Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Wampler Sovereign Distortion is a versatile beast of a distortion pedal that is unlike the rest of its ilk. The gain is rich and full of harmonic overtones, never sounding or feeling fake and stiff. Surprisingly shapeable and responsive, the non-traditional gain and EQ controls allow you to tune the pedal to suit any … Read more
Here’s the newer 4 transistor version of the Fuzz War for Fuzz Friday. Apparently the boys at DBA thought a modified Big Muff was a better circuit. Much like the Supa Tonebender, the first gain stage lacks clipping diodes, and (unlike the Supa Tonebender) the second gain stage has modified the clipping from the original … Read more
Here’s the original Dirty Little Secret from Catalinbread. It’s a great sounding overdrive that emulates the sound of a Marshall JTM45. The Rock/Rawk switch goes between two different gain settings, and this is a good candidate to be run at 18v for more headroom.
Here is a layout for the Rockett Flex Drive. You can find original thread and schematic here. The layout has already been verified by Gavin (Hozy31). Gavin said: “It seems biasing the drain to 4.5v is not the way to go. You need to turn it until you get decent volume on all switch 2 … Read more
Found this one over on the Tagboard forum and thought it would be a good addition here. It’s a simple noise gate with minimal parts count that can easily fit in a 1590a. I’ve laid it out for a board mounted pot. The schematic calls for a 1M pot, but people have built this using … Read more
Here is another great pedal we didn’t have a layout for. You can find original thread and schematic here.
This was an old request. You can find all info and schematic on Runoffgroove website here. And a version with an added Notch Depth switch.
It’s Fuzz Friday once again and this week we have the Satisfaction Fuzz from Electro Harmonix. It’s essentially a Jordan Bosstone without the clipping diodes and a smaller output capacitor.
Apparently it’s going to be a compressor week. It came to my attention that my original schematic and layout for the Deep Six had a few errors. And since I want to build this one myself and my dislike of off board wiring, I laid this out for board mounted pots. It should be a … Read more
Taken directly from BYOC. Possibly the World’s cleanest, most transparent boost. It utilizes the 7660S charge pump’s ability to take a standard 9v power supply and output both +18v and -9v. The op-amp based boost circuit takes advantage of the whopping 27v differential to produce 20dB with an amazing amount of headroom. It doesn’t matter … Read more