Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Another interesting and simple design from The Tone God archives. Should make a nice quick project to build. From the Tone God’s site: A simple ten part non-selective frequency tripler. It creates octave-like sounds on lower settings and on higher settings generates a metallic swell effect through out the decay of the note(s). It is … Read more
With 4 internal trimmers this was a pain to keep 1590B friendly. As it sits it’s 22 columns wide and so will just fit in if you file the sides down a bit (and insulate the side of the box next to the board with electrician tape or similar to avoid shorts). It will however … Read more
I did this a while ago but when I was searching for it last night I could only find a tag version, so I want this in its own post to direct people to when they want true bypass and LED indication with a DPDT stomp. This also works fine with a 2N7000 mosfet but … Read more
..and i’m back. Been a one hell of a month with kazillion things going on… Here’s something quite cool i ran into. Haven’t had time to build it yet myself, but it is quite high on the priority list. According to the information provided with the schematic (here), this seems like a highly tweakable crossover … Read more
Request. This layout adds a Timmy type bass control to the TS808 (but with the lugs swapped round so bass increases as you turn clockwise) . I could have just added this to the existing TS808 post but think it’s worth separating them to show two distinct build options. I managed to shift things around … Read more
On a roll now :o) Info from the manufacture about his original Jerkulator copy: Short for Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise. The THD+N is a Lo-Fi Fuzz with with Harmonic Distortion measurement is excess of 80% which are sweepable between even order and odd order harmonic distortion.
I think we’ve seen this somewhere before. Many times. Info from the manufacturer about their original: SNOWJOB, a dual mode underdrive, what the hell is an underdrive you ask, hold on, we will explain. An underdrive is similar in function to an overdrive, except instead of driving the amp it drives from the guitar, adding … Read more
Request, with thanks for forum member ‘doomidrive’ (just to confuse matters :o) for the pictures and information to allow us to do the trace. A popular effects used by Hendrix and Page amongst others, here’s the short but sweet overview: A faithful reproduction of the vintage Univox Uni-Drive circuit with original NOS transistors and bottom … Read more
Moving on from the Valve Caster, and as recommended by Neil McNasty, here’s Rick Holt’s Vibracaster. The tube components are very similar, but the Gain, Tone and Volume controls have been removed and components selected for unity gain and a simple LFO added. There are lots of mods suggested for this on diystompboxes but I’ve … Read more
Request. Matsumin’s popular circuit using a 9V powered 12AU7 tube in a mojo and compact layout. The white wires are for the offboard connection to the tube socket.