Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This one was recently traced on FSB and as i have a soft spot for Devi & Dwarfcraft circuits alone and together, i had to draw it up.. A bit like original Soda Meiser, or at least some revisions of it, but this time with a Chaos switch and a Drone-knob.
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
Another Exar box traced by Vitali from Drunk Beaver pedals. I’ve been curious about this one for a while. It turns out that the fuzz section are a Boss DS-1 derivate. The interesting part lies in the Eq section. The Frequency pot controls both a Big Muff tonestack (with a very deep mid scoop notch) … 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
This is pretty much a souped up DOD250/MXR Distortion Plus derivate with more gain on tap and useful gain control. But the most interesting thing is the “Sens” control which pand between a low pass filter and hard clipping diodes. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
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.
Not a huge amount of variation on Zonks in terms of component values, and at one stage this was all on the MKI table, but I decided to split the two. ZONK MACHINE SCHEMATIC ZONK MACHINE COMPONENT VALUES Link to table BUILD NOTES In my experience, the Zonk can be a little easier to make … Read more
By looking at the component values, this appears to be a smoother, tighter, civilized and mid oriented Muff variant especially when you compare it to Ultrastoner and TSM680…
