Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Since I’m on a Fuzz Face thing at the moment – the JB Fuzz Face is basically Soviet-era germanium transistors with trimmers. Soviet transistors definitely have a slightly different texture to them when it comes to fuzz. DUNLOP JOE BONAMASSA FUZZ FACE – VERO LAYOUT
The cheap plastic casings fools us but Arion did some really good sounding stompboxes in the 80s and 90s. Here is a quite simple distortion unit that is supposed to be a sleeper. Earlier versions had silicon diodes as hard clippers which was switched to red LEDs later on. So I included a diode switch. … Read more
A J-FET amp emulator hailing back from the early 80s, quite ahead of its time. Trimpots are included to be able to bias the FETs and the 5,6k inline with the trimpots is reduced to 2,2k to be able to use a wider range of J FETs. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
An old request. This is pretty much a Rat with an active treble control and two fixed eq gyrators making it quite bass heavy. Lots of mods can be done like a diode switch, tweaking the gyrators and the tonestack as well as tweaking the RC filter at the first gainstage.
FUZZ FACE VARIANT SCHEMATIC, INCLUDING MK1.5 & VOX TONE BENDERS The schematic includes room for components not present on a standard fuzz face, as some variants have additions. I thought I’d keep it relatively simple and not venture into circuits with input blends or the various trimmers substituted for resistors (at least for now … Read more
