Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
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
Thanks to Miro for his great work with the trace for this one. This is more an adaptation than a verbatim clone, but will give you the same results. The original used a CD4066 quad bilateral switch to do the Tone Wicker switching which seems very much like an unnecessary inclusion when you consider all … Read more
Since we’re posting tiny circuits today, i thought i’d post a recently traced booster. No input cap, no power filtering or any other modern day trinkets. Tiny booster with outside the box thinking in design. Thanks for trace to Bernardduur at FSB.
Following a couple of threads in the forum where people had oscillation problems with certain effects that disappeared when a buffered pedal was placed before them, I said I’d do a post on here with a few different compact buffers that people could try tucked away in the box to place in series before the … Read more
Had drawn this a long time ago and even build a few for my personal use. AMZ buffers are known to be very good in sound quality, so the splitter is that too. It is very modular and it can have as many output channels as needed. The most common use would still be to … Read more
Traced by our very own Miro (nice job buddy), and even though this is displaying an unusual lack of originality for EHX, I’m completely prepared to forgive Mike Matthews simply because it will upset Fulltone which is never a bad thing for me. Info about this Voodoo Lab Overdrive derivative: Rich, overtone laden sound that … Read more