Fender Stage Lead - Drive preset

Verified · 85/100 confidence. Complete schematic. All component values readable. Parameters derived directly from the circuit.

The Stage Lead is an early-1980s solid-state Fender combo with an op-amp preamp and two footswitchable channels. Channel 1 is the clean side, with Volume, Treble, Bass and Mid. Channel 2 adds a Gain control and diode clipping for overdrive, with its own Volume, Bass, Mid, Treble and a Master. Spring reverb and preamp out/power amp in jacks feed a discrete transistor power amp. It was a loud, maintenance-free stage amp of Fender's CBS years.

Tags: solid-state, two-channel, reverb, clean, crunch.

Schematic-derived preset files for 16 Fractal and Line 6 modelers: Axe-Fx II/XL/XL+, Axe-Fx III, FM3, FM9, and the full Helix family (Floor, LT, Rack, HX Stomp, HX Stomp XL, Native).

Gridleak extracts amp parameters from original circuit schematics using AI vision — component values, gain staging, tone stack topology, tube types — then generates native preset files for every supported modeler. Every extraction is scored 0–100 and the score is published.