Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
For Fuzz Friday, here’s the BearFoot FX Candy Apple Fuzz. It’s a unique silicon/germanium hybrid designed by Bjorn and it rips. Originals use 2N1308 NPN germanium transistors, but others can be used. Pots are all board mounted and it will fit nicely in a 1590B. Here’s the schematic for reference.
Original description: “The TAFM was designed for low end heaviness with the ability to cut through a mix, to simply keep your guitar’s pick attack while having a really saturated fuzz-tone or just to have a subtle background fuzz behind your main keyboard sound. the TAFM excels at versatility and fitting in with almost any … Read more
Here’s the Super Tube Screamer from Ibanez. It differs from a normal TS9 with the input buffer and the added Mids control. I’ve laid this out for board mounted pots with a 125B enclosure with top mounted jacks in mind. Here’s the schematic for reference.
From the source: The Doom Bloom reimagines Algal Bloom with new controls, more lows, bite, mass, and more available headroom. It’s stupid with lows and menace! Designed to hold together and retain clarity with lower tunings. Controls: – Bloom is Bloom…it’s fuzz+gain+definition. It increases gain and note separation. Rather than going mushy or washy, it … Read more
The Quantum Mystic is probably the most tricked out DOD250 around. It was developed with Mike Scheidt from the band Yob and based on his Grey Spec 250. It features an active 3-band EQ section and can create tones ranging from boost, to classic distortion, to modern doom metal tones.
“The Funk-A-Duck is an envelope control filter which can be used to produce a wide range of “synthetic” analog-ish sounds. The input causes a control signal to be generated, which goes up and down as the input signal loudness contour goes up and down. This in turn sweeps the filter frequency back and forth.“ Output … Read more
Original Info: The La Grange pedal is designed to emulate the famous British “Plexi” amplifiers from the mid 60’s. The wide variety of controls and switches, give you decades of legendary plexi tones, all the way up to the era of the modded amps from the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s. An independent boost … Read more
For Fuzz Friday, here’s the Wattson EFY-6. This is Wattson Classic Electronics take on the classic Shin-Ei FY-6 (also known as the Univox Super Fuzz) and stays fairly faithful to the original circuit, but with a few straight forward and useful mods. The schematic and a full explanation of the circuit was posted on FSB by … Read more
Got a request for this one. It’s very similar to Bjorn’s Pale Green Compressor in his BearFoot Fx line, but with an extra stage for the Sustain mode. Here’s the schematic for reference. From the product description: FOREST GREEN COMPRESSOR (FGC) is designed to meet the highest standards of guitar and bass compression. There is … Read more
Here’s an early design from Freppo from Parasit Studio. It’s a punky overdrive/distortion transistor-based circuit. Here’s the schematic for reference. This was my first attempt at making my own overdrive from what I had learnt by building and modding other circuits. I had done a few heavily modded ones before, but nothing really original. I … Read more