Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s another great circuit by Bjorn (who also designs all the Mad Professor stuff). It’s an optical compressor that’s very similar to the Mad Professor Forrest Green Compressor. It’s not too heavy handed, and is, as Bjorn has said, “The compressor for people who hate compressors.”
There’s a reason why the Mad Professor has been around so long. I imagine some long white haired old man sitting behind a collection of giant fluorescent tubes and lightening, creating taboo music devices for the masses. With every new invention he’d hoop, jump, and click his heels as if to have lost his mind. … Read more
Analog Alien is proud to announce the release of it’s first single effect guitar pedal in the Fall of 2015. The Bucket Seat is the junior version of the already released and supremely popular Rumble Seat. The official release of the Bucket Seat will be on October 15, 2015. MSRP will be at a super … Read more
Here’s another circuit I ran across will going through the Free Information Society site. It’s designed by Jamie Heilman and seems to be like if a Distortion + and a germanium fuzz had a baby. The first stage uses a single op-amp (NE5534 in the original, but others could be used–TL071, LM741, etc) that pushes … Read more
Just wanted to give you guys a heads up: If I don’t post as frequently as I usually do, or don’t respond to comments, it’s not because I don’t love you guys anymore. 😉 My wife and I just had our second son today and I will probably be continually exhausted for the foreseeable future. … Read more
I’m stoked to be back and super stoked to do so with this awesome and very popular pedal from our friends at Xotic Effects. I’m sure many of you have had experience with the “Tremendous Trio” that is the BB Preamp, AC Booster, and this here champ of a stompbox the RC Booster. The Reason … Read more
Here is the ColorSound Bass Fuzz for today’s #fuzzfriday post. It’s pretty much an amputated Big Muff. It’s been tuned for bass guitar and has the gain recovery stage removed (for simplicity I suppose… that and the BMP can be just excessively loud). The first gain stage also doesn’t have the typical diodes a normal … Read more
Here’s an overdrive I stumbled across while browsing the Free Information Society site. It was designed by Jake Nagy and was quite popular in the DIY world at while back. Here’s what he had to say about it: Blue Magic is a very low to medium grit, tube-like, overdrive pedal that is based on a … Read more
Pawel from turretboard.knucklehead.dk (aka sinner from FSB) has very kindly offered for us to post some of his layouts which no longer fit with the theme of his website, and so we’re starting off with the Aria Super Fuzz Sustainer. I can’t find much in the way of marketing info so don’t know what Aria … Read more
The ROG Eighteen is an overdrive/distortion circuit based on the classic 18watt Marshall amp of the late 60s. It uses JFETs in place of tubes, like many other ROG amp-based drive effects. J201s are specified, but socket and try some other JFETs (2N5457, MPF102, etc.) The Volume control will probably act more like a gain … Read more