Univox SQ-150 Square Wave
And a little clip with a small cap to tame the squeels and a LPB-1 with a trimmer at the output to fix the level issue. Your browser does not support this audio
Month: January 2013
Jen Fuzz
It seems that not all of the sixties fuzzes were verbatim tonebenders. There’s not that much difference blueprintwise, but still noticeable difference. Some might want to clone this too… Geiri modded his build a bit to get its sound closer to his preferences. Some of you might want to try these mods out as well. … Read more
400th Verified Layout!
Another milestone hit, the 400th verified layout which is really amazing. 300 layouts verified since last March! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to verifications and/or discussions, and to Miro who has really helped me out and is on fire at the moment churning out layouts like a machine. We have so many regular contributors … Read more
Catalinbread Sagrado Poblano Picoso
I did this one ages ago and never posted it for some reason, so I may as well add it now. Info about the original: Ah! the Catalinbread Sagrado Poblano Picoso! The Poblano Picoso has many of the great features as the Super Chili Picoso except that the Poblano is tuned for an extended frequency … Read more
Smooth Fuzz
Request. Info about the original project in Practical Electronics: Of all the effects units for electric guitars, fuzz is undoubtedly the most popular and numerous designs have appeared in Practical Electronics and other magazines over the years. So why yet another fuzz unit? In principle fuzz is easy to produce; all one has to do … Read more
Ibanez PL5 – Powerlead
This is the biggest layout i’ve done to date. And believe me – four transistors and one dual opamp – that’s pretty much all you can fit in there, if you want to squeeze it into 1590B. Anyway. I know that in the first six hours of publishing this there will be at least one … Read more
Allies Fuzz
Last one from Masaru Kubota’s schematics: This fuzz kicks ass. I revamped Roger Mayer’s Axis Fuzz and stuck on a phase stage to make the circuit sound like a tube amp. You probably notice the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face biasing configuration. You can use a regular low-pass RC network, ala the ProCo Rat, to make the circuit … Read more
The Roseyray
From Mark Hammer: Based on the Voodoo Labs Overdrive pedal, this increases the gain and double clips the signal to provide very heavily distorted signal at the output of IC2 and less overdriven signal at the output of IC1. The tone control blends between the two outputs to morph between two very different sounding distortion. … Read more
Runoffgroove Mockman
From ROG: This project has returned from beyond the grave for a tune-up. Compressed, harsh, and ’80s sounding are fitting descriptions of its sonic character. Yes, it is a niche sound which is quite the opposite of some JFET-based distortions developed by the ‘groove, however we feel it is a great time capsule of an … Read more
Bearhug FET Compressor
Jon Patton’s Bearhug FET Compressor (Yeah! That’s the same cool dude who demoed Valvewizard’s Engineer’s Thumb a while back!) As requested. From Jon: The Bearhug is a (fairly) low-parts-count, quiet, tonally transparent compressor using only transistors. It can do subtle peak limiting or squishy sustaining, with a decent amount of boost (probably ~6-12db). Notes & … Read more