Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
And the bass version. This is based on the guitar version but with the passive changes to match the filters in the bass version. The diodes seem to have changed often in this, some with symmetrical mosfet/germanium combinations with a 1N34A in both directions and some with asymmetrical as shown here. Some with more than … Read more
Requested by a few people. Even at 22 columns wide it could still fit in a 1590B if you wanted, and the first person to do it wins the TagboardEffects Awesome Builder of the Week award! :o) But I wasn’t too bothered about the board size because I suspect most people will want to put … Read more
Request. A Tonebender set of transistors should do very nicely in this, aim for somewhere between 50 and 80 for Q1 and Q2, and 100 to 130 for Q3. This is a positive ground effect and so can’t be daisy chained with your negative ground effects, so consider using a small Negative Voltage Inverter daughterboard … Read more
Info about the original: Ever played an original FuzzFace from around 1970? (HINT: Not AT ALL the same sound as ones with the same namesake being mass-produced currently.) Ours has two intentionally mismatched (for harmonic content) silicon transistors that snarl and spit… not for the meek! If you put the “Fuzz” on 10 you will … Read more
Request. As everyone knows this is Mike Fuller’s version of the Fuzz Face, but it has something that we haven’t included in the multitude of Fuzz Face layouts we have on the site so I thought it was worth adding a mojo layout. Sticking two fingers up at convention Mike called what most would consider … Read more
Info about the original: Robin Trower is known for TONE. While working with Robin during his 2008 tour, I developed an overdrive truly worthy of the Trower namesake. Touch responsive, huge sounding, sustain for days… and crystal clear when the guitar’s volume knob is reduced for great live dynamics. Being that Robin uses Fenders as … Read more
Now stop moaning! :o) Info from Fulltone about the original: For many, many years you’ve basically had 2 choices for your Overdrive/Distortion pedals: You could either get “Soft-clipped” Bluesy, slightly compressed, (Toob Screemer, FD2, etc.) type Overdrive pedals… or you could get “Hard-Clipped” (OCD, Distortion+, Boss DS-1, etc.) type Distortion pedals. What if there was … Read more
The OCD V4 for me is my most underwhelming and disappointing pedal. It was hyped up to the max and so I was expecting drive Utopia, but instead I got a thin, brittle sounding effect that seemed to suck all the meat out of my signal. I’m sure the pedal reacts differently with different guitar … Read more
