Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info from Demeter about the original: “The Compulator was born after I solved an engineering problem of biasing an optical unit with only a single 9V battery. I had always loved the sound of optical compressors and designed and manufactured tube units in the pro audio market for a number of years. I wanted to … Read more
This is a modded version of the Sky Blue Overdrive, with a Tone control added, Texture control changed from an unnecessary dual to standard single 1K linear pot, and changes to the Z control to make it more useful. 1590B friendly if you can squeeze 5 pots in there. Info about the original: BJF design … Read more
So, I finished building the prototype “Vintage Boosters” I designed – The “Face” (Fender inspired), “E11even” (Marshall inspired) and the “’64 Vintage” (Vox inspired). I designed them as three separate units that could be used individually to create tones which have a definite character of the amp they take inspiration from but I also paid a huge amount of … Read more
Two modded versions of this pedal, both based on Madbean’s Uproar. The first is essentially the Uproar V2 with all the mods, but with the original Riot’s clipping options using a SP3T switch. The second is a modification to Madbean’s layout done by jymaze at freestompboxes, but again with the original Riot’s diode options. I … Read more
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost … Read more
Great sounding pedal designed to emlulate a HiWatt amp, and so one for you Who fans out there. Again this was an awkward one to keep the width down, but it will fit nicely in a 1590B. Video of Geiri’s build of this layout: Update (23rd March 2012): Missed cut, use this latest layout
A week ago or so, I finished building a Honeybee clone. I went with the madbean pcb (discontinued) and bearfoot version of the circuit. The enclosure is a brush-painted Eddystone in gold/apricot with a adhesive decal and clearcoat on top. Here is a photo after the box was clearcoated. The decal was made full size including the knob, led, and … Read more
Another request. This was a bit of a pain to make 1590B friendly, especially with my aversion to standing resistors, but I just about managed it. Had to do a couple of things I don’t like to do, like the grey external link and the angled component avoiding link (make sure that one is insulated), … Read more