Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
And on the eighth day… well not exactly that long ago, but close – and yes others came before, but it’s hard to not acknowledge the Arbiter Fuzz Face as being a giant of vintage fuzz, a design icon if you like, with possibly the most widely recognised enclosure ever made. It’s hard not to like a Fuzz … Read more
Harmonic Percolator is one the coolest vintage dirtboxes out there with its simple yet unique design, its odd even order harmonics texture, odd mojo parts and it is also a very good overdrive with the gain control rolled back. But using mostly humbucker equipped guitars nowadays it tend to be overly compressed and a bit … Read more
The Dinosaural Tube Bender from Dan Coggins of Lovetone fame, who now designs for Thorpy FX. The Thorpy Fat General compressor is actually a Dinosaural OTC-201 Opticompressor. You can read up on that here. This is the most recent trace from Aion Electronics. Aion do a pretty good job of tracing to say the least, … Read more
This is a very unusual one – the Earth Sound Research Graphic Fuzz. Why is it so unusual – have a look at the schematic. It has no input or output caps, and the IC runs at +/- 4.5V. Practically half the parts on the board are for the split rail power supply. Be careful … Read more
At first I thought this was an original Darkglass design but couldn’t find any info on it except for the schematic. But it turns out it is a DIY designed project by zencafe at DIYSB. Schematic and info in this thread, Looks like a fun and quite simple project which looks like a hotrodded Red … Read more
This is the Ghost Effects take on the WEM Project V – the Warmjet V. The name is a combination of the original WEM Project V, and the Brian Eno album, Here Comes the Warm Jets, which the pedal was allegedly used on and supposedly remains a favourite of Brian Eno (according to the internet, so it must be … Read more
Univox Unidrive boost with Aion FX mods The original Univox Unidrive was a straight boost, with a bit of dirt – it was a large rocker pedal with preset gain levels on a rotary switch, and the rocker controlled the output level, not unlike a regular volume pedal, but with the increased level of a booster. The don’t … Read more
