Month: December 2022
Biyang Tonefancier BL-8 Blue
This one is kind of a take on a single opamp overdrive with hard clippers ala OD250/Dist+, but the gain control is placed on the feedback loop like in many standard overdrive designs. Nothing too speacial or different, but a nice addition to overdrive palette nevertheless. Snippet from the spiel:The BL-8 delivers a creamy yet … Read more
Exar HR-03 Hammer
Another one from Vitalii’s traces. This one seems quite nice modern metal distortion with reasonable frequency characteristics. Should be enough gain too. The 47K at the top (horizontal one) may be a point to tweak for even more over the top gain. Like so many of these pedals of Polish origin, this one seems to … Read more
Sarno Earth Drive
Traced by GratefulEight, this overdrive seems like a circuit worth to try out. From the source: The Earth Drive is the ultimate boost/overdrive pedal, designed to retain your instrument’s natural character while providing an organic, full-bodied, yet transparent sound. Use the Earth Drive as a clean boost to add warmth and smoothing, or turn up … Read more
Exar DS-02 Distortion
VitaliiBobrov is doing an amazing job in tracing Exar pedals. This Polish brand has some decent tones and lots of room for tweaking and trying things out. Once again, try to tweak the values at the inverting input to ground. And try on a different pair of diodes for clippers, etc. No demos around for … Read more
Lastgasp Art Laboratories Green Monster Septic Fuzz
Found this circuit from the DEFX files and thought this to be quite interesting. Discontinued circuit with noise for days. From the source: The GREEN MONSTER septic fuzz (GM2)is an effect pedal to create a septic distortion. Characterized by a dirty, broken and rotten sound. Bad handling! GREEN MONSTER is back with four knobs! There … Read more
Joyo Roll Boost
Nice, small and has room for tweaking – i just love to do these modern, super cheap china circuits.. Layout is according to fsb-trace by CheapPedaCollector – who does amazing job with pedals like this one.
Dylan159’s Fuzz Facelift
It’s december already! From Dylan159’s Unreleased circuits on FSB:I’m not done with fuzz faces it seems. This one’s goal is to keep all the classic cranked gain tones while making the ill-treated gain knob more useful. This is accomplished by moving the gain control to the first stage. When maxed, you have a classic, low … Read more