Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Catalinbread WIIO is a Hiwatt amp emulator specifically going for the sound of Pete Townsend’s Hiwatts on the Live at Leeds album. (Throwing this and a Univox SuperFuzz in the same box would be a must if you’re a big fan of the Who…) The topology of the circuit (cascaded MOSFETs) is similar to … Read more
Here’s an older design from Catalinbread, but an interesting design as usual. It’s a preamp/boost with a wide range of tone shaping capabilities. Schematic can be found here.
The Catalinbread Sagrado Poblano Picoso is a bass version of Jack Orman’s (AMZ) MOSFET Booster. Really the only difference between the two are a couple cap values. So if you want to build the AMZ version, sub the 470µF cap with a 100µF and the 220nF with a 100nF. Should be a pretty easy fit … Read more
Damn i like this brand. Cool, great sounding designs and lots of them. And i was surprised the schematic was up at their site. I only have a few originals, but i’m strongly tempted to get more.. Info from Catalinbread: We combined the best elements of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion … Read more
I’ve gotten a few requests for the Mk. III and found several good stock layouts on FSB, so I thought I’d go with a slightly modified version of the DLS Mk. III. This has an added presence control, as well as an onboard charge pump. It’s designed for use in a 125B with top mounted … Read more
Got a request for this one. It’s Catalinbread’s take on the classic Big Muff, and therefore an excellent layout for Fuzz Friday. The biggest difference between this and a regular BMP is the tone section, where the typical BMP tone stack has been replaced with a Baxandall 2-band EQ. There is also an extra gain … Read more
I know there have been veros around for a while but I wanted to add this project to the main page. It’s basically a Rams Head Muff with an added Baxandall tone control. You can find original FSB thread and schematic here. It should easily fit it in 1590B size box. Crank both treble and … Read more
For the final Fuzz Friday of the year, here’s another one from Catalinbread. It’s a fairly unique design and much like the Hyperpak, it uses a 4007 chip and will fit in a 1590a.
Here’s an older design from Catalinbread (now discontinued). The Hyperpak is based around a CD4007UBE to generate a wide array of tones. Be sure to use the unbuffered version of 4007. Shouldn’t be too hard to fit into a 1590a like the originals.
Here’s a versatile boost from Catalinbread. It has its roots in the classic Rangemaster treble booster, but with a silicon transistor, the Range pot varying the input capacitance, and the Heat pot controlling some of the gain. Check out the thread on FSB for discussion, schematic, etc. This is laid out for board mounted pots … Read more