TubeScreamer 808 Mini

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I dont need to say anything about this circuit. The Tubescreamer – a classic circuit developed in the 70s – evolved from the Boss OD1 – is a simple, transparent and great Overdrive pedal! Challenge was to make it fit in a tiny 1590A enclosure. Schematic  Build For this project ive used a Screamin Baby … Read more

Multiplex Echo Machine

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General The Multiplex Echo Machine is a Tape Echo simulator Pedal. Its basically a dual digital delay with an analog sound. So two delay channels are mixed together (Delay1 and Delay2 knobs) The Pedal features 3 different modes and a speed footswitch (to increase the delay time steadily) There is also a modulation addon (with … Read more

Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive

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Blackstone… The Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive is a Pedal developed by a company named Blackstone Appliances. It is total different than other overdrives, and is not based on any circuit i know. It has a fuzzy sound on some settings, and it sounds smooth and creamy and provides great sustain Schematic My Build Ive used a … Read more

Fulldrive (Deadringer)

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General The fulldrive is an overdrive pedal originally developed by fulltone. its basically a tube screamer circuit but features mosfet clipping and a boost function for additional gain the boost is no separate channel, it just increases the gain pot and therefore the overall circuits gain That means, the boost section only works when the … Read more

Vox Clyde McCoy Wah

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Vintage Wah… So I already built a weener wah, which is based on the clyde mccoy But I wanted to built a Clyde McCoy Wah as possible to the vintage specs as I could get. And I wanted to keep it simple, not extra switches etc… I used the schematic from fuzz central: http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/mccoy.php Schematic … Read more

Maestro Phaser / Madbean Stage Fright

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General The Maestro Phaser is an phaser effect from the 70s with an very interesting enclosure design. knobs are on the side of the pedals, and have numbers on it, indicating the value. http://www.modezero.com/maestro-stage-phaser.htm Manual of the original: https://wp.pedalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/maestro_phaser.pdf The Phaser has 2 controls: “Balls” (which is basically Depth) and “Speed” (Rate of the phasing … Read more

Jordan Bosstone Fuzz

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Bosstone… The Jordan Bosstone is a Fuzz circuit was first released in 1967. Its a trebly fuzz, with a fat, thick and saturated tone. The first version of the Bosstone was designed for directly plugging it into the guitar. Its consists of 2 transistors, one NPN and one PNP Heres a cool little readup of … Read more

Boss CE-2 Chorus

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General The Pork Barrel is a project from Madbeanpedals and based on the Boss Chorus CE2. Since the CE2 is a rare pedal in the meantime, its a good possibility to do it yourself 🙂 Schematic My Build  The Pork Barrel can be built into a 1590B box, eventhough its a thight fit. I built … Read more

Electric Mistress / Current Lover

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General The Electric Mistress is a Flanger / Chorus modulation pedal developed by EHX (Electro Harmonix). Basically its a flanger, but has some chorus / vibrato tones too on some settings. Very versatile cool modulation pedal. It can also create robot / metallic kinda sounds 🙂 Project The Current Lover project from MadbeanPedals is a … Read more

Xotic AC/RC Booster / ACDC Drive

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General The Xotic AC / RC booster is a Tubescreamer based circuit. Instead of the Tubescreamer like frequency filter tone control (which only filter the mids), the RC/AC has a Baxandall tone stack. This enables to filter the high and bass frequencies. The schematic of the RC and AC booster is basically the same, but … Read more