Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Back from holiday and thought I’d do a new layout to try to cheer myself up after feeling the difference in temperature :o) The BJFE/Bearfoot Arctic White Fuzz is YAFF but certainly has been souped up and sounds great to me. I’m sure it will be as popular as Bjorn’s other effects. Thanks to Matt … Read more
I did this as a bit of an experiment. I want to build one and this has always been one of those that would prefer to do on a PCB, but I thought I’d still like to put a layout together to see how small I could get it using my methods and as I … Read more
Info about the Bjorn designed original: The Baby Pink Booster is a booster with clean transparent boost and very fine Line Driver in bypass position. It sports adjustable and switchable boosts ranging from unity to approximately 8 times or +18 dB, which is the practical limit with the signal levels and supply voltage range used … Read more
Requested by a few people now and I do want to keep the bassists happy too. In tomorrows blog I’m going to show you how to make pizza boxes, especially for drummers. Just kidding! :o) Although the hand built BJF and Mad Professor effects can hurt your wallet, with the new PCB range out they’ve … Read more
Info from the builder: The Dyna Red is a classic distortion that immediatley sounds familiar. What sets the DRD apart is that it also manages to mimic the FEEL of a healthy plexibasketweaver. While it is known for its crunchy classic rock distortion – it also has a very tasty ‘just above driven’ sound that … Read more
Info about the original: BJF design distortion pedal for guitar The new Mad Professor – Stone Grey Distortion (SGD) is a modern high-gain distortion pedal with unparallelled clarity and definition. This pedal was developed for high gain applications and specifically for clarity at heavy distortion levels. The Stone Grey Distortion is unique in that it … Read more
I thought I’d include the Bearfoot version of the Honey Bee, because I’ve heard quite a few people say they prefer it to the original. Unfortunately you can’t just change a few values using my BJF Honey Bee layout because there is an added resistor that needed cramming in. Still you can just build both … Read more
Information about the original: BJF design high headroom overdrive with adjustable low/mid EQ balance Premium quality classic blues/rock pedal that works very well with complex overdriven amp sound. This pedals is now offered as lower priced pcb-model or hand wired pedal. Both share the same specs and tone. It’s a low compression, high headroom overdrive … Read more
This is a modded version of the Sky Blue Overdrive, with a Tone control added, Texture control changed from an unnecessary dual to standard single 1K linear pot, and changes to the Z control to make it more useful. 1590B friendly if you can squeeze 5 pots in there. Info about the original: BJF design … Read more
Great sounding pedal designed to emlulate a HiWatt amp, and so one for you Who fans out there. Again this was an awkward one to keep the width down, but it will fit nicely in a 1590B. Video of Geiri’s build of this layout: Update (23rd March 2012): Missed cut, use this latest layout