Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
An old request. This is pretty much a Rat with an active treble control and two fixed eq gyrators making it quite bass heavy. Lots of mods can be done like a diode switch, tweaking the gyrators and the tonestack as well as tweaking the RC filter at the first gainstage.
Not really a Tonebender; it’s really a Big Muff in disguise – minus a couple of diodes and a gain stage. These were built in the 1970s COLORSOUND JUMBO TONEBENDER – VERO LAYOUT COLORSOUND JUMBO TONEBENDER – VIDEO DEMO
The late EH3054C version of the vintage Deluxe Big Muff. Some improvements had to be done like true bypass and common voltage refrence. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
An op amp emulator of Mesa Boogie Mark II C+ which was used by Metallica for Master of Puppets. There is also a an eq board (which is huge!) so that one is for another post. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Have anyone heard of this one? This is a a super rare distortion unit with clean blend and octave up. There is no sound demos online but the lucky few ones that have played one says it is quite a wild sounding circuit. Schematic is a avaiable at Deadend Fx.
This is an interesting one – the Zvex Machine uses Mosfet boosters into a pair of transistors in a push-pull configuration designed to generate cross-over distortion. Apparently, it doesn’t do much on its own but likes to be paired after a fuzz to shine. ZVEX MACHINE – VERO LAYOUT MACHINE VIDEO DEMO
Happy Fuzz Friday, all! Recently I got a request for the new EQD Hizumitas. Found a schematic for it over on FSB and it’s just a BMP. The values are tweaked, but the topology is the exact same as a standard Muff. If you’ve hung around here for really any length of time you know … Read more
