Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Damn i like this brand. Cool, great sounding designs and lots of them. And i was surprised the schematic was up at their site. I only have a few originals, but i’m strongly tempted to get more.. Info from Catalinbread: We combined the best elements of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion … Read more
From the source: A revelation. Stripped down all out amp pusher. The Revelation has a trio of controls. Pre Gain, Gain, and Volume. LOTS of volume. Pre Gain sets the overall gain level of the device, the gain control dials in the correct amount of distortion and the volume knob absolutely slays the front end … Read more
Direct from the source: A revelation. Stripped down all out amp pusher. The Revelation has a trio of controls. Pre Gain, Gain, and Volume. LOTS of volume. Pre Gain sets the overall gain level of the device, the gain control dials in the correct amount of distortion and the volume knob absolutely slays the front … Read more
Came across the schematic for this one over at FSB, and it’s a pretty good marhally sounding OD/Distortion. Made by a company Caline, a Chinese company that sells direct. It’s actually stupid cheap, to buy, seen them for sale $35usd new. You may be asking, “well if it’s so cheap why spend time making a … Read more
Got another cascaded JFET design, this time from Wampler. Great for getting those EVH Brown Sound tones. I’ve added 2 trimmers for the 2 non-cascaded JFET stages to make biasing at little easier (originals use 22k resistors). Should be an easy fit in a 125B with top mounted jacks, but should also work in a … Read more
Here’s an interesting distortion from Carl Martin. It’s similar to an Escobedo Punch-in-the-Face between 2 opamp stages. Board mounted pots and will fit nicely in a 1590B. FSB schematic here for reference.
The ROG Ginger is an amp emulator designed to sound like the classic Ampeg SB-12 Portaflex. So it’s intended for bass, but sounds good with a guitar as well. Schematic, sound clips, and more info can be found in the ROG article. It’s laid out for board mounted pots will fit easily in a 125B … Read more
Today we’ve got the Lovepedal Hi Volt. A wide variety of tones on tap with this one. It’s a cascaded JFET gain stage into an active EQ section, all powered by a 16v charge pump. Laid this out with on board pots and will fit in a 125B with top mounted jacks. Here’s the schematic … Read more
“The Hi Volt is a mid- to high-gain dirt box, with a fully saturated effect that is internally charge-pumped to 16VDC, and brandishes a high headroom, custom-tuned 3-band active EQ. This high-voltage configuration allows for very flexible and potent sonic possibilities, ranging from blues to metal and everything in between. With its generous low-end wallop, … Read more
This is probably the biggest Marshall-in-a-box pedal out there (footprint-wise anyway). Originals use a +/- 12v supply with a transformer internally. I modified the power section with a +/-18v charge pump and will run off a normal +9v power supply. This saves room so you can use a smaller enclosure and gives more headroom to the effect. It … Read more