Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s a unique fuzz box from Italy for #fuzzfriday. Long, warm sustain like a Big Muff, but with better articulation when strumming chords. There seems to be a couple different ways to build this (circuit is the same, just a few components vary), and it’s ripe for modification. Using high gain silicon transistors like MPSA18 … Read more
I could have sworn I posted this back when I started this blog, but apparently not (hence the ‘old school’ pcb). It’s another of Nocentelli’s designs and somewhat similar to the Marvel Drive. Original schematic can be found on the FSB thread.
Here’s a cool variation of the Vox Repeat Percussion tremolo from EQD. It adds some extra controls to the original circuit for more versatility and control. I had a hard time tracking down a schematic for this one and ended up just tracing the vero layout from the Tagboard Effects blog. So here you go … Read more
Here is a layout for a very famous pedal. There were some noise issues with the original buffered version. I’ve added a true bypass version below.
Here’s something interesting to do with some of those 4049UB chips. It’s a CMOS Big Muff (22/7 being the fractional equivalent of pi). Brian from ROG added a switch to the tone stack to allow for flat response and a super scooped response, in addition to the classic scooped mids. I’ve also drawn up a … Read more
Madbean’s updated version of his great Zero Point SDX delay pedal. You can find all infos on this circuit or buy one of his PCBs here: http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/index.html There are no videos available at the moment.
This is Madbean’s version of the famous Univibe pedal. I’ve added a “Multi-Vibe Mod” to it. You can find all infos on this circuit or buy one of his PCBs here: http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/index.html 09/11/2016 Layout Updated! Changed the charge pump daughter board. There’s also a different but verified layout by Savvas in the Forum section.
I really enjoyed making the Big Muff Project file a couple months ago and thought it would be fun to make a similar project based on the MXR Distortion +/DOD OD250 circuit (in an attempt to combine the 2 names I call this project the Drivestortion). This circuit was also cloned by other pedal manufacturers … Read more
For #fuzzfriday, here’s an interesting take on the Fuzz Face circuit. It uses silicon PNP transistors, but is still a negative ground effect (so daisy chaining power supply is still ok). I guess Sean had a bunch of extra 2N3906s lying around. I took a few liberties with the power filtering and polarity protection, but … Read more
