Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info about the original: The Yerasov 5000 Volt Modern Distortion in rugged aluminum housing provides official nu metal high-gain sound and offers the following control options: Current (Volume), Insulation (Tone) and Voltage (gain). Power is supplied via the optional AC adapter. The official schematic calls the tone control “Isolation” which is what I have also … Read more
Info from the manufacturer about their original: The Black Cat OD-1 (a.k.a. Freddie Fuzz) is an original design Fred created based on the unique properties of the OP275, a dual operational amplifier chip made by Analog Devices. The OP275 is a high-quality op-amp that gives a distinctive linear output waveform. The Black Cat OD-1 can … Read more
Happy Christmas everybody! Info about the original: The Groundswell full overdrive with a natural response to picking intensity. It features two transistor based gain stages, so it doesn’t have that artificial over-clipped sound like many “overdrive pedals” out there. No compression, just gain and drive! Dual gain stages and a voltage reducer that alters total … Read more
Description from the General Guitar Gadgets site: Brown Sound In A Box version 2 (BSIAB2) is an excellent distortion pedal designed by Ed Guidry. Based on the AMZ MiniBooster cascading work done by Jack Orman and further refined by Aron Nelson and Doug Hammond. This is one of the best heavy Marshall-type distortion boxes that … Read more
Info from Runoffgroove about the project: Around 1965, Marshall introduced a few amps built around an 18 Watt EL84 powered circuit. While these models were intended for practice, the sound was much better than other small amps. Unfortunately, only a few hundred of these combos were manufactured over the next three years. These rare amps … Read more
Once again. This one has surprisingly little info around the internets. Seems like a nice alternative for Distortion+. Nice, simple build anyway. Ad text from fmogearshop (also check the photos there): Here’s a vintage Carlsbro Suzz from the seventies. The name seems to imply that this would be some sort of fuzz pedal, don’t you think? … Read more
Very similar to the Drive Master posted a couple of days ago, but thought I’d include the full layout to keep things complete. This version with a diode/LED switch as per a request I had. If you’d prefer yours to be like the original and have fixed LEDs rather than this switch, then just solder … Read more
It was surprisingly hard to find a description about this ’90s IC powered re-issue. Well. So hard that i didn’t find any. Some demo videos are floating around the web….
From an 80s Marshall ad: Fire your cartage company. You don’t need a rack full of gear to get distortion that goes from subtle to stun gun. If you want all the range of a top studio pro, the Drive Master is for you.
Should be pretty obvious what this one is based on but people rave about it and it does have subtle differences in the schematic, not least of which the clipping switch, that will make this one a worthwhile build. I’m not sure if this is the official John Landgraff’s description of the pedal, but it … Read more