Distortion
Satronik Fuzz Sustainer
A few months ago, Alex and I made an attempt to trace an old polish fuzz/distortion that looked incredibly cool and was supposed to sound in the vein of a Rat or a Big Muff. Soon, we realized that the circuit design was quite unique, not resembling anything else. It is basically a bootstrapped booster … Read more
Dead Air Sawzall
Another contribution from Chris at CDC Fx! This layout is already VERIFIED and good to go. Schematic is avaiable HERE and as you can see the drive section is a modified MXR Distortion+ derivate. You can yeasily tweak it to DOD 250 or countless other variations of the circuit.
CASTLEDINE ELECTRONICS: Magical Mystery Box
Since I’ve been on a slight Beatles related run lately, I thought I should tackle the Castledine Electronics Magical Mystery Box. This is Stu Casteldine’s version of the Brilliant channel from a Vox Conqueror guitar amp. Castledine included a gain recovery section at the end and the transistor-based distortion switching has been removed. I ran … Read more
Aria ATO-1 Tube Overdrive
Schematic is avaiable HERE. Not your Tubr Screamer derivate as the name would suggest. Instead, we have a four stage CMOS overdrive with an op amp preamp, a TS style Treble control and a gyrator for the Bass control. Could it be a sleeper?
Oneder Effects Red Ryder Distortion
Schematic is aviable HERE. For a more compact and symmetric layout I subbed the TL074 quad op amp for two TL072s.
Minotaur Sonic Terrors Swamp Lord
evilarsen is back! This time he traced Swamp Lord by Minotaur. A tweaked Rams Head style Muff with a clipping switch and a Mids control. Nothing new under the sun really but the doom crowd might be interested in this.