Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Well as usual just finished a round of exams, so it’s time to start posting the layouts I did when I was taking study breaks. This time I’m going to space them out so there’s not a sudden flood. First up the 18v Colorsound Power Boost. Same topography as the Colorsound Overdriver, but ran at … Read more
The Colorsound Fuzz-Wah, or to be exact the Colorsound Wow-Fuzz! A new version of a funk-tastic old timer. The original 1970’s two transistor silicon distortion stage delivers the fuzz and the classic inductor based Colorsound wah circuit gives you the wow! Ah, the inductor based circuit you say. Been awhile since Colorsound did that, right? … Read more
Well as promised I’ve taken the and made layouts for 7 of some of the most desirable vintage wahs. You’ll notice that they all look damn near identical, and that’s because they’re all based on the same circuit with some component differences. So instead of doing my usual description for each, I figured I’ll let … Read more
From kitrae THE COLORSOUND SUPA TONEBENDER – By 1973 Sola was using the Colorsound brand on its pedals, now built in wider “jumbo” sized enclosures. The Tone Bender was upgraded and moved into this new enclosure. The Colorsound Supa Tonebender (pronounced Super) featured a new Silicon transistor circuit that had no relationship to the previous … Read more
Request. This is just to add the requested Black Arts Toneworks Ritual Fuzz to the library, but i just couldn’t resist rewriting Dr. Tony Balls’ “Universal One-Knob Silicon Fuzz Layout” and adding the Black Arts’ version of this classic to it. So here are 5 currently known adaptations of the almighty 1-Knobber. Adventurous minds could … Read more
A few people were after this one and as it’s pretty close to Colorsound Bass Fuzz, i decided to tweak the layout for a Jumbo. Notes on Phillip Bryant’s schematic note that this circuit is apparently 1:1 with Colorsound 3-knob Tonebender re-issue..
This is per the original schematic, not a reissue. I made the transistor pinouts to match your basic transistors and i think that 2N5088s should work just fine in there. Original units have 2SC945s in them, so mind the pinouts and twist the legs if you want to use those. Medferret’s demo clip of his … Read more
Well. It was either the unused row or two resistors with 7.5mm pitch. Still pretty compact. The clipping diodes are placed so that you can pretty easily take them to a switch and play around with schottkys, LEDs….
It was surprisingly hard to find a description about this ’90s IC powered re-issue. Well. So hard that i didn’t find any. Some demo videos are floating around the web….
Request, this one will fit in a 1590A if you’re feeling brave. Info about the (re-issued) original: Non-harsh-oscillating-processing. For a relatively high gain silicon fuzz circuit this thing is smooth, like real smooth, a soft smooth you could say. Make no mistake this blue cyclops will fart-out a chewy smoke laden fuzz cloud you can … Read more