Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Another request. This was a bit of a pain to make 1590B friendly, especially with my aversion to standing resistors, but I just about managed it. Had to do a couple of things I don’t like to do, like the grey external link and the angled component avoiding link (make sure that one is insulated), … Read more
I thought I’d post a separate thread about this with it being a totally new layout to avoid confusion during comments in the thread. A few things about the last layout irked me and so I’ve done a fresh layout which ended up 1 column narrower and so makes it less tight in a 1590B. … Read more
How many Big Muff variants is this now? :o) Manufacturers info: BJF design versatile fuzz pedal Hand-made in Finland premium quality fuzz pedal. Mad Professor Fire Red Fuzz (FRF) is a fuzz pedal that is easy to play with long sustain and lot of tone variations. The pedal has a compressed, deep effect to allow … Read more
Mad Professor’s “Honey Bee”-esque offering. Manufacturer’s info: Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive (SHOD) is a super touch sensitive medium gain overdrive pedal. This pedals is now offered as lower priced pcb-model or hand wired pedal. Both share the same specs and tone. It is designed to overdrive distorted amplifiers and give dynamically controlled light overdrive … Read more
A nice versatile booster here by Bjorn, with switchable buffered or true bypass switching. I have kept the buffer separate so those who just intend to use it true bypass don’t have to bother with the extra components or board size. Manufacturers info: BJF design guitar booster/treble booster pedal with master volume Mad Professor Ruby … Read more
Slightly modified to give you an overall volume control but if you want the standard unit, just swap the 5K1 Volume 1 resistor for a 12K and solder between IC1 pins 6 and 7. Again it’s small enough to fit in a 1590B with some careful measuring. Updated: Delay 1 connects to the PT2399 pin … Read more
Here’s a layout for another sought after pedal by Bjorn. and a slightly more compact version
I did this one a while ago and it has been posted on a number of forums but just realised I haven’t shared it here yet. Update 22nd June 2017: Some information that was very generously shared by Bjorn about this circuit Hi Mark, For your blog: The original BJF SBEQ used 2N3819 transistors selected … Read more
Thought I’d post this one too as I know the pedal has a lot of fans. This one is verified and sounds great, especially good for thickening up single coils I found.