Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Back from holiday and thought I’d do a new layout to try to cheer myself up after feeling the difference in temperature :o) The BJFE/Bearfoot Arctic White Fuzz is YAFF but certainly has been souped up and sounds great to me. I’m sure it will be as popular as Bjorn’s other effects. Thanks to Matt … Read more
After the heads up from Miro, here’s the sites 200th fuzz layout! :o) The original has a 5K trimmer in between Texture 1 & 2 and the collector of Q3 which I have omitted to keep this 1590B friendly in terms of number of columns. I think a trimmer there is largely unnecessary as it … Read more
This one’s for those who had trouble with the Ge layouts. It adds Orman’s and Tremblay’s mods to the classic and it is supposed to sound like the real thing. If you want, you could swap the 5K6 resistor for 10 trimmer or even take it off board to act as a bias control. Transistors … Read more
Same as the Mojo version, but with smaller board, made to accomodate your standard components. Description on the Mojo version post.
Really useful mods for the all-time classic, the Tone Bender MKII Professional. Mods add more volume and a trimmer for accurate biasing the germs among other things… From Fuzzcentral: Here is my modified version of the ToneBender MKII Professional, the MindBender. I decided to use NPN Germanium transistors for mine so that I’ll be able … Read more
Check out Tonemachines blog post for this 1969 japanese beauty. Apparently, this is exactly the same circuit that can be found inside Apollo Fuzz and Crestwood Fuzz boxes… The circuit uses “positive ground” with PNP Ge transistors. Mind the power supply or use a charge pump. Now verified. Different transistor models/individuals will affect the output … Read more
Originally sold as a kit, this seems like a nice adaptation of Sam Ash/Astrotone fuzz. Not sure about the original transistors, but my best bet would be on the 2N2222 and other relatively low gain devices. Original also has 50n caps, but i think most of you have stock of 47n caps… Andrea notes on … Read more
Request. To save space I did this using a 3 position on/off/on toggle instead of the rotary switch. You will get the same selections, 10n, 22n and 33n. Well you’ll actually get 32n with my toggle but it’s close enough, although if you do want it with exactly the same values you could always hand … Read more
I recently got a Behringer clone of this one in a trade for free and thought i’d check the schematic out. Turned out a little simpler than expected with a few nice, quite interesting things in its topology. There’s basically a buffer driven by transistor, which drives something not completely unlike a fuzz face. After … Read more
