Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Found this on TGP from the man himself when he was first releasing it: Basically, it’s an FY-6 with some extra bells and whistles in a “pedal board friendly” enclosure. The official name is the EFY-6, with “E” meaning “Enhanced”. The “Expander” knob has been renamed “Fuzz”, and the “Balance” knob has been renamed “Gain”, … Read more
Original description: “The TAFM was designed for low end heaviness with the ability to cut through a mix, to simply keep your guitar’s pick attack while having a really saturated fuzz-tone or just to have a subtle background fuzz behind your main keyboard sound. the TAFM excels at versatility and fitting in with almost any … Read more
“The Funk-A-Duck is an envelope control filter which can be used to produce a wide range of “synthetic” analog-ish sounds. The input causes a control signal to be generated, which goes up and down as the input signal loudness contour goes up and down. This in turn sweeps the filter frequency back and forth.“ Output … Read more
Original Info: The La Grange pedal is designed to emulate the famous British “Plexi” amplifiers from the mid 60’s. The wide variety of controls and switches, give you decades of legendary plexi tones, all the way up to the era of the modded amps from the late 80’s and throughout the 90’s. An independent boost … Read more
Here is a very nice sounding distortion by Menatone. I’ve drawn 2 layouts: – with biasing resistors – with biasing trimmers I’ve also added a charge pump for the 18V required. You can find the schematic on FSB’s original thread here. Original info: The Menatone None More Black is a homage to all of their … Read more
This was a request. It’s a diy Marshall emulator designed on Handmades Brasil forum. You can find the original schematic here.
Here is a layout for a classic pedal. I’ve drawn 2 versions: Vintage and Modern. There are 2 layouts for the Vintage: with and without output boost. I’ve added a boost to the Modern layout to avoid volume loss. You can find the original FSB thread here. 16/01/2017 Layout updated! I’ve changed the vintage layouts … Read more
Here is a layout for the older version of EH Black Finger. You can find the original FSB thread here. I’ve used Pedalgrinder slightly modified schematic on page 3. Some suggested high gain, some low gain transistors. Should test them both. … and the LM13700’s version:
Here is a verified layout for a quite unknown slapback-echo EH pedal. You can find the original FSB thread here. I’ve added an output boost to cover volume loss. I’ve found only one video around but didn’t sound great.
Here are some great new Tap-Tempo projects by Madbean. I prefer to add them all in the same post because they are meant to work together. You could use 1/8″ jack & plugs. You can find all info and his great (and cheap!) PCBs on his website here. The TapLFO is available from SmallBear here.