Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I’d love to get the Lovepedal Englishman / Death of a Vox reverse engineered and see what’s going on inside. If anyone has one they are willing to take apart and take a few high-resolution photographs of I’d be forever grateful. My email is fredbriggs2007 [ at ] googlemail [ dot ] com. Thanks 🙂 … Read more
All the projects have been updated with layouts (where available) new schematics and extra description/demo videos. Expect around 5-6 new ones online very soon as well – Specifically a few new BJF and Mad Professor effects, the Death by Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun and possibly one of my own 🙂
Here’s a great post from Bjorn of BJF effects on the Freestompboxes forum where he goes into detail on the tubescreamer circuit. The post is a few years old but if you’re interested in this sort of thing it’s a good read! http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=953
Here are a few essential links for anyone looking to design their own effects circuits. These are just a few of the hundreds of pages that are useful and are the ones I tend to use most often. http://www.electronics2000.co.uk/calc/reactance-calculator.php – Capacitor Reactance Calculator http://www.muzique.com/lab/main.htm – Jack Orman’s brilliant Lab notes http://www.muzique.com/schem/filter.htm – RC Filter Cut-off calculator http://www.muzique.com/lab/buffers.htm – Basic … Read more
Here is one that I discovered hiding down at the bottom of my storage drawers! It’s back from my circuit bending/noise production days. It’s basically an old circuit bent DOD FX75B Flanger that has been modified to use an old Playstation controller to allow you to modify the crazy sounds that the unit can produce. … Read more
Aparently the “boutique” pedal builder “Freakish Blues” buy’s $30 JoYo pedals and repaints (and goops up their innards!) them before reselling on for $170 on the Gear Page. Freestompboxes came up with the scoop back in June with the dismemberment of a Freakish Blues “Alpha Drive” pedal. Read that story here; http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13383 Find the full story … Read more
GODLYKE REISSUES THE GUYATONE BR-2 BOTTOM ROCKER A secret weapon of such notable bassists as Bootsy Collins, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Tool’s Justin Chancellor, the Guyatone BR-2 Bottom Wah Rocker has become a highly sought prize on the used market. In response to this growing demand, we’ve reissued a limited 100-piece run of this funky little … Read more
Update – Sorry it took this long to put up a SOLD notice, this one went in the first few hours!. I’m sorry if you emailed after it went! I’ll be putting up some more of my builds in the future. They are all sold on a first-come-first-serve basis, I don’t do auctions (unless the … Read more
You guys are what makes Revolution Deux a worthwhile project. What I want to know is which pedals you all want to see on the site? I’ll then do my homework and see if I can cobble together the info that I need to create a few projects for the “most wanted” stompboxes. To vote … Read more
Hi there, I’ve had so many requests to build up the “Son of a Clay Jones Overdrive” (Which I will refer to as the SOCJOD from now on) pedal for you guys I’ve decided to produce a small run of them, 9 units to be exact. Basically the SOCJOD is a Tubescreamer-808 Overdrive circuit built … Read more