Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Found this over on the Tone Report Weekly and thought I’d make a PCB/perf layout for Fuzz Friday. It’s based on the fuzz unit in old Kustom K200B amps and utilized by John Fogerty of CCR. The first 2 transistor stages are from the original units, with a Escobedo Duente boost at the output as … Read more
Couldn’t really find a good description of this pedal other then it’s a Fuzz-Wah produced in the 70’s by Jen. Here’s my take based on the schematic. Just like many of the other fuzz wahs I’ve seen and working on layouts for this is essentially a classic inductor wah with a fuzzface type fuzz. There’s … Read more
Hadn’t done a wah in a while and thought I’d do project where you can build several old school wah circuits on the same board. Many of the early wahs back in the late 60s were based on the original Thomas Organ CryBaby, and as a result many of them follow the same topology with … Read more
The Colorsound Fuzz-Wah, or to be exact the Colorsound Wow-Fuzz! A new version of a funk-tastic old timer. The original 1970’s two transistor silicon distortion stage delivers the fuzz and the classic inductor based Colorsound wah circuit gives you the wow! Ah, the inductor based circuit you say. Been awhile since Colorsound did that, right? … Read more
Here’s another one for the bass players. It’s a pretty handy EQ pedal from EWS. Originals come in a 1590a, and sadly I wasn’t able to duplicate that here, but it will fit fine in a 1590B with board mounted pots. Originals have the Volume control as an internal trimmer, but I’ve moved that to … Read more
Mictester’s version of the Big Muff. You can find the original FSB thread and schematic here. I’ve used the updated schematic on page 2.
