Building A Clone Of The Honey Bee OD

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A week ago or so, I finished building a Honeybee clone. I went with the madbean pcb (discontinued) and bearfoot version of the circuit. The enclosure is a brush-painted Eddystone in gold/apricot with a adhesive decal and clearcoat on top. Here is a photo after the box was clearcoated. The decal was made full size including the knob, led, and … Read more

Building A Klon Buffer

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I kept reading the Klon’s buffer is the best buffer ever and “makes everything sound better”, etc. Curious as I am, i wanted to try this myself. I didn’t need to source any parts except a 1590A sized enclosure and some jacks that I bought at a local electronics store. I decided to paint this … Read more

Tonebender MKIII

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3-Knob Tonebender Fuzz Most popular fuzz circuit besides the Fuzz Face is probably the Tonebender, which is also very simple but has 3 instead of 2 transistors. There have been different variations of the Tonebender Fuzz curcuit. The MKII has two knobs – volume and fuzz – and there are also 3-Knob versions which have … Read more

Klon Centaur

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Klon Centaur The original Klon Pedal is no longer produced and hence very expensive (+7000$ range and up). Thats why there are many clones of the Klon, many different DIY projects, for example the Kliche overdrive, the Kherion Klon from PCB Guitar mania and the AionFX refractor. Ive used the refractor project because it has … Read more