Distortion
DeadAstronautFX Skinwalker
Here’s a cool original design by DeadAstronaut. It’s a cascaded JFET/mu-amp based high gain distortion with a 3-band EQ. Original build doc with schematic found here. Laid out for a 125B enclosure with top mounted jacks.
Noah’sArk Distortion M
Not a lot out there on this one, but stumbled across the schematic over on FSB. Apparently it’s another Marshall-in-a-box type. Sounds pretty good. Should fit nicely in a 1590B. The 1uF and 2.2uF caps are tantalum in the original but eletrolytics could be used as well. Original 1S1588 clipping diodes could easily be replaced … Read more
MOSFET Pie
Stumbled across this Big Muff variation designed by Anders over on the Tagboard forum. Seemed like a cool design for Fuzz Friday. Here’s what he had to say about it: Inspired by Skreddy Top Fuel and a DIY muff project One Knob Gilmour I have been tinkering with a big muff circuit using mosfet transistors … Read more
MI Audio Tube Zone
Here’s the Tube Zone distortion from MI Audio. Original has 6 knobs with the Presence pot internally as a trimmer, but I know how you guys like to fiddle with knobs, and the layout was turning into a 1590BB size anyway, so I made it external. Schematic available on FSB.
Yamaha DI-01 Distortion
This is currently on hold till I figure out the tone control issue or someone can shed more light on this circuit. Build at your own risk. I stumbled across the schematic for this effect and thought it was another variation of the Marshall Bluesbreaker circuit. But realized it actually predates the Marshall circuit by several … Read more
zVex Machine
Happy Fuzz Friday! Not sure how I haven’t laid this one out before. Think of it like a mashup of a SHO and Tim Escobedo’s Tripple Fuzz, and then repeated. Here’s the schematic for reference. This one was drawn up based on an early 2000s model and the input SHO section I’ve modified to the … Read more