Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
2023. How the heck are we still alive.. No matter. Let’s do another layout or two. This time, another nice, loud little circuit from Dylan159’s Unrealeased Circuits – From the source:Boot Fuzz. I found this simple old-school microphone preamp, and noticed the similarity with the Fuzz Face, also claimed to be based around a microphone … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday, everyone! Hope everyone is having a good end of the year and holiday season. Here’s the Suhr Rufus Fuzz. If you ever wanted a Fuzz Face with an input buffer and big ol’ ton stack at the end, this would be right up your alley. Here’s the schematic for reference. Should be … Read more
Traced on FSB by Asbestosaurus, this circuit looks at a first glance a bit like OD250/Dist+, but no. And the Sense control makes this quite interesting. I built my layout version one, but this is redrawn to make it better.. Anyway, nice to see something cool done to a single opamp drive topology.
Found this circuit from the DEFX files and thought this to be quite interesting. Discontinued circuit with noise for days. From the source: The GREEN MONSTER septic fuzz (GM2)is an effect pedal to create a septic distortion. Characterized by a dirty, broken and rotten sound. Bad handling! GREEN MONSTER is back with four knobs! There … Read more
It’s december already! From Dylan159’s Unreleased circuits on FSB:I’m not done with fuzz faces it seems. This one’s goal is to keep all the classic cranked gain tones while making the ill-treated gain knob more useful. This is accomplished by moving the gain control to the first stage. When maxed, you have a classic, low … Read more
George Giblet did a trace (and some guesswork on the cap values) on FSB a few years back. The cap values might not be 100% per original, but according to George, those should be at least close enough. There are a few ideas on this late 60’s circuit that are not present on every single … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday, all! Here’s a cool silicon Tone Bender style fuzz from Solid Gold Fx. Aside from using silicon transistors, the first stage is a JFET. When the switch is closed it adds in a 4.7uF input cap in parallel with the 330pF input cap. You could replace the switch with a B100k pot … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday, everyone! Here’s a very cool Big Muff variation designed by Zzoyd. Zzoyd lives in Kyiv and named the circuit after the famed fighter pilot defending the Ukrainian skies from Russian aggression. It reminds a bit of the Musket but with a 2-band EQ and a germanium pre section. Should fit nicely in … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday! Here’s a big one that hopefully makes up for my absence lately. Sounds great on bass and guitar. From Darkglass: The Duality is a unique fuzz pedal that contains two discrete fuzz circuits—a gated saw-tooth wave and a raunchy high-gain sound—which can be mixed together to yield a vast selection of distinct … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday, all! Recently I got a request for the new EQD Hizumitas. Found a schematic for it over on FSB and it’s just a BMP. The values are tweaked, but the topology is the exact same as a standard Muff. If you’ve hung around here for really any length of time you know … Read more