Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This is the octave portion of the Sunn Life pedal by Earthquaker Devices, taken from the Pedal PCB schematic. It’s an EQD Tentacle (Dan Armstrong Green Ringer), with an input buffer and blend control. I made this as an add-on for other builds – or if you want to build a Life pedal, add … Read more
The Earthquaker Devices Plumes is their take on a Tube Screamer, and it’s quite a good one. It’s somewhat simpler than Palisades, which is probably about as far as anyone would want to take a Tube Screamer. I’m not one that really likes Tube Screamers a great deal, as I never got the mid-boost and … Read more
This is a JFET version of one of the Benson amps, which is I think why the pedal doesn’t really have a proper name. It’s hard to find a B2M pot for the bass control, but you can use a dual B1M pot and gang the two sides together to reach 2M. Check the Pedal … Read more
After the Thorpy Fallout Cloud, I thought I might do another bax Big Muff. The Catalinbread Manx Loaghtan pre-dates Thorpy’s by quite a few years. The same basic idea, take a Big Muff and swap out the single tone control for a baxandall tone stack. CATALINBREAD MANX LOAGHTAN – VERO LAYOUT EQ CURVES
MTK traced this pedal and sent gutshots and component values to AlexS who sent them to me to make a schematic and a proper layout with all components on the board. Still, there is some offboard wiring to do since it is two circuits in one enclosure. So what is it? Essentially an Electra Distortion … Read more
This one was quite a mess to get right since some of the schematics online was missing parts and/or had the wrong values. After some head scratching I worked from the factory schematic of the actual amp. However, did some mods without changing the charcter of the sound to much. First 9v/-9v operation is used … Read more
