Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Originally sold as the Lemon Drop, then the ZII, and now the Series 7. Description of the Series 7 from the source: Designed to mimic the unique overdriven tones of the rare Vox 4&7 series amplifiers in a small and easy to use stompbox. An unknown amp to most, the 4&7 series amps were most famously used by the … Read more
Up next in the tube preamp series, I give you the Orange AD200B MkIII. This is the current production AD200B, which has a few changes compared to the MkI, which is why I figured it would be a good idea to make a layout for this version as well. Similar to the MkI, the MkIII … Read more
Up next in the tube preamp series, I give you the Orange AD200B MkI. Made in very limited numbers, only a few hundred if that, in 2001 these were made P2P on turretboard. Known for great clean, with a focused midrange, but has great grit with the gain cranked. Unlike the Sunn Model T, this … Read more
For those that don’t know I’m a huge lover of low end, and a worshiper of all things Sunn, in fact I’ve designed a turretboard layout to build a 1st Gen Sunn Model T ready to go as soon as I have the time to build it, which since I’m getting my Doctorate won’t be … Read more
Here is a layout for a very famous pedal. There were some noise issues with the original buffered version. I’ve added a true bypass version below.
Thought i’d post this here too in case someone wants to try it out. There’s an old development thread on FSB for this AC30 emulation circuit. There are number of schematic versions with slight differences, but the basics are the same for all of them. It is a nice high gainer with some noise content, … Read more
Here’s a challenge for those who want theirs in 1590B. Should fit, but it’ll be a challenge. From ROG: The English Channel was our first attempt to adapt the Vox AC-30 Top Boost amplifier for use as a guitar pedal. Released in 2004, the English Channel was a straightforward JFET implementation that was heavily based … 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
