Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Perhaps best known as the Analog Man Astrotone Fuzz now, this started life as the Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx and the same circuit also appears in the Astro Amps Astrotone Fuzz – which is a supremely cooler name, which is maybe why it has stuck. The original has 47n caps on this input and output, … Read more
I saw this Gray Bench teardown video the other night, and the values looked a little different to what I’d seen on other Sun Face schematics, so here it is. If you don’t feel like watching the video, the key difference: 51k resistor on the collector of Q1. The rest is all pretty standard for … Read more
The Analog Man Beano Boost takes the classic Rangemaster treble booster and adds a very useful function — a switched input capacitor that widens the tonal range beyond the original’s treble boost. Because it’s a single-transistor germanium circuit, the choice of transistor does shape the tone and clipping character, especially at higher gain settings. That … Read more
A nice simple one – the Analog Man Astrotone, which is pretty much a stock Astrotone, with some mods to make it worthwhile. The original circuit is a bit thin and is said to only sound good with the volume right up, making it too loud to use in most situations. The Analogman mods fix this, … Read more
A nice easy one – the Analog Man Sun Face Fuzz, which is, of course, just a fuzz face with a couple of trimmers. One for bias, the other to help pull back on the input level, as a kind of false volume pot cleanup. Yes, it is a big layout for a fuzz face… … Read more
The Sun Faces evil twin. Buzzy, raspy and no clean up at all! The transistors part numbers remains unknown but the Hfe should be almost almost twice as high compared to the usual recommended germanium Fuzz Face gain. More info HERE.
Per request. There are a few schematics to choose from so I decided to use the one from Fuzzdog which has an internal trimpot so you can fine tune the sweep of the Sun Dial control. BenSpinks shared the values from his RCA Mid Gain Sun Face. They differs quite a … Read more
This one is basically two OD circuits in one enclosure so I went with two separate board for the option to only have one in a smaller enclosure. The only differencies between the two channels is the value of the gain limiting resistor at the gain control, the hard clipping diodes and possibly the op … Read more
Analog Man’s take on the old and quite rare Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxxx/Astrotone Fuzz. Bigger input and output caps and a resistor swap at the tone control should make this a different animal compared to the vintage pedals which suffered from lack of bottom end and a useful tone control. Various transistors has been used, … Read more
