Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info about the original: Apiformis Fuzztortion is a pedal that is quite unlike it’s original idol. In it’s heart, it is a dark low medium gain fuzz/distortion that has delusions of grandeur about being an overdrive. And it is doing all that with vintage-like touch, from doomy dark to brightly overdriven, distorted fuzz with vintage, … Read more
Info about the original: The Black Arts Toneworks LSTR is the red-headed step brother of the Pharaoh. The LSTR provides even more fuzz and mayhem than its brother with the swell of low end you would expect from any Black Arts pedal. This Toneworks beast uses a uniquely interactive tone control circuit allowing for a … Read more
Only ever heard good things about this one, so it had to be added to the collection. Not very good timing though as Vince has just bought one! :o) I have done the main fuzz and buffer circuit separately so those who just want to build the fuzz can do so. If you do want … Read more
One for the Fuzzynoise-ophiles. Description of the original: The Soundwave Breakdown takes the idea of a screaming fuzz pedal and turns it inside out. It uses specially matched transistors turned backwards to get it’s bombastic sound. The one knob controls extreme biasing of one of the transistors and the other controls intense filtering. Although this … Read more
I don’t know a lot about this other than the fact it seems to be virtually identical to the Sam Ash Fuzz, Analogman sells a clone, and there is an original for sale at the moment on eBay for $3250! So you can build this if you want to save yourself $3245! :o) Info about … Read more
Request, to give Miro something to do with his morning :o) Info about the original: The Blue Clipper is an excellent fuzz-tone with incredible sustain. They’re back! The legendary Dan Armstrong Sound Modifiers are now available again and they’re better than ever. These units are now 100% USA made and are hand-built to authentic 1975 … Read more
Request, this one will fit in a 1590A if you’re feeling brave. Info about the (re-issued) original: Non-harsh-oscillating-processing. For a relatively high gain silicon fuzz circuit this thing is smooth, like real smooth, a soft smooth you could say. Make no mistake this blue cyclops will fart-out a chewy smoke laden fuzz cloud you can … Read more
Vince on here asked me if I could adapt my layout to make a 2 Knob Woolly Mammoth with just Pinch and Volume controls. He wanted me to remove the Wool pot simulating it being set fully clockwise, and remove the the EQ pot and simulate it being set dead centre. The Wool pot was … Read more
A more compact layout for the Fuzz Factory using radial caps, so I thought I’d add a new post rather than add it to the old layout, to avoid confusion as this one obviously isn’t verified yet. Info about the original: This is a five-knob fuzz using two new old-stock sixties germanium transistors. The circuit … Read more
From a schematic on the Experimentalist Anonymous forum, this is what they wrote about it: This simple box realizes the common sample rate reduction effect in analog form. Sample rate reduction is essentially very low quality analog to digital conversion. A snapshot of the input signal is taken every so often and outputted. The effect … Read more