Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Request. This is just to add the requested Black Arts Toneworks Ritual Fuzz to the library, but i just couldn’t resist rewriting Dr. Tony Balls’ “Universal One-Knob Silicon Fuzz Layout” and adding the Black Arts’ version of this classic to it. So here are 5 currently known adaptations of the almighty 1-Knobber. Adventurous minds could … Read more
Ken Fischer with his Trainwreck amps If you’re interested in guitar amplifiers and haven’t heard of Trainwreck amps then you must be stuck on a desert island. Known for their no frills design, great clean shimmer and screaming lead tones Trainwreck amplifiers were hand made in the 80s and through the 90s by the late … Read more
Requested by Javi …. haha I don’t think I’m going to find any marketing guff so here is what Wikipedia says about it: The effect was used by Jimi Hendrix, and can be heard in guitar solos on the song “Purple Haze”. Hendrix preferred to call the device the “Octavio”, and it is often referred … Read more
It’s a modded Vox Repeat Percussion so more use for those 2N2646’s you stocked up on. Info about the original: The Hummingbird is, at heart, a hard and choppy tremolo. What comes out is more akin to vintage synth style oscillations. It’s core is based on the old Vox Repeat Percussion with several updates to … Read more
I do find these small boards less stressful to draw 🙂 This one is small enough to fit in 1590A without any problems, but if you’re feeling adventurous you can shave off one row from the right hand side. I left there a bit space so 100µ caps have more room to sit in nicely… … Read more
Couple of small circuits to keep you occupied on this sunday.. 🙂 This one’s yet another Fuzz Face, but both boxes using the circuit are quite cool things..
The circuit for these two are verbatim. Escobedo just has a trimmer to bias the JFET, where JHS has 5K1 resistor. He probably uses matched j201s… JHS info: A good booster is often the most underrated tool a guitarist can own. When placed before your overdrives or distortions, a thicker, stronger and more saturated tone … Read more
I didn’t think it would end up too big, so I thought I’d jump straight in at the deep end and do a modified version with additional 9V/18V switching and the components switching done with individual toggles rather than a single 4PDT switch, which allows you to turn the selections on and off independently. If … Read more
I’ve just done this as an experiment but thought I may as well share it here in case anyone else is interested. I bought a few different SMD component kits a while back and wondered how easily they can be used with vero. I think it will be a nightmare for bigger circuits because you’re … Read more
