Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
A simple mod to provide more flexibility for the timbre range of the Buzzaround. One side of the timbre control is 15khz high-pass filter, which is very high. The useful range of the timbre sweep is rather limited as a result of this, and there’s also a bit of volume loss that comes with this. Some D*A*M … Read more
The more common version of the the vintage Small Stone phaser. Modernized for LM13600/LM13700 OTA ICs.
I just realised I had not uploaded a vero layout for my all-time favourite JFET-based guitar effects. The Barbershop from Fairfield Circuitry. This is a workalike for the Millennium; if you want to make the standard Barbershop, remove the switch and the two capacitors attached. The caps for the tone switch can be anything you prefer. … Read more
While I was thinking of what could be made with tag board off-cuts, this popped into my head. The D*A*M Red Rooster Booster is probably my all-time favourite booster – I’ve only ever made one, and it was so good I stopped there (it was a point-to-point npn version with trimmer). This is a PNP … Read more
I typically buy tag board strips with 18 lugs, usually leaving 6 left over after a few of my recent builds. So, what to do with a small board? Fuzz Face… has to be one of the all-time classics of guitar effects. ARBITER FUZZ FACE – TAG BOARD LAYOUT – PNP GERMANIUM ARBITER FUZZ … Read more
Happy New Year, everybody! This one recently got traced over on FSB. The 25th Anniversary edition of the Red Llama has an added hi cut tone control, but also has a few variations from the original circuit. The hi cut itself is just a basic cap/pot to ground tone control, the minimum gain resistor on … Read more
HAMMOND ENCLOSURES – MAXIMUM VERO & TAG BOARD WIDTHS Hammond 1590B Standard vero board Portrait: 21, possibly 22, with a bit of help from a file Hammond 1590N1 (125B) Standard vero board Portrait: 23 Hammond 1590BB Standard vero board Portrait: 33 Landscape: 43 0.15 inch … Read more
I’m sure there are more than a few layouts out there for the Tone Bender MKI on tag board – I’m sure a couple more will not hurt. These are based on the Zonk Machine tag board layout, and I’m planning on adding an extra tag or two to adapt it to a D*A*M FZ-673 and … Read more
