone in 125b £160 posted

 

some wee pricedrops there -wasn't really intending to drop the price on the Shallow Water clone as I like it a lot - I dunno if I updated the decription but it's not got a nice DC jack on it at the right size (!) and I rebaised the bucket brigade chip so it sounds lovely.