Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Nightraven has taken his apart and offers some description of the tone of this strange unit: “it’s basically an overdrive pedal that borders on fuzztone with the controls dimed and having a dirty amp to start with. very underrated IMHO – i think it’s loads better than Tubescreamers and the various copies.” For a better idea … Read more
This has been requested by a few people and although I was in two minds about posting this, it’s pretty well documented that the Lovepedal Amp11 is a blatant rip off and as the layout for that one is on this site (and I strongly encourage anyone considering buying the original of that pedal to … Read more
The Fulltone Plimsoul, a new(ish) distortion overdrive from the man who brought you the much appraised OCD. The Plimsoul piqued my interest when it was claimed that part of the circuitry was due to be patented. First here’s the description of the Plimsoul from the Fulltone website: “For many, many years you’ve basically had 2 … Read more
I thought I’d include the Bearfoot version of the Honey Bee, because I’ve heard quite a few people say they prefer it to the original. Unfortunately you can’t just change a few values using my BJF Honey Bee layout because there is an added resistor that needed cramming in. Still you can just build both … Read more
Information about the original: BJF design high headroom overdrive with adjustable low/mid EQ balance Premium quality classic blues/rock pedal that works very well with complex overdriven amp sound. This pedals is now offered as lower priced pcb-model or hand wired pedal. Both share the same specs and tone. It’s a low compression, high headroom overdrive … Read more
This is a modded version of the Sky Blue Overdrive, with a Tone control added, Texture control changed from an unnecessary dual to standard single 1K linear pot, and changes to the Z control to make it more useful. 1590B friendly if you can squeeze 5 pots in there. Info about the original: BJF design … Read more
So, I finished building the prototype “Vintage Boosters” I designed – The “Face” (Fender inspired), “E11even” (Marshall inspired) and the “’64 Vintage” (Vox inspired). I designed them as three separate units that could be used individually to create tones which have a definite character of the amp they take inspiration from but I also paid a huge amount of … Read more
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost … Read more
Great sounding pedal designed to emlulate a HiWatt amp, and so one for you Who fans out there. Again this was an awkward one to keep the width down, but it will fit nicely in a 1590B. Video of Geiri’s build of this layout: Update (23rd March 2012): Missed cut, use this latest layout
