Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This was a request that came in from Cody from the They Remained Silent blog. It’s an emulator of the Laney Super Group 100 watt head designed by Heuller Pinson (MallerMB). I would assume you should bias the JFETs to ~4.5v then adjust from there. Don’t have a ton of info on this other than … Read more
Often imitated by boutique builders, the ROG Supreaux Deux overdrive is an old Supro 16T in pedal form. The Deux is the 2nd go at this circuit and offers several improvements over the original design. It runs off 18v, so I’ve added an onboard charge pump converting +9v to just under +18v. You can use … Read more
This is a great sounding Orange amp emulator by EQD. The EQ controls allow you to boost those frequencies instead of just rolling them off. Lots of big burly Orange tone in this FET based circuit. I’ve laid it out so you can board-mount all 4 pots from the solder-side of the board using right … Read more
The Blues Breaker was designed to emulate the vintage 2×12 Marshall combo, and was introduced by Marshall in 1991. Great at pushing a clean amp into breakup and sounds great with single coils. There has since been a Bluesbreaker II, which many claim to be inferior to the original. This layout is for the original … Read more
One of Sean’s many Electra Distortion variants, the Les Lius delivers both Tweed Deluxe and Fender Twin tones. The 3-way toggle switches between different clipping options and the 2nd footswitch acts like a separate gain channel. I couldn’t find much info on what JFET is used for Q2, but I would imagine any DSG pinout … Read more
Here’s Wampler’s Plexi-Drive, another Marshall-in-a-box pedal. The original unit uses a 470µ capacitor for power filtering, which seems like overkill to me. I’ve replaced that with a 100µ cap that should do the job just fine. Some build reports on FSB say that the 15k resistors from 9V to the drains of the J201s might … Read more
One of the many Plexi-in-a-pedal options out there, the Marvel Drive has parallel input stages allowing you to create your own blend between the normal “channel” and the treble “channel.” Gearmandude can show you better than I can try to explain it:
This is one of the many variations of the old Electra Distortion. Sounds like a cranked Tweed 5E3 amp. The original Lovepedal Woodrow has just a volume knob, but it’s easy (and useful) to add a gain control. If you just want one knob, connect Gain 3 to Gain 2.