Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Old DIY classic with its roots pointing to rec.music.makers.guitar newsgroup and the year 1995. Briggs has posted the newsgroup message on his blog. So here it is. Quick and mean. Should be easy enough to be built in fifteen minutes. Just match those transistors. I know what the first comment will be. So don’t bother … Read more
Not sure what to call this. It has “Booster” written on the original unit, but still i think it’s rather closer to an overdrive than a booster. It’s definitely not a fuzz. Either way, it does sound pretty nice in the demos. There are other layouts for this circuit around the internets, but i thought … Read more
This looks kind of familiar. Let me think about it ….. Oddfellow Effects Caveman Drive … No just can’t remember, it will come to me. OK I nicked that joke from Dr Boogey on FSB, and thanks to him for the trace. One thing I must say is that in this vid it sounds a … Read more
[10th July Layout now fixed and verified, many thanks to John who bought and traced an original] Requested by a few people. The juvenile in me was so tempted to call this one the Huge Pork Sword, but thought I should start acting my age :o) This is a fairly big circuit for an overdrive … Read more
The Kill Kill Filter is a dual filter pedal with a semi-truck of attitude! 2 identicle eq’s can be switched back and forth on the fly for an endless seeming changing sounds as you play. Create a new lead sound and then another! Blast in a solo! Chunk out on a heavy riff! You call … Read more
And another, being a classic rock guy this one appeals to me a lot! I can’t find a lot of info about the source of the schematic, but looking at the JCM800 2204 scheme it is extremely close. As usual, use the trimmers to set the JFET drains (other than Q4) to between 4.5 and … Read more
Emulation of the Soldano SLO 100 by GT Labs and including the suggested mods by Brymus. I’ve never really even used a presence control as they do nothing for me, and so I’d probably omit it altogether in this and the other recent amp emulations to reduce the number of pots, but I’ve left it … Read more
Thanks to Kit Rae for the schematic. I’ve seen a few schematics for this and the Kit Rae one has an extra connection between Filter 3 and the base of Q4 (pin 13). Maybe you want to try making that connection and see what you think. Info about the original thanks to the Wayback Machine … Read more
Request, layout for the Leegazzy Carvin Legacy emulator by Antonio Pelaez. I’ve shown a big axial cap as a filter in this one because there was plenty of space at the top and I have them exactly the size shown, but as always it will work just as well with a radial electrolytic, and you … Read more
