Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The spiel on this slightly modded Krank Distortus Maximus: If you’re tired of the metal distortion pedals mass produced in Asia, designed by guys in their late 50′s that have no idea how metal sounds TODAY, then you NEED to hear the Body Rot II. In case you hadn’t noticed, metal is what we do… … Read more
30th October 2014 – Put on hold pending investigation :o) Info about the original: The Earthquaker Devices Monarch Overdrive is an FET, all discrete dirt machine that will get you some truly vintage and organic overdrive. The Monarch Overdrive is based on a certain UK hard rock amp’s input stage that shares the same color … Read more
Noticed this one and thought i’d do a quickie. Here you go with Joe Davisson’s improvements on the classic fuzz face. Note from Analog Alchemy website: Placing a diode at the input of a silicon Fuzz-Face type circuit improves the tone by preventing saturation of Q1. Adjust the 5.6k resistor until Q2’s collector is near … Read more
Another one that was missing from the library. Original units call for 2M pot for the overdrive control, but as the demo below suggest, the middle position of that knob should be mild enough. So i see no harm in using 1M pot for that instead. That’ll give you the latter half of the sweep. … Read more
And I may as well add this one as a separate layout so we know what versions the comments are based on. This changes a cap value and adds an Effect Level pot to the CE-2. If you want to add an Effect Level pot to the guitar CE-2, just use this layout and swap … Read more
Modded to include a depth pot instead of the switch used in the original, giving you variable depth control rather than just two preset levels. Not the best looking layout with too many links and cuts, but it’s a means to an end, and it’s hard to avoid when you have 4 ICs, 3 transistors … Read more
[Updated 1st August 2014 – The schematic I did this from by UngodFX contained an error around the mids pot and mid voicing switch which stopped the switch from working correctly. The layout now posted corrects that error. For anyone who has already built this and needs any assistance in adapting it, post a message … Read more
John did a great version of this using vactrols but I wanted a version using simple LDRs so it was available to build for the maximum number of people. I would have preferred to have done this with a single LED with all 6 LDRs surrounding it, but it’s too awkward to do neatly with … Read more
I noticed we didn’t have this one in the library yet. The circuit is rather interesting mash of different bits and pieces. TS-styled clipping amp with serious sag called “Volts”, followed by two fuzz face style (with some features from the bazzfuss) circuits in series, which is followed by Big Muff-styled tone control. Not your … Read more
