Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Another guest appearance by Sebastian who generously shares his interesting designs! Here is a snippet of his description for it: …hybrid of the F’Deck (series 3) and the Broughton high-pass filters. I wanted the steeper slope of the F’Deck (24db/octave below 35Hz) with the gain boost of the Broughton—so, here it is! … Read more
Chuck D. Bones take on one of Björn Juhl’s designs, a hot rodded Honey Bee. Lots of tweaks all over the place so it probably differ quite a bit compared to the original circuit. I subbed the hard to source clipping diodes for NPN transistors to match the voltage drop and knee. Regular 1N4148s will … Read more
Another very interesing by Chuck D. Bones over at the PedalPCB forum. The inspiration comes from some of Catalinbreads overdrive and fuzz designs but adds a lot of refinement amd tweakability.. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
A pretty cool lookin¨take on the ol¨Big Muff. The first and the last stage is replaced by a dual op amp, a diode lift switch at the the first clipping stage, a Gain control that biases both of the clipping stages and for the tonestack, a James control network is used for invidual bass and … Read more
Our ukrainian friend Zzoyds modified version of Masaru Kubuta Allies Fuzz. No schematic for this one but HERE is a very useful link! Here are his description about it: …we have Masaru Kubota Allies Fuzz. so i built it with germanium transistors + added a third stage for normal volume. What I want to say about … Read more
Per request. A DIY project posted by Dylan159 at FSB a while back. It is based on Bajaman’s EVH OD but tweaked and simplified. Schematic and more info HERE.
Another distortion unit designed by Pedro (WTFiCanBuildMyOwnPedals). Here is his own words on his creation. “This one will destroy many amps and eardrums. It is nothing new, just a marriage between a Big Muff and the Booster from the FZ-2 (pedalPCB’s version) which has a very powerful EQ… and it sounds exactly like I imagined it. Anders was … Read more
Pedro (WTFiCanBuildMyOwnPedals) came up with this distortion/overdrive a while ago. It takes elements from both DOD250 and Boss DS1 but it has its own thing going on. A bit less gain than a DS1 and cap values in the signal path is adjusted. The hard clipping diodes are a LED and a silicon diode for … Read more
