Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I know right – a regular vero layout for a change. While it’s called a fuzz, it has quite a bit of range. Clean(ish) to an overloaded squishy fuzz Schematic is here FAIRFIELD CIRCUITRY ~900 FUZZ Just be sure to use J201 from a reputable source, and always check the pinout. Do not buy your … Read more
I saw a Gray Bench Electronics tear-down of the Fairfield Barbershop V1 pop-up in my YouTube feed today and thought I’d go back and look at the layout I did a couple of years ago. Turns out I never posted it – I had only posted my take on the Millennium edition. So here it is, albeit slightly smaller … Read more
Yet to build this myself, I quite like the idea behind this – I am partial to anything with bass / mid/high controls for guitar and a germanium transistor. Bonus points for also including a discrete op-amp, which I’ve been playing with lately. Before I looked at the schematic for this, I was playing around with modding a Boss Blues … Read more
The Soma 63 is an amp in a box style pedal, with the usual array of J201s with trimmers replacing valves, an amp-style tone stack, and a transformer at the end of the signal chain thrown in for good measure. I added some mounting points on this, as you don’t want a board with a transformer on … Read more
The Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop is one of my favourite overdrives, although I am yet to try this version. There’s some subtle difference to version one, and it has a tone control, similar to the Millennium version. I think the most significant difference is the change to the output buffer. FAIRFIELD CIRCUITRY BARBERSHOP VERSION 2 – VERO LAYOUT TEARDOWN & SCHEMATIC … Read more
Suggested as a favourite along with the Wampler Plexi-Drive by Ding on another post, so thought I would take a look at the Ramble FX Marvel Drive 2.2 They’re clearly going for a Marshall vibe, and they have some success capturing this through the sound of the video demos. RAMBLE FX MARVEL DRIVE 2.2 – VERO LAYOUT RAMBLE … Read more
Thought I might add the Wampler Plexi-Drive to the list after I did another Benson layout, as they are similar in many ways. Just look at the two schematics side by side, and you’ll see what I mean. Like anything involving JFETS, choose the resistors going to the drains to suit your JEFTS; they can and … Read more
The Benson Preamp is pretty popular, but 2M pots are hard to find. This is a modded vero layout using a 1M bass pot. To make this change and keep the same frequency response, resistances are halved, capacitance is doubled. Note that the Drive pot value also had to be halved. I’ll add a regular size … Read more
I found this one sitting in a folder from a while back, so I thought I would post it on the off-chance that anyone is interested. It’s very similar to an Ibanez SD-9. Vertex market the T Drive as a Trainwreck amp in a box – which is a massive stretch of the imagination. VERTEX … Read more
Could there be a better time than a super blood moon to post the Coda FX Black Hole Doom Machine? Yes, the super blood moon is a real thing, and it’s happening in my part of the world at the time of this post. Ominous astronomical omens aside – this is a JFET version of … Read more