Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I purchased a sheet of phenolic board locally to make some MKI boards, as I didn’t want to pay $25 postage on a $3 board from the USA (postage to Australia is often a killer). I couldn’t find a template anywhere, so I reversed one from a product image online – I did make one … Read more
A pretty cool design, this. A FET booster that slams a FET Fuzz Face with hard clipping LEDs. All 10k Source resistors is replaced with trimpots for yeasy biasingg. A big thank you to Deadend Fx for the trace of this rare bird that was old in Japan in limited quantites before the millenium. Schematic … Read more
mellasse sent me a schematic for an old Guytatone fuzz, Guyatone DS2 Sustainer. Looking at the schematic I noticed it was really similar to another Guyatone offering, HD Harmonic Distortion. The main difference is the tonestack, HD2 is scooped and SD2 is more mid focused. So this layout have a switch for both SD2 and … Read more
Traced by Gray Bench Electronics. It is basically a heavilly tweaked hybrid Tonebender Mk. II. I added an anti pop resistor at the input and reoriented the 4,7uF cap. Schematic and teardown video is avaiable HERE.
Just a little one from the Bosstone family. This is said to have been used in MSA Pedal Steel guitars, and it’s basically a slight variation on the Nashville Bosstone circuit. These can be a bit noisy, so really have to watch your wiring and try for quite low gain on Q1. It can … Read more
Traced by evilarsen, AlexS and Marco. evilarsen did the dirty work by building and verifying the board. …and here is evilarsens build.
This is a little unusual – let’s jump straight to the obvious, the giant capacitors. The Union Tube and Transistor Tourbender is their take on a MKII Tonebender using readily available silicon PNP transistors with a negative ground power supply. Basically invert a PNP circuit and then stabilise it with a lot of capacitance. Watch … Read more
Perhaps best known as the Analog Man Astrotone Fuzz now, this started life as the Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx and the same circuit also appears in the Astro Amps Astrotone Fuzz – which is a supremely cooler name, which is maybe why it has stuck. The original has 47n caps on this input and output, … Read more
