Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
From UnofficialAmpeg.com: During MTI’s ownership of Ampeg, everything was being built in Japan. Ampeg’s most extensive line of pedals is no exception. In production during 1982 and 1983, the “A” series effects were housed in black steel boxes with brightly colored graphics in pinks, oranges, blues, yellows, etc., and included nine pedals and a … Read more
Been waiting a long time to post this one up. Yup. It is 1:1 with Rocktek DIR-01 Distortion. The schematic i found was missing a couple of values, so instead of guessing i got myself an original and checked them. My original just happens to be this beautiful japanese plastic thing. It doesn’t quite reach … Read more
A nice simple reverb project that a few people have asked for, with this layout based around the BTDR-2H brick. The short description from the GGG website: This is a great sounding digital reverb project. Based on the Belton Digital Reverb Brick. This really is an excellent reverb and is also the base of some … Read more
The circuit is exactly the same in Electro Harmonix Axis fuzz and Guild’s 2-knobbed Foxey Lady. 2N5133 may and will be very hard and expensive to source, so i’d suggest trying out any low hFE NPN Si transistors. Or go wild and try on anything you like. The cap values of 50µ and 4µ is … Read more
Old Yerasov Gamma series distortion. Box totally looks like a Boss rip off, but the insides are not.
Don’t bother asking for a schematic. One doesn’t exist. This layout is based on FSB thread on the subject…. (yes, you’ll need to log in to see it) — The thread at FSB got wind under its wings after this layout, so the questionable values are finally confirmed. Here’s the final layout with updated values … Read more
As requested. I happen to have an original unit in metal enclosure, and to my ears this is definitely one of the greatest Ibanez overdrives. This layout is with your standard transistor pinout and with input buffer omitted. Reason for omitting the buffer is quite obvious… It is big, but should fit in B-box without … Read more
There you go John. We’ll never have enough bass designs… This one is basically a Rat for bass. Thanks to John, this one is now verified. Which also means that the LM7 and FC10 should be safe to build.
Ok. As the original layout for this circuit was originally drawn from a bad schematic and altered later, i thought it would be a good idea to redraw this from a trusted (Dirk Hendrik’s) schematic with original buffering in tact. I also removed the old one from the archives… As this Rat adaptation shares the … Read more
