Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This is the original Cook Spring Reverb design and not the “mark 2”. Any spring reverb tank should do just fine… So strike the above text. The tank type is crucial to get this design to work properly. I have no no idea what sort of tank it should be, so even though this is … Read more
Description from the General Guitar Gadgets site: Brown Sound In A Box version 2 (BSIAB2) is an excellent distortion pedal designed by Ed Guidry. Based on the AMZ MiniBooster cascading work done by Jack Orman and further refined by Aron Nelson and Doug Hammond. This is one of the best heavy Marshall-type distortion boxes that … Read more
Phew. This board almost made me crazy. There is “only” 28 cuts and 11 links, but i got down to only one resistor over one strip. This one is quite interesting. CMOS Hex inverter based BMP adaptation. A word about the circuit from ROG: This circuit was born with the idea of making a CMOS … Read more
Info from Runoffgroove about the project: Around 1965, Marshall introduced a few amps built around an 18 Watt EL84 powered circuit. While these models were intended for practice, the sound was much better than other small amps. Unfortunately, only a few hundred of these combos were manufactured over the next three years. These rare amps … Read more
A few of you were looking for good fuzz circuits…. Gus Smalley modded the circuit from Aron. Aron modded it from tonebender. Both made enhancements and mods along the way. Or so the internet tells me. Anyway. It’s supposed to be a silicon adaptation of the classic. It says 2N5089 on the schematic, but i … Read more
Requested by a few people, this is the pre-amp section of the rack mounted Korg SDD-3000 digital delay. One for the U2 fans who want to try to get a bit closer to The Edge’s tone. This one based on Analogguru’s schematic with a simplified 9V supply.
This one is definitely verified, but: The LFO section is *very* sensitive to both voltage and current, so if your board doesn’t fire up right away (which happened with my second build too), you should consider doing a little daughterboard with 9V regulator, 8V2 zener and a 10-50 trimmer to get the LFO going. That … Read more
Straight from the music forum equivalent of the Freemasons, without the funny handshake but your membership can be black-balled. The original has a trimmer for gain but I have put this as an external pot for my own personal preference in muff-like pedals. If you’d prefer to keep it authentic then remove the wires and … Read more
Argh. I just hate it when i draw a layout and when i’m posting it, i can’t find anything but just a few photos of the original unit – No ad texts, no original ads no nothing. Just a few images from google image search and one youtube clip from different design by the same … Read more
Info from Boss: The OD-1 is by now legendary. Artist of the 70’s was mostly using a fuzz distortion sound and the overdrive produced by the OD-1 was not typical. It was however soon accepted as the new standard of guitar sound. The OD-1 features an asymmetric circuit where the positive and negative halves of … Read more