Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Ran into a schematic of a preamp on-board circuit found in Blade brand guitars. The original called for LM4580 dual opamp, other channel unused. So i drew this layout for a single channel chip and added volume control, power filtering etc. You could try on a number of single opamps to see which sounds best … Read more
Haven’t counted, but i believe we have fair number of Tubescreamers and derivatives listed here. And here’s one more. Tweaked with couple of mods to low frequency response and gain. Switchable diodes etc. The boost switch is a stomp and with 2PDT you can use the second pole for a LED. I’ve omitted the 27K … Read more
I think Mark would have squeezed this in a bit more compact size, but i got it “down” to 21×29. So super brave folk may aim for 1590B, but rest of us may want to give this a go with 125B or 1590BB instead. Layout is based on a schematic which was provided with the … Read more
Thanks to Miro for the excellent trace job he did on this. Hope you’re stocked up on 470nF caps. They were all polarised but I have shown poly for the caps with a 5mm pitch because I expect that is what most people will use. I have shown electrolytics for the two with only a … Read more
Here we go with one of my personal favourites. To me, the sound is simply amazing. As Dirk’s notes on the schematic suggest, you won’t be saving any money by building this. New ones sell for pretty cheap and one should be able to score a used one for a very decent price. I still … Read more
Here’s a challenge for those who want theirs in 1590B. Should fit, but it’ll be a challenge. From ROG: The English Channel was our first attempt to adapt the Vox AC-30 Top Boost amplifier for use as a guitar pedal. Released in 2004, the English Channel was a straightforward JFET implementation that was heavily based … Read more
Request. Sorry Zach (rocket88), I was in the mood to do a quicky and this fit the bill nicely :o) This is very close to the Ghetto Stomp and probably could be thought of as a cut down version with saturation control on the diodes. Oh another pedal that used it before Fuller’s ridiculous patent! … Read more
We always recommend trying the boards out before soldering everything in to the enclosure. Main reason being that if you have an error on your build, it’s about a hundred times harder to find it inside the otherwise finished build. Like Madbean says – Build it, Rock it, Box it. There is a reason for … Read more
While I’ve got the wah template loaded I may as well add this one too :o) Again thanks to mmolteratx for the schematic. Info about the original: When people talk about wah-wah pedals, they’re talking about the Cry Baby Wahs. This is the one that created some of the most timeless sounds in rock. The … Read more
Stumbled on to an older Effdub design. This one’s based loosely on the Hot Cake and should deliver similar overdrive sounds. Could even solve the oscillation issues a few folks experienced with our original Hot Cake layout.