Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Traced by evilarsen. A great sounding octave up fuzz which has an op amp slamming a transformer and two diodes just like in an old Octavia. The transformer listed is 42TL022 but the more recent version has a different unknown part number which is supposed to work even better. A wild guess would be 42TL002? … Read more
Another old japanese obscurity. There is a hand drawn factory schematic floating on the web but I decided to clean it up in order to build a clone. It looked like slimmed down Ibanez Standard Fuzz with a tone control. and a “Howl Adjust” control which dials in the upper octave. And built the fuzz … Read more
It is all about the MOJO! Got a comission to build a bunch of the larger classic fuzz circuits using “mojo” parts, more preciely 1/2w carbon composition resistors and axial electrolyctics/tantalums. It may not be a huge difference soundwise but it is quite fun to build and it looks cool.:-p. Power filter caps remains radial … Read more
Another old octave down circuit with a forest of transistors…. It also have a rare part, MFC-4040 which were a 4.pin divider/flip-flop IC. It went obsoltete in 1975 but according to several sources, NTE754 is a direct replacement. R12 and C21 is marked as “factory tailored component” in the factory schematic so these needs to … Read more
Here is an old odd cat. This is an all discrete clean monophonic octave down effect made by Shin Ei back in the early 70s. Initially I though this was a Maestro OB-1 clone but the schematics revealed that’s not the case. See the notes below the layout for components that needs matching for best … Read more
