Month: September 2019
Clark Gainster
Here’s a pretty simple drive that everyone says sounds amazing. Original units had mojo parts and point to point wiring. Should fit nicely in a 1590B.
Keeley Magnetic Echo
Original info: “The Mag-Echo pedal simulates tube tape echo sounds by using the delay circuit and a little bit of modulation. Tape echos have long been regarded as a warm and very guitar friendly form of delay. The Mag-Echo achieves similar results by using a touch of Lo-Fi delay, a slightly filtered echo response to … Read more
Brunetti Taxi Drive
Here’s a pretty interesting lower gain overdrive. There’s a an opamp gain stage with soft clipping going into a JFET stage that pushes a modified BMP tone stack, followed by a BJT output buffer. One of the diodes in the opamp stage is unknown, so socket and experiment. I also took a few liberties from … Read more
Hornby Skewes Shatterbox
Got a request for this one for Fuzz Friday. Fairly simple fuzz + boost box. Originals used PNP silicon transistors, but you can use NPNs just as well. The perf side below reflects the original’s positive ground and the etch side shows daisy-chain-able negative ground. If you want to put 2 footswitches in a 1590B … Read more