Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
From Beavis Audio Research: Finally something that actually does go to eleven. I love the 386 power amp chip. It is incredibly versatile. As the engine behind the Ruby, Little Smokey, and Noisy Cricket amps, it is the best bang for the buck single-chip amplifier. But it is more than that: it is also used widely … Read more
Here’s something quite interesting. A switch to toggle between TubeScreamer-like, and a Rat-like mode. Basically this could be the basic tool, think swiss army knife, of overdrives and distortions. I omitted the in/out buffers from the layout, but used the original JFET pinout. I built the layout, and noticed that with my batch of NE5534s … Read more
Per request. The original design had couple of things i had to mod to get this stripboard and/or 1590B friendly. First, there are two dual opamps in the original box, and they are used in quite peculiar manner. The first one is TL072, which has other half as input buffer for bypassed signal and other … Read more
Another request. Aron Nelson’s Lava Rim 2. I have no clue why the input level control pot is called “Bias”. That’s the reason why i used quote marks around it…
Another request. Wampler’s mods for MXR Distrotion +, as seen at Premier Guitar magazine’s website.
I’ve put a couple of Suhr Riot layouts on here, one from Madbean’s take on it, and one with jymaze’s popular modifications, but it was always felt that something wasn’t quite right. Fortunately MarkGor on Freestompboxes traced his pedal and also removed some of the components so they could be measured to check the values, … Read more
Why not repeat the same perfect scheme that worked pretty well ten years earlier?
This one apparently has the same circuit board as the FX50. Original used TL062, so TL061 is probably the right chip for the job. Like FX50, the other half of the opamp didn’t touch the signal path when engaged at all, so i decided to go with a single.
