Distortion
Aion Fx Antipode / Roland AF-60 Bee Gee
Aion Fx take on a pretty rare, forgotten and old fuzz box by Roland. Some useful addons is made. A gain control is added and a series resistor before the volume control is removed for more overall output. I added a tone selector switch for the tone control since the factory schematic and Aion’s schematic … Read more
Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat
Similar to the LA metal but this one is closer to a rat with its hard clipping diodes and two RC filters. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Applause Super Distortion
A quite rare distortion from late 80s or early 90s. And it is quite an interesting design with three cascaded op amp gain stages followed by hard clippers. The active “wave” control looks cool too… Schematic is avaiable HERE.
EHX/JHS Lizard Queen
Happy Fuzz Friday everyone! You probably didn’t miss this collaboration between Josh Scott and Mike Matthews, and because of the old school style of the big box version, it wasn’t to hard to trace. There’s still a few things we don’t know about the circuit, so have your sockets handy if you put this together … Read more
Guyatone SD2 Sustainer / HD2 Harmonic Distortion
mellasse sent me a schematic for an old Guytatone fuzz, Guyatone DS2 Sustainer. Looking at the schematic I noticed it was really similar to another Guyatone offering, HD Harmonic Distortion. The main difference is the tonestack, HD2 is scooped and SD2 is more mid focused. So this layout have a switch for both SD2 and … Read more
