Merry Christmas
All the very best to everyone and hope you have a fantastic Christmas. I think Miro and myself will probably be too drunk to post much for the next few days, so if we don’t make it, see you all in the new year :o)
Month: December 2012
Fuzzhugger Groundswell Overdrive
Happy Christmas everybody! Info about the original: The Groundswell full overdrive with a natural response to picking intensity. It features two transistor based gain stages, so it doesn’t have that artificial over-clipped sound like many “overdrive pedals” out there. No compression, just gain and drive! Dual gain stages and a voltage reducer that alters total … Read more
DOD 280 Compressor
Here we go with another classic optical compressor. Original unit uses VTL5C2, so could get away with using any LDR with 1M dark resistance. So the LDR resistor would be resistor leads of VTL5C2 and that green LED acts as LED leads of the vactrol. Positive/anode to strip four and negative/cathode to strip one. Haven’t … Read more
Digitech Bad Monkey – Bufferless
Updated 21st January 2013 The Bad Monkey is a very popular low cost pedal which most people have assumed to be a simple Tubescreamer clone but is a little bit more than just a verbatim TS808. It actually bears a lot more resemblance to the DOD Juice Box which is handy because the person who … Read more
Runoffgroove Tonemender
From ROG:The Tonemender is a very flexible, yet simple clean boost with a 3-knob tonestack that allows the user to re-create the classic Fender, Marshall and Vox responses. We suggest using a TLC2272 for the dual op-amp. The TLC2272 is rated for low-noise and rail-to-rail output, which will offer the highest possible clean boost and … Read more
Boss FA-1 FET Preamp
Well it’s the 21st here so I’m getting this one in early in case the world ends soon so we can get it verified first. :o) Another must try for fans of U2 and The Edge and another one of the boost pedals in his arsenal. Info from Boss about the long discontinued original: The … Read more
Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster
Info from SD’s site: application The first effects pedal designed specifically to work together with the pickups in a guitar to achieve optimum gain and resonance for all tonal applications. Works with all musical styles. description By turning the gain control knob you can add pure, flat-EQ gain, ranging from 6dB to 25dB! The Resonance … Read more
Son of Clay Jones Overdrive
Moving on from my last post, here the Clay Jones Overdrive gets the Lovepedal Eternity treatment by Fred Briggs. Fred has essentially done what Jack Orman did with the Tubescreamer when he published the Son of Screamer schematic, which was adopted pretty much verbatim by Lovepedal for their Eternity, and no doubt a good few … Read more
Orpheum Fuzz
How come i can never seem to find any good info about these circuits 😐 Anyway. Here’s another 60’s “classic”. Ugly and mean. Simple, yet effective. Added both versions; Silicon and Germanium. Please take note that the Ge version is positive ground with PNP germanium transistors, while the Si version is NPN with negative ground.
Clay Jones Overdrive
One of the most sought after limited run boutique pedals ever, with them going for over $1500 on eBay, and surprise surprise ….. it was a Tubescreamer that had TGP creaming themselves. Nothing new there then.