Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This is a slightly modded Interfax Harmonic Percolator that I made today. It’s an odd little circuit – it can run from clean, a bit overdriven, then into distortion, and finally to overly compressed fuzz madness. The range of sounds are so broad, it’s almost worth setting it up as a dual pedal (which I … Read more
I have a fairly extensive post on the Wem Project V here, this is post is primarily to document my own work, as I’m not sure how many people would want to build in this style. Standing resistors are mostly frowned upon in the world of vero, despite being commonplace on many vintage effects. Joining … Read more
The Top Gear Fuzz is a rare English Fuzz Face variant from the late sixties / early seventies. It’s a fairly awkward build as it’s on a tiny piece of vero, floating between the two pots. There seems to be a couple of versions floating around (like all a lot of vintage circuits). I have … Read more
I do like some of the Beatles fuzz tones, and coincidentally I have a couple of Gretsch Guitars to match – so when I saw this, I thought I had to give it a try. It’s very closely based on the preamp from the Vox UL series amps, which were used on Revolver and in … Read more
Valvo transistors were produced in Germany, as a subsidiary of Philips (not unlike Mullard in England). More information on Valvo can be found here. My experience with Valvo, is that they are pretty much identical to their English counterparts. The OC45 is a PNP germanium alloy transistor intended as IF amplifier in AM broadcast receivers. … Read more
Another from the recent Aion FX Pete Cornish traces – this time it’s a variation of the CC-1 Crunch, the CG-1. Same layout, just a few value changes here and there. It will sound a little different to the CC-1, but not substantially. I quite like the CC-1, especially with an added mod to dial … Read more
Aion FX recently traced a few more Cornish pedals – and the NG-3 trace was was a real surprise package. It was thought to be a NG-2 with an external bias control. It’s nothing like the NG-2 trace by Pedal PCB – not even close. I did have a vero layout for the NG-3 … Read more
So the mysterious P-2 has finally been traced, care of Aion FX (thank you). I had previously posted a guess as to what this might be, and I wasn’t too far off. Here’s the same layout with confirmed values. PETE CORNISH P-2 – VERO LAYOUT
