Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I thought I’d include the Bearfoot version of the Honey Bee, because I’ve heard quite a few people say they prefer it to the original. Unfortunately you can’t just change a few values using my BJF Honey Bee layout because there is an added resistor that needed cramming in. Still you can just build both … Read more
Information about the original: BJF design high headroom overdrive with adjustable low/mid EQ balance Premium quality classic blues/rock pedal that works very well with complex overdriven amp sound. This pedals is now offered as lower priced pcb-model or hand wired pedal. Both share the same specs and tone. It’s a low compression, high headroom overdrive … Read more
Info from Demeter about the original: “The Compulator was born after I solved an engineering problem of biasing an optical unit with only a single 9V battery. I had always loved the sound of optical compressors and designed and manufactured tube units in the pro audio market for a number of years. I wanted to … Read more
This is a modded version of the Sky Blue Overdrive, with a Tone control added, Texture control changed from an unnecessary dual to standard single 1K linear pot, and changes to the Z control to make it more useful. 1590B friendly if you can squeeze 5 pots in there. Info about the original: BJF design … Read more
Two modded versions of this pedal, both based on Madbean’s Uproar. The first is essentially the Uproar V2 with all the mods, but with the original Riot’s clipping options using a SP3T switch. The second is a modification to Madbean’s layout done by jymaze at freestompboxes, but again with the original Riot’s diode options. I … Read more
Great sounding pedal designed to emlulate a HiWatt amp, and so one for you Who fans out there. Again this was an awkward one to keep the width down, but it will fit nicely in a 1590B. Video of Geiri’s build of this layout: Update (23rd March 2012): Missed cut, use this latest layout
Another request. This was a bit of a pain to make 1590B friendly, especially with my aversion to standing resistors, but I just about managed it. Had to do a couple of things I don’t like to do, like the grey external link and the angled component avoiding link (make sure that one is insulated), … Read more
This is a layout for the Mid-Fi Electronics delay/fuzz/vibrato/modulation/unstable tape simulator/weird noise thing. Modified to include a switch to turn off the fuzz, leaving you with a clean weird noise thing :o) Geiri’s quick demo:
Another great sounding circuit here from Rick. His explanation: I’ve had the idea to try a PT2399 chorus ever since I modded my Clari into a Clari Cubed. The challenge with the PT2399 is to get the delay time as short as possible while still having some wiggle room for the LFO injected into pin … Read more
Request. The transistor may be difficult to get hold of but you can try other PNP silicons in its place. The datasheet suggests the hFE of the 2N4061’s was 90 – 330, but check the pinouts of your replacements and insulate/twist the pins if necessary to match the layout. The filter created by the 1n … Read more