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FWIW, comrade @HamishR just posted a vero layout for the HD130 :) https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/music-man-hd-preamp.29410/

I'm quite fond of this preamp, it was one of the first I built on vero 10+y ago. "Don't Fear the Reaper" by BÖC was recorded on one of 'em. Joan Jett, The Clash, what have you... Johnny Winter's settings on the HD amp were: Bass 0, Mids 0, Treble on 10, Gain on 10. Talk about bright. Yet it...

The Musicman HD130 is an SS classic that's fairly easy to build. There was a DIY project for it on the EAE page, if I remember correctly.

Ya still can, schems are available online. I have breadboarded all three, with good results.

FWIW, there are a few commercial amps that feature specific emulations of tube poweramp dynamics: - The Traynor DG60 and DG65 have an LM13600-based compressor with moderate clipping, - The Ampeg SVT-8 pro has a full sag, dynamics and crossover distortion emulator as last stage of the preamp...

It is actually closer to the first version of the Lead 12 (minus diodes). Marshall did several revisions of those circuits and I get the feeling that the official schematics might not be 100% accurate:

I'd also change the 4558 opamp to an LM1458, those little buggers overdrive in a much nicer way :)

Should be fairly easy to turn this into a Marshall 3005 clone, it has the exact same building blocks...

IIRC that kind of contraption is from back when engineers wanted to make sure that an opamp would be able to drive low loads. This can also be found in the Intersound IVP preamp, or some early 80's Fender circuits. You could safely remove the transistor push-pull stage and use any decent opamp...

Right, if I understand your question correctly... The way I see it (and I could definitely be wrong), they basically merged two different stages, a Multiple Feedback Filter, and a simple highpass inverting gain stage. Clever way of saving one half of an opamp by having both frequency manglings...

I'd bet me pinkie that it's simply to compensate for the fact that the whole preamp before it is lacking in lows and quite bright as is. As such, you'd need a nice, hefty bump at 100-120Hz, a scoop across all mid frequencies and just a gentle hump on the higher freqs to more closely resemble a...

On the top circuit: you are missing a resistor to ground at the positive input of the first opamp. Won't work well as is. Bottom circuit: as Scruffie said :D

Peavey Bandit silver stripe, clean channel, bright off. Going into a scavenged and gutted Fender frontman 2x12 open back cab, containing a G12T75 wannabe (EHX's sneaky copy of it) and a WHS greenback wannabe. Tone stack is similar to Bassman, which is to say halfway between a Marshall and DRRI...

Si quieres encontrar a alguien que te haga la faena, te va a salir más a cuenta postear en inglés, amigo... Con la de herramientas en línea que hay para traducir, no debería de suponerte mucho engorro ;)

EXTRA clipping/distortion. More harmonic complexity and compression, etc.