Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s a nice little compressor that should be a fairly easy build. It doesn’t have the squish of a DynaComp, but goes for a more subtle compression like the Orange Squeezer. Board mounted pots and an easy fit in a 1590B. Here’s the schematic for reference.
Here’s Bjorn’s Baby Blue overdrive. Fairly straight forward JFET circuit with hard clipping in the 2nd stage. The clipping diodes in the original are (massive) 2A1200s, but other silicon diodes will work–socket and experiment. The JFETs used in the original aren’t confirmed, but I’ve laid it out for GSD pinout. Pots are board mounted and … Read more
Here a Black Friday Fuzz layout to compete with your Christmas shopping. The Haunting Mids is a one knob variation of a Big Muff. The Sustain control is a trimmer internally and the tone section and recovery stage have been removed. Great one for bass! Should be an easy fit in a 1590B or even … Read more
Here’s the Spaceman Saturn V boost pedal. It’s a pretty unique booster and uses depletion mode LND150N3-G MOSFETs. In original units, there are 2 resistors in series going to each drain of the transistors. They essentially create a 4.7k resistor using some really uncommon values. (It appears that the only reason for that is for … Read more
A recent request that caught my eye, a fairly simple theremin project. I’ve always found these to be neat with tons of possibilities when combined with other effects. The project was posted over on Instructables. Original without Regulator With Regulator
Here’s a fun sputtery beast for Fuzz Friday. Like many of Dwarfcraft offerings, this ones got a lot of character and goes from fuzz to experimental with just a few knob turns. I’ve laid it out so you can fit it in a 1590B long-ways (much like a zVex pedal). Here’s the schematic for reference.
The Hot Wired is a dual channel dirt box offering distortion and overdrive modeled after the tones used by Nashville session artist Brent Mason. I’ve laid it out for board mounted pots with the board mounted vertically in the enclosure. I laid it out with a 1590BB in mind, but you might be able to make … Read more
Another fuzz from Nine Volt Nirvana, Joe Gagan. It’s another modified Fuzz Face, and from the one video of it, it sounds bad ass.
Original FSB thread and schematic available here. These are 2 separate effects in one box. Follow Mark’s Dual Offboard Wiring. 23/11/2017 Layout Updated! Added the 2 Inputs caps.
This is Moosapotamus’ take on the Vox Repeat Percussion tremolo. The Skippy keeps the character of the original, but with more control while covering a much wider range of tones. There’s also the option to use the modern 2N6027 instead of the vintage 2N2646. And you can plug in an expression pedal to control the … Read more