Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info about the original: The Yardbox™. A faithful sonic copy of the original Sola Sound Tonebender, purportedly the only distortion pedal used on Led Zeppelin’s first two albums. The pedal has no similarity to Jumbo, Supa, or the Vox Tonebender. Wide variation in tone and smooth dynamics at all volumes.
Madferret’s amazing and complete overhaul of those circuits that use low gain Ge transistors in darlington configuration to achieve fuzzy germanium bliss. This baby consumes 6 of your low gain/low loeak germaniums and adds not-completely-unlike big muff tone stack plus a recovery stage to keep the signal loud. Not to mention three different pots to … 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
One more from the Dragonfly archives. This one is a must for us who have tons of low leakage, low gain germaniums on our hands. The name is describing the circuit well, as it takes 4 germs to get one ripping fuzz running. Note that this is “positive ground” circuit. You can always use a … Read more
There was a bit hassle with this one, but now it’s verified and working. Comments on the post are a good read if you’re building this. Thanks to Mr. Photon for his amazing work, and special thanks to Pete who verified this. Mind the notes about the transistors. This is drawn from schematic marked as … Read more
Another good looking Effdub design. One could pretty easily mod this for “smooth” switch (by making the 2n2 cap from input to ground switchable) and giving it a “fuzz” control by replacing 1K resistor from Q3 emitter to ground with 1K pot. Thought i’d draw this to the spec, as some people seem to like … Read more
EZ build 60’s style fuzz that can get fairly smooth at one extreme and lots of “splat” at the other. Geiri’s dual build (splat knob is fixed on the layout as of now):
