Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I saw this Gray Bench teardown video the other night, and the values looked a little different to what I’d seen on other Sun Face schematics, so here it is. If you don’t feel like watching the video, the key difference: 51k resistor on the collector of Q1. The rest is all pretty standard for … Read more
For now, only the booster/overdrive section, might add a separate board for the switchcable bypass buffer later on… 2N5952s is getting really scarce but 2N5457s or 2N5458s is usually a good sub. Just mind the orientation! Schematic is avaiable HERE.
A nice simple one – the DOD 250, which is a Distortion + variant. Or is it the other way around? Either way, it’s a classic. DOD 250 OVERDRIVE PREAMP – VERO LAYOUT DOD 250 OVERDRIVE PREAMP – SCHEMATIC DOD 250 OVERDRIVE PREAMP – VIDEO DEMO
I’d already done the Blues Breaker in this format, and it sounded pretty good, so I thought why not try the MI Audio Crunch Box, as it’s a high-gain derivative of the Blues Breaker. They have a similar topology – the Crunch Box has the soft clipping diodes removed and hard clipping LEDs added after the … Read more
Almost didn’t draw this up since it’s just another Electra variant, but they almost always sound good, so why not? This one claims to emulate the sound of EL34 tubes, which sounds like marketing gibberish to me since it’s just a diode-less Electra. Originals are all hand wired, point to point, floating in the 1590BB … Read more
