Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s a non-Fuzz Face/Tone Bender offering from D*A*M for Fuzz Friday. It’s designed for bass, but sound great on guitar as well. It uses one half of a dual op amp to blend in clean signal, and the other half creates the distortion via soft clipping. You have 4 options for clipping diodes, germanium, silicon, … Read more
Here is a layout for the DOD FX22 Vibro Thang (Vibrato / Phasor) 04/05 Layout Updated: LM358 pin 4 and the 18K resistor from the bottom LM13600 pin 9 were connected to V+ instead of ground.
The Katana is a highly regarded clean boost pedal that can give a nice clean boost or push your tube amp into breakup. The circuit itself is fairly simple, but achieves extra headroom thanks to the internal voltage doubler. For this you can use a ICL7660 or MAX1044. You may want to socket the two … Read more
Info from their website: “Ziggy is a low to medium gain overdrive that is designed to respond like a tube amp. Unlike most overdrives it does not feature a “mojo” opamp but cascaded discrete (MOSFET) gain stages that give ultra touch sensitivity so that you can control everything from your guitar’s volume knob and pick … Read more
Switching an effect on and off can be as simple or as complicated as you can make it. 3PDTs are pretty much the standard these days for true-bypass switching. However most of the 3PDT footswitches I’ve used make a lot of noise (not necessarily in the circuit, it’s just loud when you step on them) … Read more
