Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Originally sold as the Lemon Drop, then the ZII, and now the Series 7. Description of the Series 7 from the source: Designed to mimic the unique overdriven tones of the rare Vox 4&7 series amplifiers in a small and easy to use stompbox. An unknown amp to most, the 4&7 series amps were most famously used by the … Read more
Here’s a really cool distortion based on Providence Stampede and designed by Kurt Ballou of GodCity Studio. He’s actually made his business card a PCB you can build this circuit on, and if you can catch them while they’re in stock you totally should. But while they’re sold out, you can build one using this … Read more
Next up of the Nine Volt Nirvana pedals is the BrontoBoost. From Joe. The new Brontoboost is a two stage booster/fuzz/OD/Dist unit that has a ton of different tones in it, all good! It goes from awesome treble boost like a British top booster, to fullrange boost, to very fat fuzz and everything in between. … Read more
I came across some a bunch of schematics for Nine Volt Nirvana, Joe Gagan’s old company. While I haven’t found any videos for all of them to get an idea of the tone I can guarantee that if Joe Gagan designed it it’s gonna sound awesome. First up, the Tape Measure Boost. The schematic calls … Read more
Found this one on FSB and haven’t seen any layouts for it, so I thought I’d give it a go. Originals are in 1590A enclosures with the Tone and Volume controls as trimmers, but I’ve laid them out as external controls. There seems to be some discrepancy on the taper of the gain control in … Read more
Not much info on this. From what I’ve read from the BJFE forum is that the 3 knob Sparkling Yellow Overdrive was a short BJFE Customshop run that’s supposed to have that old school early American tones, think Fender Tweed, Blonde, and Brownface. Video of the 3 Knob Video of Bearfoot version of the 4 … Read more
Original Info: “CC Hybrid is one of the first pedals to use one germanium and one silicon transistor in the classic Fuzz Face circuit. CC Hybrid is a stand-alone pedal that contains the same Silicon/Germanium fuzz face circuit as the original Captain Coconut and Captain Coconut2. To my knowledge, it’s the first example of a … Read more
The Brassmaster was originally designed for bass and also picked up by guitarists. The circuit is very unique and originals are hard to come by. I was able to lay it out to fit in a 125B with board mounted pots.
Interesting sounding 8-Bit fuzz, that’s not typically my type of pedal that I thought will get some love. Schematic is posted over at DIYSB. From the source: The Pixel is one of the earliest SHOE designs. It began as an oscillating fuzz and, after intentionally adding elements haphazardly and then adjusting the circuit so the … Read more
Well as usual just finished a round of exams, so it’s time to start posting the layouts I did when I was taking study breaks. This time I’m going to space them out so there’s not a sudden flood. First up the 18v Colorsound Power Boost. Same topography as the Colorsound Overdriver, but ran at … Read more