Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s a simple, fairly low parts count chorus based around a PT2399, designed by Rick Holt (aka Frequency Central) from the DIYStompboxes forum. I’ve drawn 2 versions, one with board-mounted pots, and one off-board pots. The 2nd IC (NE5532 in the layout) can be any dual op-amp (a TL072 works well), just socket and experiment. … Read more
Here’s one of the most classic effects of all time, the Cry Baby wah-wah from Dunlop. The big red thing in the layout is the Fasel inductor, and there’s room on the board for a pull down resistor at the input if you need it, I just didn’t include it in the drawing. What else … Read more
I got a request for a layout of the Big Muff that could be used to build the Triangle, Rams Head, Green Russian, or NYC versions. While it shouldn’t be that hard to take one of my previous layouts of the BMP and make the value changes, I thought I’d make a more detailed project … Read more
Today’s #fuzzfriday offering is the Punch-In-The-Face, designed by Tim Escobedo. It’s based on the Fuzz Face, but with a JFET in Q2. Here’s what Tim had to say about it: The latest Fuzz Face inspired offering. The big difference is the “Trauma” control, when used with the Gain control, will yield tones from hard fuzz … Read more
Its getting Cheesy The Big Cheese is a pedal developed by Lovetone, a company from the UK who discontinued making pedal. So all their pedals are kinda “Holy Grails” The big cheese is a silicon Fuzz Face variant with an Input and output buffer, tone control – tone cap switch etc…a very versatile Fuzz! there … Read more
The Triple Wreck is a high gain distortion that some say sounds like a 5150 amp. It has a 3-band EQ and a switch to select between “Vintage” and “Modern” tones. There’s also a built in boost section to take things over the top. I’ve laid out the distortion section and the boost section as … Read more
Here’s another Dragonfly design. This one is basically two tweaked Electra Distortion circuits stacked back to back. Here’s a sound sample. Should fit pretty easily in a 1590a.
Here’s a layout for the Eric Johnson Fuzz Face. Had someone ask if they could build it on the basic Fuzz Face layout from last year. Since there’s a few extra components in the EJ version, I thought I’d make a specific layout for it. Should still fit in a 1590a though. Q1 is a … Read more
I stumbled across the schematic for this a while ago and have been meaning to lay it out for a while. It’s Fred Brigg’s souped up version of the Fulltone OCD. Here’s what he had to say about it over on his blog: The “Super OCD” has a few extra controls:– Firstly the “Bass” control … Read more
For #fuzzfriday I present to you the Flying Guillotine Fuzz, designed by Freppo over on FSB. Here’s what he had to say about it on his blog: The front end, tonestack and the output stage are all borrowed from the Big Muff, but the two Muff gainstages is replaced with a discrete op amp (by … Read more