Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Hahafender on the forum sent some pictures of the guts of his Micro Pog and wondered how This1sMyne and JHS do their dual control mods, hoping to do similar, preferably like This1sMyne with external controls. We knew from gut shots of the mod that a 4PDT stomp is used, one pole of which is for … Read more
One for you glitchy octavey fuzz fans. Info about the original: The Fnord is a octaver / fuzz type circuit with some twists. It blends a scrambler / octaver type fuzz with a more traditional fuzz / distortion. From zipper/Velcro tones to a full throated distortion, or a combination of the two. Add a sizzle … Read more
I was cleaning up my layout folders and noticed that i had not posted this one up. It’s a slightly modified Machine. First of all, the second driver stage has a gain control now, per the Madbean “Macheen” schematic. Also, i found that using Si diodes and a smaller value for the Limit pot made … Read more
For some reason none of us got my CJ Downbox v2 layout to work. That was a bit of a mystery since the schematic was working correctly on my breadboard, but even though the layout did not have any errors, the flip-flop simply refused to work. I had taken the layout down a long ago … Read more
Strange. I thought we had this already covered, but apparently not. The layout didn’t turn out as compact as i hoped, but there’s still some symmetry in there and at 21×15 it will with in 1590B with ease. So this is the original transformerless Octavia that comes in Rocket enclosure. Apparently the last version Mr. … Read more
Another interesting and simple design from The Tone God archives. Should make a nice quick project to build. From the Tone God’s site: A simple ten part non-selective frequency tripler. It creates octave-like sounds on lower settings and on higher settings generates a metallic swell effect through out the decay of the note(s). It is … Read more
..and i’m back. Been a one hell of a month with kazillion things going on… Here’s something quite cool i ran into. Haven’t had time to build it yet myself, but it is quite high on the priority list. According to the information provided with the schematic (here), this seems like a highly tweakable crossover … Read more
Built this to see if it delivers. It does. Sounds sort of like an inverted, bastard brother of the Green Ringer. Just a bit sleeker in its overall feel. All the information needed on this design (and more) is available at JC’s site. A snippet from the page: Ever wonder what F(x) = |x| sounds … Read more
Pink Jimi Photon’s take on Interfax Harmonic Percolator and Escobedo’s Jerkulator. Read maestro Photon’s complete description on FSB. rock the f**k on!! the vid/audeo is outta sync, too…..arrrrgh who needs LSD?
Requested by Javi …. haha I don’t think I’m going to find any marketing guff so here is what Wikipedia says about it: The effect was used by Jimi Hendrix, and can be heard in guitar solos on the song “Purple Haze”. Hendrix preferred to call the device the “Octavio”, and it is often referred … Read more