Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Seeing as I’m on a roll with these at the moment I thought I’d add another popular chorus pedal. It’s based on a few bits from 3 different schematics, and includes a Vibe and Intensity mods from the Tonepad scheme, rate LED and depth increase from Madbean’s Pork Barrel and the schematic from Electrosmash which … Read more
Modded to include a depth pot instead of the switch used in the original, giving you variable depth control rather than just two preset levels. Not the best looking layout with too many links and cuts, but it’s a means to an end, and it’s hard to avoid when you have 4 ICs, 3 transistors … Read more
[Updated 1st August 2014 – The schematic I did this from by UngodFX contained an error around the mids pot and mid voicing switch which stopped the switch from working correctly. The layout now posted corrects that error. For anyone who has already built this and needs any assistance in adapting it, post a message … Read more
John did a great version of this using vactrols but I wanted a version using simple LDRs so it was available to build for the maximum number of people. I would have preferred to have done this with a single LED with all 6 LDRs surrounding it, but it’s too awkward to do neatly with … Read more
I noticed we didn’t have this one in the library yet. The circuit is rather interesting mash of different bits and pieces. TS-styled clipping amp with serious sag called “Volts”, followed by two fuzz face style (with some features from the bazzfuss) circuits in series, which is followed by Big Muff-styled tone control. Not your … Read more
Old DIY classic with its roots pointing to rec.music.makers.guitar newsgroup and the year 1995. Briggs has posted the newsgroup message on his blog. So here it is. Quick and mean. Should be easy enough to be built in fifteen minutes. Just match those transistors. I know what the first comment will be. So don’t bother … Read more
Not sure what to call this. It has “Booster” written on the original unit, but still i think it’s rather closer to an overdrive than a booster. It’s definitely not a fuzz. Either way, it does sound pretty nice in the demos. There are other layouts for this circuit around the internets, but i thought … Read more
This looks kind of familiar. Let me think about it ….. Oddfellow Effects Caveman Drive … No just can’t remember, it will come to me. OK I nicked that joke from Dr Boogey on FSB, and thanks to him for the trace. One thing I must say is that in this vid it sounds a … Read more
