Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Buzzotron is almost identical to the original layout for the Buzzaround, which was also built on tag board. It sounds pretty good – a bit low on output on some settings, but otherwise a very nice sounding MKIII variant. The Buzzotron only has minor differences to the Buzzaround – bias resistors on the … Read more
A fairly rare old Boss eq pedal which is rarely cloned due to the dual 10kA/10kC Balance control. However, it is quite easy to make your own if you have a dual 10kA pot and a single 10kA pot on hand. Custom pot tuturial and schematic is avaiable HERE.
Slightly modified, subbing the two single op amps of the original to a dual. 1458 or 4558 should match the spec of the original ones.
Just traced by Aion Fx as their Ixuea project. This layout is slightly modified compared to the original pedal. First, stock units had a fixed low pass filter before the volume control. The resistor in the filter is now replaced by an external tone control. Secomd, it is wired for true bypass with the input … Read more
Ghost Effects take on the rare and elusive WEM Project V Fuzz. Compared to the original, some overkill filtering has been removed and Edge and Drive switches has been replaced with a tone control labelled Edge. Information regarding mods and trimpot setup is avaiable HERE.
I thought it was another D*A*M variation on the Buzzaround, but it turns out that it’s actually an Elka Dizzy Tone, which is still very much a Buzzaround (as pointed out by Anders, AKA fuzzhead, see comments). There’s one resistor that I could not see the value of; it’s likely to be 18k based on … Read more
I’ve already made a point-to-point layout for this, and as I’m currently on a 0.15″ D*A*M vero roll, I thought, why not… and it’s a Zonk Machine with tweaks. Remarkably similar to the original D*A*M layout, I did move the output from the board a little and swapped pins on the swell pot to a more standard … Read more
Can’t believe I haven’t posted this one yet since it is one of the better vintage big muffs I built and played. In the very early days EH, component values varied quite a lot so this layout is based on Kitraes schematic HERE. There is also some notes and info the component values. Trannsistors is … Read more
