Catalinbread V8 Fuzz Engine
For the final Fuzz Friday of the year, here’s another one from Catalinbread. It’s a fairly unique design and much like the Hyperpak, it uses a 4007 chip and will fit in a 1590a.
Month: December 2016
Brown Sound in a Box 2
Somehow I’ve not laid out this DIY classic, so here’s the BSIAB2. It’s a great distortion pedal designed by Ed Guidry and is probably a must for any of you EVH fans.
Earthquaker Devices Hoof Reaper
It’s the last Fuzz Friday before Christmas, and as a present to you here’s 3 effects in one–the Earthquaker Hoof Reaper. It combines the Tone Reaper fuzz, the Green Ringer (Tentacle) octave, and Hoof fuzz in one package. For the germanium transistors, originals use an AC176 in the Reaper side and 1N1308s in the Hoof, … Read more
Catalinbread Hyperpak
Here’s an older design from Catalinbread (now discontinued). The Hyperpak is based around a CD4007UBE to generate a wide array of tones. Be sure to use the unbuffered version of 4007. Shouldn’t be too hard to fit into a 1590a like the originals.
Dan Armstrong Red Ranger
Here’s a classic circuit from Dan Armstrong–the Red Ranger. It’s a booster with a switch for boosting treble, full range, or bass. Original units didn’t have a volume control, but it could easily be added to the output.
Bartolini Tube-It
Came across a schematic for this awhile ago as it seemed interesting. It’s supposed to be a fairly rare overdrive pedal fetching up to $500. Here’s some information I found about it: The rare 1980s Bartolini tube-it Distortion Overdrive pedal made in Livermore, California, USA. Makes any amp sound like a Marshall. This may be the … Read more
Heavy Darling Fuzz
Found this one over on DIYSB and thought it’d be a good Fuzz Friday layout. It was designed by Dragonfly for the old FX-X contests. Here’s what he had to say about it: The Heavy Darling is a SIMPLE fuzztone that cleans up great, has old school character, and good sustain…pretty much ANYONE who can … Read more
Red Llama + BMP tone stack
I drew this up last month on a whim, built it and it actually sounds pretty good. It’s just a Red Llama with a Big Muff tone stack tacked on to the end. Ripe for tweaking to your own taste, especially with the values of the tone section. I changed the values to give boosted … Read more
Tube-Town Effects
Here is a serie of tube effect pedals by the German Tube-Town which were requested a while back. There aren’t videos available but you can find all infos, schematics and pcbs on their website here. (The Pepper Shredder has been discontinued but it’s supposed to be a tube distortion based on the Twin Valvecaster)
Electro-Harmonix OD Glove
Here’s the Glove from EHX’s nano series. Essentially, it’s an OCD with a switchable charge pump. On originals the voltage switch is internal, but external makes more sense to me, so wire that to your preference. Here’s the schematic for reference.