Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info about the original: The Animal is our creating of a 1968 Plexi Sound. The Animal is an extremely open and amp like sound that can get you from a stock plexi to a modified plexi with the flick of the snarl switch. The Animal can get very aggressive but it is by no means … Read more
I think we’ve done all the Ibanez Tubescreamers now 😛 This one is a mix between TS10 and TS808 with slightly bigger cap for fatter bass responce. There was an issue with the output buffer’s vref connection, but that’s fixed now…
Very close to STL Super Tube. Clipping amp and mids boost section are in different order, plus some slight changes to the buffers.
Simple one transistor wah with even simpler volume pedal wiring. Assuming you have wah enclosures to spare.
After the heads up from Miro, here’s the sites 200th fuzz layout! :o) The original has a 5K trimmer in between Texture 1 & 2 and the collector of Q3 which I have omitted to keep this 1590B friendly in terms of number of columns. I think a trimmer there is largely unnecessary as it … Read more
200th Overdrive layout! I seem to be on the streak with Tubescreamers. This one also marks a special moment. In addition to this being 200th OD layout, i finally deciphered the original schematic which is very annoying to read (all 7-series schematics are). This one is also our first layout for the this series of … Read more
This puppy is basically another TS9, but it has clipping and gain options on “mode” switch. Modes are TS9, +, Hot and Turbo. Latter one acts as a diode lift, but adds a lot of gain. The switch is 2P4T rotary. Original unit has 250K dual gang pot for gain, and for some reason it … Read more
Hehee! Couldn’t help myself. It is in reality a TS9 🙂 If you want it 1:1, then use TA75558 and 2SC1815 transistors (mind the pinout!). You could of course build it with JRC4558D and check the output resistors to make it 808.. I still thought we needed at least one more Soundtank to our library. … Read more
This one’s for those who had trouble with the Ge layouts. It adds Orman’s and Tremblay’s mods to the classic and it is supposed to sound like the real thing. If you want, you could swap the 5K6 resistor for 10 trimmer or even take it off board to act as a bias control. Transistors … Read more
Really useful mods for the all-time classic, the Tone Bender MKII Professional. Mods add more volume and a trimmer for accurate biasing the germs among other things… From Fuzzcentral: Here is my modified version of the ToneBender MKII Professional, the MindBender. I decided to use NPN Germanium transistors for mine so that I’ll be able … Read more