Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Going into our 5th year online, the Briggs Unknown Fuzz has become the site’s 600th verified layout, thanks to Neil for verifying that one. When I did the first 100th Verified Layout! post I didn’t have any intention of doing them every 100. I was just amazed that we’d got it up to 100 and … Read more
As requested. I happen to have an original unit in metal enclosure, and to my ears this is definitely one of the greatest Ibanez overdrives. This layout is with your standard transistor pinout and with input buffer omitted. Reason for omitting the buffer is quite obvious… It is big, but should fit in B-box without … Read more
Hehee! Couldn’t help myself. It is in reality a TS9 🙂 If you want it 1:1, then use TA75558 and 2SC1815 transistors (mind the pinout!). You could of course build it with JRC4558D and check the output resistors to make it 808.. I still thought we needed at least one more Soundtank to our library. … Read more
Updated 6th February 2014 I have a TC Electronic G-Force and Eventide Eclipse in the parallel effects loop of my amp and use a rack mixer to keep them in parallel with each other, and so allow me to use them both 100% wet and so avoid having to digitize my dry signal. I do … Read more
Requested by Javi …. haha I don’t think I’m going to find any marketing guff so here is what Wikipedia says about it: The effect was used by Jimi Hendrix, and can be heard in guitar solos on the song “Purple Haze”. Hendrix preferred to call the device the “Octavio”, and it is often referred … Read more
It’s a modded Vox Repeat Percussion so more use for those 2N2646’s you stocked up on. Info about the original: The Hummingbird is, at heart, a hard and choppy tremolo. What comes out is more akin to vintage synth style oscillations. It’s core is based on the old Vox Repeat Percussion with several updates to … Read more
This is truly amazing. Madferrect cracked the ETI Struzz/Fuzz today and… We now have 500 verified layouts. It’s not that long since Mark wrote a note for 400. List of unverified ones is quite long too and there may be some interesting boards still unbuild. Seems like we have a few new active people doing … Read more
I did this as a bit of an experiment. I want to build one and this has always been one of those that would prefer to do on a PCB, but I thought I’d still like to put a layout together to see how small I could get it using my methods and as I … Read more
*Errors at the tone stack section have now been fixed…*Errors in the schematic (coupling caps at 0.068µ and not 0.68µ) have now been fixed on the layout… As requested. Paul Nelson‘s Orange Graphic MKII stomp box adaptation. I knew this one will get huge the minute i saw the schematic, but it turned out a … Read more
Requested by loads of people. I originally thought this would be a job for PCB, but after several more requests I had a think about it and estimated this may just about fit is a 1590B if I was careful. It turns out it will fit more comfortably than I expected. It will probably still … Read more