Moonlight tone control--1 knob, looks cool!

[Ed G.]

http://amps.zugster.net/articles/tonestacks/#Overview

Looks like this could be a promising alternative to the princeton one-knob control. Volume and tone are said to be more independent, and the control said to be less bright. It's worth a look, anyway.

[Ansil]

i like that its pretty interesting thanks for the link ed i always say two eds are better than one.

[Doug H]

Ed, I tried the moonlight tone control on the breadboard once with some pedal I was working on and I liked it a lot. IIRC, it definitely had potential for being a  really useable one-knob tone control. The thing I remember about it is that it never got horribly bright or too thin sounding. It had a very useable range.

Doug

[csj]

I could never get this tone control wiring to work in this amp.
I ended up leaving it connected to the circuit but attached on the inside of the chassis out of the way. Mine is simply a one vol knob version. Any tone setting had no affect on the sound.

I'll have to take a look at it again.
I had a few other issues when building it but I can't remember what they were offhand. I'll check my notes.

Good sounding amp though.
Chunky and fat.

[RDV]

I could never get this tone control wiring to work in this amp. Good sounding amp though. Chunky and fat.

Uhh...which amp?

RDV

[csj]

The tone stack came from an amp circuit designed by S. Delft.
The amp was called the "Moonlight".
Very cool low wattage amp with an out of the ordinary tube complement.
The preamp was an EF184 (pentode, as I remember) which fed a splitter/diff amp 6SL7 dual triode into a another dual triode 6SN7 as the push/pull power side. Very simple and effective design.

When I paired the amp with a Celestion Blue it was dubbed "Billy in a box" by several of my friends because it sounded so warm and fat ala Gibbons.
Not really good on clean...not bad, just better at smooth distortion with the ability to use pinch harmonics all over the neck.