Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
For #FuzzFriday, I give you the Orpheum Fuzz. There seems to be several versions of this circuit (germanium and silicon), but it’s essentially a FuzzRite. Since I’ve already done a FuzzRite layout, I thought I’d do a different one with onboard pots. It’s meant for use with silicon transistors, but you could use some NPN … Read more
Here are Jon Patton’s original Snow Day Overdrive and Madbean’s modified version (Flabulanche). You can find all infos on Brian’s website: http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Flabulanche/Flabulanche_2015.pdf Jon Patton’s video: – 2n5457s are biased around 12V.
Here’s the BBE AM64. While “Metal” is in its name, it seems more suited for heavier rock sounds. 70s metal at best. Nonetheless, it’s a very good sounding distortion box. The circuit is essentially a Guv’nor with soft clipping instead of hard, along with a DS-1 tone stack.
Here’s a simple one-knob drive that’s ripe for modification. It uses an interesting combination of one NPN and one PNP silicon transistor stacked together. There are a few different values you can tweak to taste. Here’s a schematic for reference: The input capacitor (C1) could be increased for more bass. C2 could be increased to … Read more
For #FuzzFriday here’s Roger Mayer’s Axis Fuzz, and it’s the 100th fuzz effect on the blog. Maybe I should branch out more… It was designed by Roger in the late 60s for Jimi Hendrix, and is named after the title track of “Axis Bold as Love.” It uses a PNP silicon transistor for Q1 and … Read more
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Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog. Thanks to everyone for your comments, verifying layouts, and just generally being really cool people. To celebrate, I give you a really cool and crazy delay, the Casper Electronics EchoBender. The EchoBender is a development of/modified Deep Blue Delay. I couldn’t quite get it to fit … Read more
The Octavia is one of the many legendary effects to come out of the late 60s. It is also one of the rarest pedals of the era, as there weren’t many built. Like most effects of its day, the Octavia is a positive ground effect. There are several schematics for it floating around, but the … Read more
This is a layout for the original 12V AC version. There’s also a +9V DC schematic but it has never been verified. You can find all the explanations in FSB and DIY Layout Updated! “Con” Switch added
I was trolling Google Images the other night looking for schematics and I stumbled across this. I think the only thing this reissue has in common with an original is the enclosure and graphics. It uses a single opamp with soft clipping and a Big Muff-style tone stack. If you use 9mm pots you could … Read more