Distortion
Dwarfcraft Devices Eau Claire Thunder V1
Traced by TOFO. This is a layout for the early big box version with three footswitches. It is based on the russian Big Muff but with more gain, reversed tonestack tone bypass switch, switchable and tunable feedback loop and a diode selector switch for the second clipping stage.
Guyatone MM2 Metal Master w. mods
Schematic is avaiable HERE. Some mods needed to be done to make it more versitale. First, the 3 position slider switch is replaced by a rotary switch. Second, High and Mid eq sections were hardwired internally. Since they are pretty much the same as in Boss MT-2 High and Mid eq sections, it was pretty … Read more
ProCo / Fuzzdog 3-Band Rat
This is a request. Fuzzdog tweaked a the classic Rat circuit a few years ago. It includes the “Reutz mod”, a diode selector switch for assymetric silicon/LED clipping and a Marshall 3-band tonestack. The output buffer is tweaked into a gain recovery J FET stage to cover up the lossy tonestack. For a Sunn/Supergroup tonestack, … Read more
Danelectro D-1 Fab Tone Distortion
A very old request and I forgot I had it in a folder. Somewhat related to some of the DOD “Lamb” series dirt boxes,
Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood Distortion
Not much info on the manufacturer of this one but I believe it was made by TC Electronics. Note that I have seprated the the Instrument/Line level section into a daughterboard. Simply to to have the option to leave it out and cram the main board into a smaller enclosure… Schematic is avaiable HERE. … Read more
EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas Fuzz
Since I’m pretty much slushed and decked by the Covid flu at the moment, this one will be the last layout for a while… Over and out…but first some marketing spell. The Hizumitas was designed for the one and only guitar sorceress, Wata, from the legendary band, Boris! We could not be more excited to … Read more