Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Aion Fx take on a pretty rare, forgotten and old fuzz box by Roland. Some useful addons is made. A gain control is added and a series resistor before the volume control is removed for more overall output. I added a tone selector switch for the tone control since the factory schematic and Aion’s schematic … Read more
A request from Mikko, who had very kindly done all of the tracing work – very nice job by the way, and photos below. It’s a Fuzz Face from Sonus using NKT MT57 germanium transistors, with an external bias pot and a couple of different component values (Jimi mods) – 2k fuzz pot and … Read more
Someone mentioned this in the comments recently (thank you ClassicFuzz), so I thought I’d have a look at the photos on Reverb. The Goldie is a MKI in a MKII enclosure from March 2022, likely to be inspired by this unit found in Germany – which is an absolute train wreck of work. … Read more
Uh oh, everything Josh does at the moment seem to hit the fan… *update 230421* The cap avalues and transistors is now figured out for both the big box version and Nano version. An additional layout for the Nano version is uploaded. Big box version Nano version Demo by Mr … Read more
Schematic is avaiable HERE. A few things keep in mind for experimenting… The resistor across the Gain Boost switch is labelled 100k in the schematic which seem to be quite high.Try a smaller value for R2 or jumper it if you want to omit the Gain Boost switch altogether. For a mor Trebkle Boost switch, … Read more
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
So just out, and with all of the suitable hype and controversy expected – the EHX / JHS Lizard Queen. Trace and discussion in progress on FSB – it looks relatively similar to some old DIY designs out there, which is the cause of much of the controversy. Well, not so much what they are based … Read more
