Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This is a very simple little circuit from Dead Astronaut, which has a little bit of Big Muff happening in the clipping section on Q2. Maybe not enough to tag it as being in the Big Muff family, it’s certainly a second cousin. While it might be simple, the Dead Astronaut X Fuzz is a fierce little … Read more
The Lovepedal Fuzz Master is a silicon Fuzz Face with a blend control on the input shifting between two capacitors to increase/decrease the frequency range at the input stage. It uses silicon PNP 2N3906 transistors with a standard power supply – so if the layout looks a little odd, that’s what’s happening. V+ goes to the … Read more
The DeArmond Square Wave – it’s pretty much an MXR Distortion + with a couple of minor values changed. It does come in a cooler-looking box… There’s a great analysis of the Distortion Plus on Electrosmash, which will apply equally to the DeArmond Square Wave. DEARMOND SQUARE WAVE – VERO LAYOUT MODS The most obvious place to … Read more
Schematic avaiable HERE The switch appears to a on/off selector for the distortion section so it can be used as a stand alone eq pedal as well.
I just realised that I had not posted a Sola Sound Tone Bender MKII layout… I did the Marshall Supa Fuzz earlier, which is kind of same same but the layout caters for larger mojo parts, and even the D*A*M MKII hybrid for a silicon / germanium monster. For completeness, here’s the MKII. SOLA SOUND TONE … Read more
Schematic avaiable HERE Note that pot lug numbers isn’t labelled in the schematic. And the pot tapers is unknown but my best guess is that they are linear. This one seems to be a treble booster/light overdrive with a tonestack somewhat related to a parametric eq.
