Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
A nice simple one – the Analog Man Astrotone, which is pretty much a stock Astrotone, with some mods to make it worthwhile. The original circuit is a bit thin and is said to only sound good with the volume right up, making it too loud to use in most situations. The Analogman mods fix this, … Read more
After realising I had the “right” transistors for this, I thought I should have a crack at a Vox Tone Bender. I’ve done a generic vero layout with room for mods, with some common values listed – I guess the most obvious is the external bias pot, which could be replaced with a standard 8k2 resistor. The D*A*M … Read more
A full description can be found here, which is the tagboard layout. I built mine on tagboard, but that isn’t for everyone, so the standard vero layout is below. D*A*M FUZZ SOUND FS-77 – VERO LAYOUT
Univibe Octavia Multieffect Pedal This build combines two pedals, which were made famous by Jimi Hendrix: The Univibe and the Tycobrahe Octavia Fuzz. I have used two madbean projects: The harbinger one for the univibe and the retrogade for the octavia. Ive put the octavia first in the signal chain. I just link to these … Read more
Not really a Tonebender; it’s really a Big Muff in disguise – minus a couple of diodes and a gain stage. These were built in the 1970s COLORSOUND JUMBO TONEBENDER – VERO LAYOUT COLORSOUND JUMBO TONEBENDER – VIDEO DEMO
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So given the Lightspeed and Southland are basically the same circuit, I thought I might add a switch to swap between the two. The switch does three things; Switches the hard clipping diodes in/out Changes op-amp gain (to account for the hard clipping diodes) Changes Drive pot resistance While they use different op-amps, they’re both … Read more
The Soma 63 is an amp in a box style pedal, with the usual array of J201s with trimmers replacing valves, an amp-style tone stack, and a transformer at the end of the signal chain thrown in for good measure. I added some mounting points on this, as you don’t want a board with a transformer on … Read more
