Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
So there are a few bits missing, but if you are familiar with treble boosters, I’m sure you’ll work it out. Being a small and simple circuit, it’s a good candidate for breadboarding. The filter pot is your standard input blend, probably similar to the values that Steve Williams uses in his Pigdog Competition Special … Read more
I stumbled across this while looking for something else – so had to drop it in here. It’s a pretty weird looking circuit, and there are some really strange ideas about fuzz mentioned – including placing clipping diodes across the speaker terminals of an amp. I would not try that at home.
Just some historic speaker info from 1967 – although I had to leave a page of advertisements in, as it has a kit for a fuzz box available from Moody. For those not from Australia, Moody was a guitar amp brand, which was one of the big names back in the day. I had no … Read more
I picked this one up from a factory in an industrial area – apparently, it had been sitting there as long as anyone can remember, and it was actually used to play music at one stage. I know one thing for sure – they never opened it up to dust it. PHILIPS EV4437 … Read more
The original schematic for the 385 was killing me – just too many part numbers listed, so I cleaned it up a bit. I also removed the projector circuits. I think there are two versions of this amp – this is the 6V6 version, while the other uses EL84s (which is nearly impossible to find … Read more
Just documenting my latest Bell & Howell conversion. – Model 601 amplifier, with 1950 capacitor dates.
