Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Per request. Based on Indigo Ranch Bigger Muff without the high voltage tube section. It is basically based on a Ram’s Head variant but with small filter caps and low gain transistors. I added a Mid switch for a bit more versitality.
Per request. A slightly modernized take on a Moog designed Fuzz/compressor hailing back from the 70s. The signal path remains true to the original but the rotary switch has been removed in favour for a variable fuzz control. And the two compressor settings is now fed through a toggle switch. The CD4007AE IC might be … Read more
A big thanks to Ian for sending me a couple of these PCB to trace! This one is already verified by Chris Stelloh, thanks buddy!
Ok, one more layout today. This one traced by Clément who was very generous to send me the schematic. Once again, thank you!
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.
