Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info about the “original” modified Timmy: A firm natural overdrive with a pleasant silky sustain. An easy to handle overdrive with great sustain without any unnatural compression. It keeps the characteristics of the tones that the guitars naturally produce. The Jan Ray reproduces that great sustaining punchy clear tones of the blackface Fender amps from … Read more
Positive ground effect so as usual consider using the negative voltage inverter. Info from Analog Mike about his germanium original: We are now making these in our own cases, as the Analog Man Sun Face . They are hand-built in the USA in small gold boxes, with our own USA made SUNFACE circuit board, which … Read more
Info from Analog Mike about his silicon original: We have some BC108 and BC183 silicon transistors, and have been making silicon Sunfaces for several years now. The BC108 are in small metal cans while the BC183 are plastic. Silicon fuzzfaces came out in about 1969. Dallas Arbiter used both of these types in their Fuzz … Read more
This is per the original schematic, not a reissue. I made the transistor pinouts to match your basic transistors and i think that 2N5088s should work just fine in there. Original units have 2SC945s in them, so mind the pinouts and twist the legs if you want to use those. Medferret’s demo clip of his … Read more
This is a great sounding phaser so I thought I’d still do it even though it probably doesn’t fit with my philosophy of when I would and wouldn’t use vero. Similar in some ways to the Phase 90 but I haven’t seen a layout for this one and so decided it would be a good … Read more
Per request. The original design had couple of things i had to mod to get this stripboard and/or 1590B friendly. First, there are two dual opamps in the original box, and they are used in quite peculiar manner. The first one is TL072, which has other half as input buffer for bypassed signal and other … Read more
The Green Screamer is an overdrive pedal that produces a dynamic range of smooth and warm overdrive tones associated with vintage tube amps. Robust build quality and rugged engineering ensure that the Green Screamer will stand up to the abuse of life on the road. Other features include hardwire bypass, LED operation indicator, non-slip rubber … Read more
Jack Orman’s DIY classic that has been inspiring many builders and businessmen alike over the years. Simple as Fuzz Face, but very big, strong, lively sound. There must be tens or even hundreds of variations around, just as there must be tens or even hundreds layouts around. Still we didn’t have this one covered yet. … Read more
Another milestone hit, the 400th verified layout which is really amazing. 300 layouts verified since last March! Thanks to everyone who has contributed to verifications and/or discussions, and to Miro who has really helped me out and is on fire at the moment churning out layouts like a machine. We have so many regular contributors … Read more
