Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Had a sleepless night, so I decided to knockout some new layouts before the end of the new year. This one kicked my ass a bit, but I got it as small as I could. a nice sounding delay, that’s similar in architecture to the Deep Blue Delay. It’s a nice sounding warm, natural delay. … Read more
Another brutal fuzz machine from Devi, and sounds great on bass and guitar. Pretty straight forward design–two cascaded transistor amplifier stages with a pre-gain control (intensity) and standard volume control. Pots are board mounted and it shouldn’t take all that long to throw together.
Anders knocked out a layout for this a few days ago on the forum and beat me to it, but I still wanted to whip up a layout for the main page. From the Source: The DOD Carcosa Fuzz is a doorway into an alternate fuzz universe, where classic tones of legend coexist with splattered … Read more
From the source: Holy Spirit of the forest, fuzzly bear is here. Kick the Switch to unleash the beast. The sound of this fuzz-pedal is influenced by an old underrated box of the 1970, the classic Jordan Bosstone. The main reason why it did not conquer the world’s guitar players like other effects was the … Read more
From the source: The If 6 Was 9 is a modern interpretation of the classic late 60’s, early 70’s, Fuzz Face circuit with a few updates and modifications. At the heart of the If 6 Was 9 is a pair of hand selected, new old stock BC183 transistors. These transistors offer a great balance of soul and … Read more
From the source: With the Budda Om Overdrive guitar pedal, you won’t have to worry about your guitar tone not being able to cut through the mix. With plenty of gain provided in this tight compacted box, you get a pedal perfect for anything from an old-school crunch to mordern fuzz. Put the Budda Om … Read more
Merry Fuzz Friday, everyone! Here’s EQD’s latest fuzz offering, the Erupter. Essentially it’s a JFET buffer into a pickup sim (the transformer) into a Fuzz Face-esque circuit. The Bias control controls the amount of voltage going to Q3 and is a center detent pot (though a regular B10k pot will work just fine). This one … Read more
The BJFE Baby Blue OD is described as a dynamic pre-amp tube distortion, although it is technically more of a fuzz pedal with dynamic overdrive features. It is a killer fuzzy OD with a ton of dynamic and tonal range. So according to the thread over at FSB there’s no mention of the specific JFETs … Read more
Here’s an other heavy one. This one was designed by Martin (aka soulsonic) and is basically 3 transistor stages and a tone stack into a JFET gain recovery stage. The toggle switch selects between distortion and fuzz. The tone in Distortion mode is a big heavy, “Doom-y” sort of thing with alot of sustain. In … Read more
Got a request for this one. Another take on the classic Tube Screamer built for Brad Paisley. The traditional input/output buffers have been swapped out for JFET-based buffers, and there are two toggles for Presence and EQ (mids). Should be able to squeeze it into a 1590B.