Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Just realised that I never posted a regular vero layout for one of my favourite guitar effects – the Matsumin Valve Caster. It doesn’t require power filtering, so you could easily drop the 100ohm resistor and 100u cap. The Valve Caster was one of my first builds, and it doesn’t have any power filtering and … Read more
A variant of the Matsumin Velvecaster, the Frequency Central Valvemaster. I really like Valvecasters, so I was looking forward to making this, but it just wasn’t working for me on the breadboard today. I might try a different valve / test the valve I’m using in a valvecaster circuit just to make sure it … Read more
Full details available here, which is my point-to-point layout for the Matsumin Valvecaster. Original values are used below. MATSUMIN VALVECASTER – TAG BOARD LAYOUT
The Matsumin Valve Caster is a very underrated little circuit, with almost no decent demos online. The only demos I could find either sounded kind of terrible, which is nothing like my build, or they are attempting high gain sounds, which is something this just doesn’t do. The Matsumin Valve Caster works best as a clean boost, … Read more