Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Don’t know much about this one. Stumbled across it on the Tagboard forum and thought it was an interesting design. It can apparently do normal delays as well as some lofi craziness. Schematic and discussion here. Laid it out for board mounted pots to fit in a 125B.
Another “requested” monster layout! At least this one doesn’t use any weird components. You can find all infos and schematic from their website here.
Here’s another Wampler take on the JFET mu-amp design. This one adds a op amp stage at the output and features a Big Muff-style tone stack. This one’s pretty versatile and a great sounding distortion. Ian sent me his perf layout of this one and I refined it a bit for what you see below, … Read more
Here’s a work-a-like for the Spark Mini. It’ll be a bit of a squeeze, but it should fit in a 1590A. The original is all SMD components, so the transistors listed below aren’t the same as the original, but through-hole equivalents. Other NPN and PNP transistors can be used (2N5088/87, 2N3904/06, etc.). Here’s the schematic … Read more
Apparently mimicing Mesa MKIV head’s distortion. Hadn’t seen this type of distortion control in a pedal before, so i thought this might be a nice addition. Has nice amount of gain and there’s room for tweaking. Update 12.9.2017 – Don’t know what was going on in my head with the original layout revision. It had … Read more
Schematic was recently posted at FSB (Thanks Manfred!), but there are couple small things i decided to tweak for this layout. For one, the original has 4558 dual opamp in the circuit with other half left hanging. This layout has 741 in its place and the transistors are with more common pinout. Nice singing overdrive … Read more
Here’s a really cool one designed by the great Tim Escobedo. T.M.K. = Too Many Knobs. (And you thought the Fuzz Factory had too many) It’s part fuzz box, part noise maker and would probably be just as much at home on a synth rack as it would be on a pedal board. This can … Read more
A little blog update: You may have noticed there wasn’t a post yesterday and that there is one today. Why on a Tuesday and not a Monday? Some big-ish changes are coming to the site in the near future, which (along with a bunch of other small things) is taking up a lot of my … Read more
“Unlike traditional overdrive stomp boxes, the VH4 Pedal is a true preamp which delivers an authentic representation of its namesake – real Diezel tone – not emulated, not modeled, but sincerely reproduced. The entire signal architecture is faithful to the original: Bass, Mid, Treble and variable Deep and Presence controls allow you to tailor the … Read more
