Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Request, and as it was a quicky I thought I may as well get it out of the way. A tweaked positive ground Fuzz Face using Russian germanium transistors. Being positive ground as usual I would suggest trying it with a negative voltage inverter to supply the -9V and allow you to use a 0V … Read more
There are few manufacturers that raise an interest to simply go and get the original. I have no idea who the person behind Idiotbox is, but his designs, workmanship and artwork do please me to some degree. Plus his pricing seems to be on solid ground too. This one sounds particularly good. It has some … Read more
Yes. It is big. I’ve omitted the complex power supply, but left most of the noise reduction measures in tact. Transistor controlled LED circuitry is also gone. With dual gang gain pot and the board size, this will be a tricky but doable fit in 1590B. Marketing spiel from ten years ago: Attention: Guitarist who … Read more
Yup. Vox made TS. I omitted the overly complex power supply section and transistor based LED operation. Input and output buffers are 2SC2389 in the original units. You could also use those instead of 2N5088/2N5089. Just mind the pinout. Schematic i have has the output pulldown resistor at 1K, which seems way too small for … Read more
The mellower little brother of CM Heavy Drive. Original units share the PCB with each other, but there are number of differences on the circuits.
Just noticed we didn’t have any CM designs on the library yet. Demo vid i found isn’t the greatest quality, but it has a Dinosaur Jr. riff, followed by some White Stripes, so i just had to post it. Made me feel like 25 all over again. Pedal seems like a nice distortion unit too. … Read more
Request, thanks to PedalBlotter for his hard graft in tracing the circuit. This is a bit of an awkward circuit to try to find a good middle point to do it on two levels (like my Muff layouts) and have an even spread of components on the board, so I’ve just done it in a … Read more
And the standard version using the more widely available and cheaper BTDR2 bricks. This is set to be around unity but if you want a boost then experiment with the 12K resistor. 18K will give you a slight boost.
Request. This is a 1776 Effects project with more info available here. Check out their other projects and PCBs available at their store: The Rub-a-Dub Deluxe utilizes the new Accutronics BTDR-3H. The BTDR-3H allows the reverb decay to be adjustable. In addition, the Rub-a-Dub Deluxe also adds a tone control (based on Culturejam’s Box of … Read more
I’ll add a Diamond Compressor layout at some point, but this one was a must for me and I’m surprised it’s taken me this long to do the layout. This is Fred Brigg’s stripped down version of the Diamond, which is essentially the same but without the Tilt EQ section of the circuit or the … Read more