Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
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
Per request. Schematic is avaiable HERE and a verified layout for the Lead Channel is avaiable HERE.
Not a huge amount of variation on Zonks in terms of component values, and at one stage this was all on the MKI table, but I decided to split the two. ZONK MACHINE SCHEMATIC ZONK MACHINE COMPONENT VALUES Link to table BUILD NOTES In my experience, the Zonk can be a little easier to make … Read more
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
By looking at the component values, this appears to be a smoother, tighter, civilized and mid oriented Muff variant especially when you compare it to Ultrastoner and TSM680…
Based on Maxon Distortion Master but with a hardwired bass control and different component values along the signal path. The buffered bypass swithing wasn’t included in the schematic so I left it out.
The fuzz and wah section of Ltava Fuzz/Vibrato/Wah multi effects pedal manufactured in Ukraine in the early 80s. The LFO section was left out simply because the layout would be too big. The internal trimpots is taken out on the outside for external gain controls. And a onboard voltage inverter was added. Schematic: … Read more
