Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Two new MKIII / MKIV Tone Benders finished over the weekend – the circuits have been finished for a while, just had not got around to boxing them up. Hopefully off to new homes shortly. Pity Gapco is now out of stock with these enclosures – I should have bought more when I had … Read more
After recently finishing a mojo size / vintage transistor Tone Machine that has been sitting on the bench for way too long, I decided to do a regular layout, as the practicality of some of my other layouts for the Foxx is probably not for everyone (maybe even me in retrospect). So I’ve done a standard … Read more
A tweaked Foxx Tone Machine that some people have requested. Once again it is traced by TOFO. So what makes it different from a stock Tone Machine? Lots of oddball resistor values, twice as big input, output and decoupling caps, Shottky diodes and a Mid Boost switch at the tonestack which can be subbed for … Read more
A nice easy one – the Analog Man Sun Face Fuzz, which is, of course, just a fuzz face with a couple of trimmers. One for bias, the other to help pull back on the input level, as a kind of false volume pot cleanup. Yes, it is a big layout for a fuzz face… … Read more
This is the Peach Guitars version of the Hudson Broadcast, as traced by V1nce69 and posted on the Guitar FX layout forum. Others also did work on tracing in this thread, so sorry if I left anyone out. Lots of great gut shots and a bunch of measured voltages there too. The layout is basically … Read more
Traced by TOFO. This is a layout for the early big box version with three footswitches. It is based on the russian Big Muff but with more gain, reversed tonestack tone bypass switch, switchable and tunable feedback loop and a diode selector switch for the second clipping stage.
I found this schematic a little while ago and thought I might give it a try, as I’ve been looking to make a single band parametric equaliser, in this case, based on a State-Variable Bandpass Filter. It’s supposed to be from a Japanese textbook, but I’m not sure of its origin. It looks remarkably similar to a … Read more
Another request. Here is something quite different; sort of a distressed sounding reverb/fuzz/noisebox. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Here is a quite rare old japanese low to mid gain overdrive that is supposed to sound really good. A big thanks to Tobias for the trace!
