Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Found a trace of this over on the Tagboard Forum. It appears to be a highly modified Fuzzrite with an added gain recovery stage and a lot of value changes. The Saturation pot increases the output cap of the first stage, and the Fuzz pot is a pregain control. Originals use PN2222 transistors for Q1-2, … Read more
Stumbled across this schematic and it’s like CJ’s Shoot the Moon and the EA Tremolo had a baby (Though I think this predates the Shoot the Moon…)–the audio path is like the Shoot the Moon and the LFO from the EA Tremolo has been adapted to pulse an LED. Use a 5mm diffused yellow LED … Read more
Description from the Big Muff Page Among the many Japanese Big Muff clones, one of the first on the market was the Super Fuzz Sustainar, a nearly exact clone of a 1972 era Big Muff made by the Hoshino Gakki company (early units possibly made by Miyuki Ind. Co.) sometime around 1973. It was housed … Read more
” The vintage sound of an analog OTA-based phaser melded with contemporary parameters out the wazoo. From classic and not-so-classic sounds, subtle and over-the-top phase tones, mellow through seasick pitch vibrato, ringmod, glitchy octave effects, and outright strange phased/autowah/tremolo hybrid sounds you won’t find anywhere else. No doubt the Whetstone can do things that your … Read more
The originals used a now nearly unobtainable SAD512D chip, but the wizards on FSB converted it to work with an MN3007. Now that those are also hard to get a hold of, I’ve laid this out for an MN 3207–which is almost the same as the 3007, just with a slightly different pinout for power … Read more
An oldie, but a goodie (I assume–Jack designs good stuff). It’s a unique high gain design with a 3-band EQ. In Jack’s own words: It was made by combining the following circuit fragments: input gain stage is the Muffer, followed by the IC gain stage of the Fat Gnat, a tone control from the Fender … Read more
This was a request. You could use external pots instead of trimmers. Schematic available here.
Here’s another Devi circuit for Fuzz Friday–the Ruby. It’s essentially 2 Electras (sans clipping diodes) stacked. In Devi’s own words, “The Ruby is like a Tone Bender, but way classier and secretly more misogynistic.”
Here’s a simple bass preamp circuit derived from the Sunn 200S using JFETs. It’s pretty similar to the Bassman Preamp, but with the EQ section at the end of the circuit instead of the middle. Original S200S amps didn’t have the Mid control, but it’s kind of necessary IMHO. Bias the JFETs to 4.5v and … Read more
“The Dunes, like the Palisades, is a Tube Screamer variant. Yet it goes a step further from the original, adding a few extra features that go a long way to matching your guitar and pickups, to your amp. The knobs are familiar—Tone, Gain and Volume. In addition, there are three toggle switches that really make … Read more