Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here is a serie of tube effect pedals by the German Tube-Town which were requested a while back. There aren’t videos available but you can find all infos, schematics and pcbs on their website here. (The Pepper Shredder has been discontinued but it’s supposed to be a tube distortion based on the Twin Valvecaster)
The BYOC Confidence Booster is just a simple linear boost and buffer. The only change i made was moving the trimmer offboard to make a pot. Figured this would be a nice easy project for those that want to get started building pedals.
Here is a layout for the rare Schumann Lion distortion. Original brief description: “The LION is a distortion device and a clean booster with two complete circuits that can be mixed independently. Has a bypass footswitch and boost footswitch that gives extra distortion. Great for bass — distortion that doesn’t cut out the low end. … Read more
A small Germanium Booster/OD. Original using NPN Germanium Transistors. Since PNP Germaniums are more readily available, cheaper, and reliable here’s a PNP version. Remember you can NOT daisy chain this with NPN devices. And here’s a layout that’s a touch larger, but includes an onboard inverter to give you the ability to daisy chain it. … Read more
Taken directly from BYOC. Possibly the World’s cleanest, most transparent boost. It utilizes the 7660S charge pump’s ability to take a standard 9v power supply and output both +18v and -9v. The op-amp based boost circuit takes advantage of the whopping 27v differential to produce 20dB with an amazing amount of headroom. It doesn’t matter … Read more
This day had to come. Recently i was asked if i could build a vintage sounding treble booster for modern pedal board. Sure. Why not. And quick looking around showed that there were not that many (!?) rangemaster modernizations around. Or yes there are, but most of them do have something wrong with them – … Read more
Continuing with the layouts I made that day. Here’s the fifth version of the dirty boots. It’s a germanium overdrive based on the first version, there’s an additional pre-gain pot that controls ho much signal is entering the effect.
So the other day I was looking over some of the info RnFR has posted on Apocalypse Audio and came across some pedal designs that caught my eye. I ended up sitting and doing a couple layouts for a few of them. Here’s the sixth version of the dirty boots. It’s a germanium overdrive based … Read more
Madbean’s 2015 version of his FatPants boost. No videos available at the moment.
