Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Menatone, well known for their “Amp in a Can” stuff. Well I’ve had a few requests for a few of the Menatone boxes and thanks to the freestompboxes.org forum here is the “King of the Britons”. Marshall-esqe uber distortion, give it a try – I did and quite enjoyed it. I built up the RunOffGroove.com … Read more
A one knob super amp tone generating machine? Cranked 5E3 Tweed? Just a simple Electra Distortion if ya ask me 😉 And I know you didn’t….. A big thanks to LovePedalDetective at the freestompboxes forum for this one. Demo video:
You guys are what makes Revolution Deux a worthwhile project. What I want to know is which pedals you all want to see on the site? I’ll then do my homework and see if I can cobble together the info that I need to create a few projects for the “most wanted” stompboxes. To vote … Read more
Hi there, I’ve had so many requests to build up the “Son of a Clay Jones Overdrive” (Which I will refer to as the SOCJOD from now on) pedal for you guys I’ve decided to produce a small run of them, 9 units to be exact. Basically the SOCJOD is a Tubescreamer-808 Overdrive circuit built … Read more
Here’s another delightful Lovepedal design for you. Again produced from the freestompboxes cauldren of joy! As we can all now see it is a simple 386 power amp chip distortion device, been around for years yet still pleasing to the ears. Check out the demo video; Thanks to all of freestompboxes for the research work … Read more
Well here is a cool little feed put together by Modman from the freestompboxes forum. Check it out if you want to find a few little goodies 🙂http://www.freestompboxes.org/feed/pimp.html
Here is another one for you, the sought after Burns Buzzaround fuzz pedal: Full on uber-fuzz researched and revealed by a number of stompbox experts around the world. Dragonfly of Soulkitchen FX (Check out the crazy boxes!), David Main of D*A*M FX in the UK and various others all contributed to this great piece of … Read more
BJF (The designer behind the Mad Professor stuff spoke about his LGW (Little Green Wonder) pedal over on the freestompboxes forum. A schematic was provided: As Bjorn pointed out there was a 1M resistor missing from the gate of the input buffers FET but I have now fixed that on the above schematic. Here are … Read more
This thing is said to emulate a 69 Marshall Plexi 50W on 10… Hmmm, OK – Here’s the scheme : It looks like this one was drawn by the great matsumin, one of the legendary Japanese DIY bloggers! Check it out, it’s a fairly simple build! Here is the original PDF Manual: Link! Here’s a … Read more
Had a few requests for this, everyone knows what it does and everyone seems to like it. Anyway, here’s the description from the Fulltone website: “AMPS… if you’ve ever owned a GREAT amp, like a Marshall 18 watt, a VOX AC15 or a Marshall JTM45, and if you have a place where you can crank … Read more