Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The LPB-1 was the first effect made by Mike Matthews and Electro Harmonix. Like many other effects at the time, it was housed in a small box that plugged directly into your guitar. It was designed to give you a volume boost and push the amp into overdriven territory. EHX still makes the LPB-1 (Linear … Read more
Here’s another “Brian May in a box” circuits, this time from Run Off Groove. The May Queen is a treble booster/overdrive that should get you pretty close to those classic Queen tones. The cap between 9v and the drain of Q3 in the layout below is optional. It’s a high end filter, so the larger … Read more
Here’s a great sounding one-knob fuzz from Creepy Fingers Effects for your FuzzFriday. It’s based on the fuzz section of the Colorsound Fuzz-Wah and follows the basic structure of the Fuzz Face, just with a fixed resistor in place of the fuzz control. Shouldn’t be hard at all to fit in a 1590a enclosure.
Blackstone… The Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive is a Pedal developed by a company named Blackstone Appliances. It is total different than other overdrives, and is not based on any circuit i know. It has a fuzzy sound on some settings, and it sounds smooth and creamy and provides great sustain Schematic My Build Ive used a … Read more
The Catalinbread Galileo emulates an Vox AC30 and a Rangemaster treble boost in one to give the user tones like Brian May of Queen. The Galileo Mk. II differs from the Mk. I with fewer controls and in a much more pedalboard-friendly enclosure. It’s a bit stripped down from the original, but sounds fantastic, and … Read more
General The fulldrive is an overdrive pedal originally developed by fulltone. its basically a tube screamer circuit but features mosfet clipping and a boost function for additional gain the boost is no separate channel, it just increases the gain pot and therefore the overall circuits gain That means, the boost section only works when the … Read more
Here’s a well designed buffer by Martin from SoulSonic FX. Use it as a stand alone buffer or as an output buffer in another pedal. Should fit easily in a 1590a enclosure.
The Sucker Punch uses the popular combination of a JFET and 386 op amp, much like the Lovepedal Black Magic/Purple Plexi, or DAM Sonic Titan. Nick Greer put his own spin on this and it sounds pretty good. The 100k trim pot is to bias the drain of the J201. Set to 4.5v and then … Read more
I guess I’m about 15 years late to bypassing effects using this method, but I thought I’d post it anyway. Like most builders, I generally use a 3PDT footswitch for most of my builds. However, I recently purchased some DPDT footswitches to use on a few effects that either use a weird way of switching … Read more
You might look at this and think, “Gee, it’s just another Fuzz Face,” when in actuality, this pedal pre-dates the famous Dallas Arbiter stombox. (This is different from the Sola Sound ToneBender Mk I, as the Sola Sound has 3 transistors.) It was made in Italy for Vox and sounds like a Rangemaster and Fuzz … Read more