Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
For #FuzzFriday here’s Roger Mayer’s Axis Fuzz, and it’s the 100th fuzz effect on the blog. Maybe I should branch out more… It was designed by Roger in the late 60s for Jimi Hendrix, and is named after the title track of “Axis Bold as Love.” It uses a PNP silicon transistor for Q1 and … Read more
New – Limited Edition RC Booster Scott Henderson Model! Contact your nearest Xotic dealer to order: http://store.xotic.us/dealers/ Xotic Effects announces the release of the new Limited Edition RC Booster Scott Henderson model. This package will be limited to only 1,500 chrome and 1,500 copper pieces worldwide! Designed in conjunction with jazz fusion and blues … Read more
Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog. Thanks to everyone for your comments, verifying layouts, and just generally being really cool people. To celebrate, I give you a really cool and crazy delay, the Casper Electronics EchoBender. The EchoBender is a development of/modified Deep Blue Delay. I couldn’t quite get it to fit … Read more
The Octavia is one of the many legendary effects to come out of the late 60s. It is also one of the rarest pedals of the era, as there weren’t many built. Like most effects of its day, the Octavia is a positive ground effect. There are several schematics for it floating around, but the … Read more
This is a layout for the original 12V AC version. There’s also a +9V DC schematic but it has never been verified. You can find all the explanations in FSB and DIY Layout Updated! “Con” Switch added
I was trolling Google Images the other night looking for schematics and I stumbled across this. I think the only thing this reissue has in common with an original is the enclosure and graphics. It uses a single opamp with soft clipping and a Big Muff-style tone stack. If you use 9mm pots you could … Read more
King of Tone The king of tone is one of the most hyped overdrive pedals of all time. Its developed by analogman, but basically its based on the Marshall Bluesbreaker Overdrive. Its a dual channel overdrive pedal, so its basically 2 in 1. Both overdrive sides are basically identical, beside what clipping diodes and what … Read more
This one’s for those of you trying to nail some Jimmy Page tones. The RAH emulates the HiWatt heads Jimmy used live in the early days of Zeppelin. It uses only 3 MOSFET transistors, and features a 3-band EQ section. I’m going to shut up now so you can hear Andy from PGS put this … Read more
Here’s a unique fuzz box from Italy for #fuzzfriday. Long, warm sustain like a Big Muff, but with better articulation when strumming chords. There seems to be a couple different ways to build this (circuit is the same, just a few components vary), and it’s ripe for modification. Using high gain silicon transistors like MPSA18 … Read more
