Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
From the captain: Dig it. Black Dust. The Black Acid pre-set to fold air. Fuzz and drive, wide open. Maximum attack, minimized footprint. Fuelled with the same PCB as the Black Acid, British made Magnatec BC109’s, Arcol carbon comps, BC/Vishay capacitors, prime cuts all the way. For those not familiar with this circuit type it … Read more
From the captain: The Black Acid is basically a fuzz face clone (circa 2012). It is a pool of thought and ideals. All the little iddy biddy nuggets of information learned from screwing around with this circuit over the last 10 years. Nothing revolutionary and no reinvention of the wheel just a different slice of … Read more
From the captain: Take 3. D*A*M Ram Head -> Emanating Fist Electronics XB-70 -> Emanating Fist Electronics Dope Priest. Same shit just a little more refined with an air of maturity, if the Ram Head was a bottle of Jim Beam the Priest is a bottle of Wild Turkey. As with the XB-70 the core … Read more
Direct from the captain: The origin of the idea was to be able to make some Ram Head’s at some point with and greater ease. I don’t really care to do that to be quite frank, old shit is old, so I have opted for this route. The XB-70 is a Big Muff, but to … Read more
Direct from the source: A revelation. Stripped down all out amp pusher. The Revelation has a trio of controls. Pre Gain, Gain, and Volume. LOTS of volume. Pre Gain sets the overall gain level of the device, the gain control dials in the correct amount of distortion and the volume knob absolutely slays the front … Read more
Since I posted layouts for the Hornby Skewes Zonk Machine, version 1 and 2, Will Kenworthy posted links to 2 other schematics that were traced and posted over at the DAM forum for a version of the Zonk II under the Sola Sound name back in the 60’s. I figured why not make layouts for … Read more
The Zonk Machine II was the more budget friendly version of the Zonk Machine. It was a simplified circuit and featured silicon transistors in place of germanium. Originals used 2N4061 PNP silicons, but other could be used. Because it’s silicon based, it shouldn’t be too hard to make the swap to NPNs so it can … Read more
Another day another fuzz. While we have a lot of fuzzface layouts on the site, you can never have too many fuzzface. There seems to be a bunch of different versions, at least a lot of different colors of them. I don’t remember where I found this schematic, but it’s a pretty good sounding fuzzface, … Read more
Came across the schematic for this one over at FSB, and it’s a pretty good marhally sounding OD/Distortion. Made by a company Caline, a Chinese company that sells direct. It’s actually stupid cheap, to buy, seen them for sale $35usd new. You may be asking, “well if it’s so cheap why spend time making a … Read more
From the Source: The Lehle Sunday Driver SW is a compact-format high-end preamp for all types of electrical and acoustic instruments – a preamp that enables electric guitars and basses, acoustic guitars, and also other stringed instruments (such as violins, cellos and double basses) to realize all of their musical potential. The switchable version expands … Read more