Month: May 2022
King Tone Heavyhand Overdrive
While slowly coming back from an eye surgery, I can sit infront of screens again, at least for for short periods of time, I whipped up a layout for the newly traced Heavyhand. It is basically a tweaked Bluesbreakerwith some extra features and sauce. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Darkglass Duality Fuzz
Happy Fuzz Friday! Here’s a big one that hopefully makes up for my absence lately. Sounds great on bass and guitar. From Darkglass: The Duality is a unique fuzz pedal that contains two discrete fuzz circuits—a gated saw-tooth wave and a raunchy high-gain sound—which can be mixed together to yield a vast selection of distinct … Read more
JOHN HORNBY SKEWES: Shatterbox, 0.15″ Vero Layout
Continuing with the Hornby Skewes theme, time for the Shatterbox – original layout below using the old school large format 0.15″ stripboard. Although I’m not sure if I actually want to build one this way… apart from all the off-board components, it’s PNP silicon, which is annoying having a positive earth circuit with none of the benefits of … Read more
JOHN HORNBY SKEWES: Selectatone TB2 Treble and Bass Booster, Tag Board Layout
While on the JHS thing, I noticed this booster and thought it looked interesting. The output switches between filters to allow for treble and bass boost, unlike most other boosters where it all happens at the input. Very few seem to be around, as I could only find one photo of the internals and one video … Read more
JOHN HORNBY SKEWES: Zonk II, Germanium Version
I started copying the original layout for veroboard and gave up toward the end as it’s a cramped mess – this is a similar but more practical version. The germanium John Hornby Skewes Zonk II is similar to a Fuzz Face but without the 100k feedback resistor, and note that the output cap is taken … Read more
SOLA SOUND: Tone Bender MKII Professional, Black Fish Skin Hybrid, 0.15″ Vero Layout
This is a slightly different hybrid MKII than I have previously seen – this is a Sola Sound MKII built by D*A*M, referred to as the Black Fish Skin version by Macari’s Music. The PNP Silicon transistor is a PNP version of a BC109 / BC108. I couldn’t see the value of one resistor on the photos, so a safe … Read more
Moonn Electronics Big Mess Pi
Nils from Moon Electronics just released a cool DIY project based on two LM386 audio amps with a russian style clipping stage with tonestack sandwiched in between. And it has a Havoc switch! Nils own words on it HERE along with build doc and schematic. I will be offline for a couple of weeks from … Read more