Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s the Mocker. It’s a recreation of the on-board fuzz from the Vox UL730, used by the Beatles on Revolver and a bit on Sgt. Peppers. It’s fairly simple with most of the mojo coming from the OA200 clipping diodes. Socket and experiment as I’ve heard 1N4148s and 1N4001s sound good. The transistors are low … Read more
Happy Holidays, everyone. This one seemed like it needed laying out before the year came to a close, so here’s the new EXH/JHS colab, the Big Muff 2. It’s an op amp based Big Muff that’s not like the typical ICBM, but uses 2, 4558s in 3 soft clipping configurations into a BMP tone stack. Schematic … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday! Been meaning to redo this one for a while with board mounted pots. A buddy of mine was reminiscing about a Sunface he used to own and wish he still had, so I built this with some OC71s for his 40th b-day. AnalogMan has used loads of different transistors in these over … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday, all. Somehow in 10 years of laying out fuzzes, I’ve never done this one. Here’s the Roland (pre-Boss) AF-60 BeeGee fuzz. Originals use semiconductors you probably don’t have in your parts stash, but nothing in mojo territory, so modern equivalents will work just as well. Fairly simple circuit with a couple transistor … Read more
For Fuzz Friday here’s the Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz redone with board mounted pots. Schematic for reference. Didn’t make a drill template for this one, but the pots are 1.2″ apart and should be an east fit in a 1590B.
Stumbled across this one I though would be a quick Fuzz Friday layout. It’s a modified Zonk 2 with silicon transistors. Originals use NOS 2N3416, but other low hFe (150-200) BJTs should work just fine (2N2222, 2N5550, etc). Laid it out so the board would be vertical in the enclosure with the pots attaching to … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday! Here’s a Univox Super Fuzz derived circuit from Earthquaker. Should squeeze into a 1590B just fine. Here’s the schematic for reference:
Happy Fuzz Friday, folks! Stumbled across this one recently and looked cool. It’s basically 2 SHOs in series pushing a Green Ringer. Schematic for reference. Should fit nicely in a 1590B. I’ve also got a fabricated version in the store.
Happy Fuzz Friday everyone! You probably didn’t miss this collaboration between Josh Scott and Mike Matthews, and because of the old school style of the big box version, it wasn’t to hard to trace. There’s still a few things we don’t know about the circuit, so have your sockets handy if you put this together … Read more
This one was recently traced on FSB and as i have a soft spot for Devi & Dwarfcraft circuits alone and together, i had to draw it up.. A bit like original Soda Meiser, or at least some revisions of it, but this time with a Chaos switch and a Drone-knob.