Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s another design by Martin from Soul Sonic FX. Here’s what he had to say about it over on FreeStompboxes: It’s a cool little hybrid combo of an opamp driving a MOSFET. It has a great range of drive, from light and crunchy to thick and heavy. At it’s highest settings, some people might consider … Read more
12/12/2015 Layout updated! Swapped 2n2 and 56p caps in the Treble Switch as suggested by Nocentelli. Info from the original: Fuzz God II – the insane silicon brother of Germanium Fuzz God. It’s wilder, it’s crazier, it’s the loose cannon sonic brother that you wouldn’t introduce to your girlfriend, cause you know he’d try his … Read more
Info about the original: We set out to take a classic design with lots of history and make it obviously something new. We took the op-amp version of old PI and inverted one of the stages, brought out the midrange, tightened the bass, and most importantly, added a Germanium transistor output! Yes, this is a opamp-transistor … Read more
Around the same time that the EHX Big Muff was first released in 1969, Mike Matthews also released the Muff Fuzz. It was unrelated to the BMP other than the name, and came in the same small enclosure as the LPB-1 that plugged straight into the guitar. Later it was re-released in a floor pedal … Read more
Here’s another BJF designed circuit: the Sky Blue Overdrive. There are 4 controls: Z adjusts input impedance, Distort. controls gain, Texture adjusts the hard clipping, and finally the Volume. It uses 3mm LEDs in the feedback loop of the opamp, and then JFETs for hard clipping.
Info about the original: The Keeley Oxblood Overdrive is our response to everyone kloning pedals. We wanted to build a new circuit that let players blend from perfectly clean to amp-crushing roar. We wanted that impossibly huge and focused midrange that makes any guitar… Strat, Paul, Tele, sound incredible. We knew we could do it our … Read more
Hi guys! Alex here and I’m very excited to join the tagboardeffects squad. Thanks to Mark and Miro for the opportunity, and thanks to Travis, Zach and Javi for joining along. My first contribution to the main site is a great guitar synthesizer from EarthQuaker Devices. I would like to thank Njokki for reverse-engineering his … Read more
Vintage FX is one of the first pedal companies I got friendly with when I first started my blog. It quickly became a favorite and I even served on their artist roster back when I was still gigging religiously. Dave Archer has a passion for building these little boxes that rivals anyone in the scene. … Read more
Here’s a new one from Catalinbread for #fuzzfriday. The Katzenkönig–the cat king for those of you who don’t sprechen sie Deutsch–is a silicon tonebender-type fuzz with some RAT features thrown in. Catalinbread was kind enough to publish the schematic in the manual for this effect. Pots can all be board mounted using right angle PCB … Read more
Here’s the Lovepedal Englishman. It’s claimed to sound like a cranked Vox (either AC15 or AC30 depending on which clipping diodes are selected). Like many of Lovepedal’s offerings, this circuit is built around a single transistor. Unlike many of Lovepedal’s offerings, it’s not based off the Electra Distortion. Instead, it draws from the EHX LPB-1 … Read more