Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Request. This effect needs a 3V supply and is a positive ground effect so I’ve included a 3.3V regulator and an ICL7660S to provide the -3V (ish). You can omit that and power it with a pair of AA batteries or standalone 3V power supply if you prefer, but if you do remember to wire … Read more
Thanks to Pawel for his schematic posted on FSB. I can’t find much info on this one or clips, but it is very close to being a Foxx Tone Machine so that should give you a good idea what to expect. Pawel traced two units with the second being slightly different, using BC109 transistors, the … Read more
As pretty much everyone must know by now this pedal was a re-badged Joyo Ultimate Overdrive with 3 resistors added, and that in turn is a very lightly modded OCD. But the TGP favourite Freekish Blues Alpha Drive does still have a lot of fans who will argue to their back teeth that the sound … Read more
This is a really great sounding fuzz and definitely something different from the norm, so props to Resonant Electronic Design. You’ll notice on the layout there’s a cap marked ??? and as you can probably guess the guy who did the trace didn’t get the value of that one. Looking at it though I suspect … Read more
Thanks to Matt for his schematic for this buffered Timmy. Info about the original: The Mayflower is a true bypass, midrange overdrive pedal that falls in-between the Voyager’s low gain preamp settings and the Iron Horse’s full and harmonically rich distortion. The Mayflower boasts a transparent, midrange signal that is great for cutting through or … Read more
This question comes up frequently and many of the articles you read about it online can be a little difficult to get your head around sometimes, so I thought I’d just do a short write up on negative and positive ground effects and the problems associated with mixing them. I am writing this in a … Read more
After checking a few things out, this turns out to be slightly modded Maxon DS-830 (thanks johnk for noticing). The 47p, 10n and 180n cap values are measured on board, so i’d suggest using sockets for those and see what values work the best for you. Anyway. This should be safe to build. Playing around … Read more
