Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Pink’s latest original. It’s suggested that “Bloom n’ Boost” switch should be taken as a stomp. And you should probably play around with the clipping diodes too. The feedback loop transistor reportedly needs to be a high gain PNP Germanium for the circuit to work right. Don’t know about you guys, but i’m going to … Read more
Modded slightly to include a Mid Range pot instead of the switch in the original to give you complete variable control of the mids frequency rather than just 3 preset values. I’ve done the charge pump on a separate board in an attempt to keep it 1590B friendly by allowing you to tuck the charge … Read more
Request, and as it was a quicky I thought I may as well get it out of the way. A tweaked positive ground Fuzz Face using Russian germanium transistors. Being positive ground as usual I would suggest trying it with a negative voltage inverter to supply the -9V and allow you to use a 0V … Read more
There are few manufacturers that raise an interest to simply go and get the original. I have no idea who the person behind Idiotbox is, but his designs, workmanship and artwork do please me to some degree. Plus his pricing seems to be on solid ground too. This one sounds particularly good. It has some … Read more
Yes. It is big. I’ve omitted the complex power supply, but left most of the noise reduction measures in tact. Transistor controlled LED circuitry is also gone. With dual gang gain pot and the board size, this will be a tricky but doable fit in 1590B. Marketing spiel from ten years ago: Attention: Guitarist who … Read more
Yup. Vox made TS. I omitted the overly complex power supply section and transistor based LED operation. Input and output buffers are 2SC2389 in the original units. You could also use those instead of 2N5088/2N5089. Just mind the pinout. Schematic i have has the output pulldown resistor at 1K, which seems way too small for … Read more
The mellower little brother of CM Heavy Drive. Original units share the PCB with each other, but there are number of differences on the circuits.
Just noticed we didn’t have any CM designs on the library yet. Demo vid i found isn’t the greatest quality, but it has a Dinosaur Jr. riff, followed by some White Stripes, so i just had to post it. Made me feel like 25 all over again. Pedal seems like a nice distortion unit too. … Read more
Request, thanks to PedalBlotter for his hard graft in tracing the circuit. This is a bit of an awkward circuit to try to find a good middle point to do it on two levels (like my Muff layouts) and have an even spread of components on the board, so I’ve just done it in a … Read more
And the standard version using the more widely available and cheaper BTDR2 bricks. This is set to be around unity but if you want a boost then experiment with the 12K resistor. 18K will give you a slight boost.