Distortion
Vesta Fire / Reagun / Nadine’s Distortion
Not that long ago, Manfred traced his Reagun Distortion unit and posted the results on FSB. These pedals were sold as Vesta Fire, Nadine’s and Reagun brands around early to mid-eighties. All these were made by Shiino Vesta Fire Corporation (SVFC), which became Vestax back in 1987. Designwise these are not bad at all. This … Read more
Exar MM-04 Moon Metal
Next up from Vitalii’s traces is Moon Metal from later Exar series. Youtube demo found isn’t all that great, but there’s very nice EQ section and gain range seems quite good as well. Not a small circuit, but i think this could be quite usable.
Exar HR-03 Hammer
Another one from Vitalii’s traces. This one seems quite nice modern metal distortion with reasonable frequency characteristics. Should be enough gain too. The 47K at the top (horizontal one) may be a point to tweak for even more over the top gain. Like so many of these pedals of Polish origin, this one seems to … Read more
Grind Custom Fx Spasm Chasm
By looking at the component values, this appears to be a smoother, tighter, civilized and mid oriented Muff variant especially when you compare it to Ultrastoner and TSM680…
Danelectro FAB Distortion
Based on Maxon Distortion Master but with a hardwired bass control and different component values along the signal path. The buffered bypass swithing wasn’t included in the schematic so I left it out.
