Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
[10th July Layout now fixed and verified, many thanks to John who bought and traced an original] Requested by a few people. The juvenile in me was so tempted to call this one the Huge Pork Sword, but thought I should start acting my age :o) This is a fairly big circuit for an overdrive … Read more
There are two dual opamps, and one half of the other is completely unused in the original. So i used the remaining half as a buffer for the reference voltage. D1 and D2 are your clipping diodes. Should be easy enough to add a third switch to act as a diode clipping switch.
A few people have requested this, and I hope they all don’t mind making links :o) LED/LDR layouts are such a pain! A very well regarded envelope filter that many think is the best sounding one of them all with this being based on RG’s Neutron project files due to the unobtainium status of some … Read more
The Kill Kill Filter is a dual filter pedal with a semi-truck of attitude! 2 identicle eq’s can be switched back and forth on the fly for an endless seeming changing sounds as you play. Create a new lead sound and then another! Blast in a solo! Chunk out on a heavy riff! You call … Read more
And another, being a classic rock guy this one appeals to me a lot! I can’t find a lot of info about the source of the schematic, but looking at the JCM800 2204 scheme it is extremely close. As usual, use the trimmers to set the JFET drains (other than Q4) to between 4.5 and … Read more
Emulation of the Soldano SLO 100 by GT Labs and including the suggested mods by Brymus. I’ve never really even used a presence control as they do nothing for me, and so I’d probably omit it altogether in this and the other recent amp emulations to reduce the number of pots, but I’ve left it … Read more
Thanks to Kit Rae for the schematic. I’ve seen a few schematics for this and the Kit Rae one has an extra connection between Filter 3 and the base of Q4 (pin 13). Maybe you want to try making that connection and see what you think. Info about the original thanks to the Wayback Machine … Read more
Request, layout for the Leegazzy Carvin Legacy emulator by Antonio Pelaez. I’ve shown a big axial cap as a filter in this one because there was plenty of space at the top and I have them exactly the size shown, but as always it will work just as well with a radial electrolytic, and you … Read more
Requested by a few people on the forum, this is a mini amp circuit by Taylor Livingston with a bit more ooomph than the others on here, giving 20 watts into a 4 ohm speaker, or 12 watts into an 8 ohm. Designed to run off a laptop power supply which I’m sure we all … Read more
[12th June 2014 – perf version added] I’ve wanted to do a layout for this one for a while, but it fell by the wayside as the board will just be too big to fit in a 1590B which I use the majority of the time. But there are a few builds I want to … Read more