Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
VitaliiBobrov is doing an amazing job in tracing Exar pedals. This Polish brand has some decent tones and lots of room for tweaking and trying things out. Once again, try to tweak the values at the inverting input to ground. And try on a different pair of diodes for clippers, etc. No demos around for … Read more
Found this circuit from the DEFX files and thought this to be quite interesting. Discontinued circuit with noise for days. From the source: The GREEN MONSTER septic fuzz (GM2)is an effect pedal to create a septic distortion. Characterized by a dirty, broken and rotten sound. Bad handling! GREEN MONSTER is back with four knobs! There … Read more
Nice, small and has room for tweaking – i just love to do these modern, super cheap china circuits.. Layout is according to fsb-trace by CheapPedaCollector – who does amazing job with pedals like this one.
It’s december already! From Dylan159’s Unreleased circuits on FSB:I’m not done with fuzz faces it seems. This one’s goal is to keep all the classic cranked gain tones while making the ill-treated gain knob more useful. This is accomplished by moving the gain control to the first stage. When maxed, you have a classic, low … Read more
Hi yall. Noticed a week or so back that it’s been exactly ten years since my first post here. To celebrate the occasion, i thought i’d post something. There’s been a number of slower years along the way, but so it goes. Life has it’s ups and downs. To quote one of the more interesting … Read more
Another damn nice trace that’s up on FSB, by Joe from Grey Bench Electronics. This one seems to be a very limited run distortion from Barber, built around the time of the millennium madness.
Here’s Jackson Audio’s MOSFET boost, the Amp Mode. Pretty simple MOSFET circuit with a BJT output buffer. Easy fit in a 1590B.
There was a great post from Grey Bench on FSB, tracing this ten year old Stafford Maxon circuit that i found interesting back in a day, but couldn’t source a schematic back then. This is per original, using only a half of a dual opamp and utilizing a 12×21 board.
George Giblet did a trace (and some guesswork on the cap values) on FSB a few years back. The cap values might not be 100% per original, but according to George, those should be at least close enough. There are a few ideas on this late 60’s circuit that are not present on every single … Read more
From America’s Pedal:DOD introduced the Corrosion distortion pedal (FX70C) in mid-1997. With basically the same circuit as the FX70 Metal X, the Corrosion featured a heavily oxidized metal finish and no paint except red (1997-98) or black (1999) graphics near the control knobs; the first version with red graphics appears to have been more rare. … Read more