Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Hi yall. Noticed a week or so back that it’s been exactly ten years since my first post here. To celebrate the occasion, i thought i’d post something. There’s been a number of slower years along the way, but so it goes. Life has it’s ups and downs. To quote one of the more interesting … Read more
Another damn nice trace that’s up on FSB, by Joe from Grey Bench Electronics. This one seems to be a very limited run distortion from Barber, built around the time of the millennium madness.
From America’s Pedal:DOD introduced the Corrosion distortion pedal (FX70C) in mid-1997. With basically the same circuit as the FX70 Metal X, the Corrosion featured a heavily oxidized metal finish and no paint except red (1997-98) or black (1999) graphics near the control knobs; the first version with red graphics appears to have been more rare. … Read more
Here’s a very cool Rat variant now out of production. Fairly straight forward Rat with a variation of the Ruetz Mod, LEDs for clipping and a switch to toggle a feedback loop. On the original this is a toggle (SPST), but would be fun to put on a momentary footswitch. Couldn’t confirm the IC in … Read more
It s time for a guest appearance! Chris Stelloh of Capitalist Death Cult requested a layout for this one a while ago but I couldn’t do it at the time so he went off and did his own. The layout is verified and good to go. It is basically a EHX Bassbals with quite a … Read more
A small break from the break… And a short demo by Orion Tonehunt.
Pretty much a stock Rat with two additional switches. The clipping switch selects between the stock silicons and a assymetric MOSFET/Shottky pair. A Earlier units is supposed to have a 1N270 germanium diode in place of the Shottky The Fat switch toggles between stock mode and Fat mode by adding a 6,8uF cap at one … Read more
A “bottom of the well” HM2 variant. Differs enough to warrant its own layout, though…
