Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
From blistering, octave-tinged fuzz all the way down to dirty, fat overdrive with a turn of your guitar’s volume control, the Raincoat has a sound all of its own. Is it an overdrive that does fuzz? A distortion that does overdrive? A fuzz that does it all? We have no idea. All we know is, … Read more
The XB-70 is a clone of the Captain’s personal ’77(?) Guild Foxy Lady, which were built by Electro Harmonix and generally very similar to Ram’s Head Big Muffs. In the Captain’s own words, “It sounds like torn leather soaked in piss and salt smushed lovingly into ears… It is a brute of a pedal, has a … Read more
This appears to be Rockett’s take on the Marshall Guv’nor, but with a few modifications. The tone control of the Guv’nor has been replaced with a Baxandall EQ tone stack and the output is boosted with a JFET gain stage (much like Rockett Flex Drive). Should fit nicely in a 1590B with board mounted pots.
Fuzz Friday! Here’s a cool one designed by Alec Breslow (check him out on Instagram) who was cool enough to share his schematic. It’s based on the EQD Acapulco Gold with an added blend control and Baxandall EQ. Good for both bass and guitar. It’s laid out for board mounted pots an will fit nicely in … Read more
JohnK had made a layout for the 903 awhile ago, so I thought I’d give the 901 a shot. The layout should be small enough to give you plenty of room in a 1590BB. I took his switch wiring to make it true bypass, and removed the additional LED to tell you that it’s got … Read more
This one was kind of a sleeper. No where near as popular as MXR’s Distortion +, the Distortion II was quite a bit more complicated and ran off a 15v supply, complete with a built power cord . This layout is a bit modified from the original, and can be run off a normal pedal power … Read more
“The Rockett Pedals 10 Ton Hammer is a perfect distortion pedal for players who have a clean amp, like a Fender. It may not play nicely with high gain amplifiers, thats just the nature of the high gain game. This is a highly responsive pedal, and with some creative use of your guitars volume and … Read more
Got a request for this one. It was designed by Haroldo Gamal and Leonardo Plautz Chocron. The Hell’s Gain is a high gain distortion with an active 3-bad EQ. It’s a big one that ended up with a lot of jumpers, but’s fairly standard with circuit using a bi-polar supply. It’ll fit in a 1590BB … Read more
Very little info around on this late 70’s / early 80’s unit. Check the FSB thread for details. I snatched the image off from fxdb… Now. What’s this all about.. The way i see it, we have a buffered OD250/Dist+ gain stage (including clipping diodes shunt to ground), followed by a sort-of active BMP tone … Read more
Not much info around of this japanese “Marshall in a box” type distortion. It does sound pretty good though.. Junko seems a bit nervous on the demo.