Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s another personal favourite of mine. I just love those ridiculously sized LEDs! Anyway, the OKKO Diablo Boost + was donated to the freestompboxes forum anonymously. It’s a great sounding overdrive/booster that when combined with the extra “+” knob can venture into some pretty high gain territory. Here’s a description from the OKKO website: “The … Read more
[images of custom shop Super Duper 2 in 1 pedals – how cool is the butterfly?] Here’s a project I’m adding just because I get a lot of requests for the schematic – it’s the Zvex Super-Duper-2-in-1. Basically two cascaded Super Hard on circuits with a master volume control at the end. Here’s an internal … Read more
Here’s the Lovepedal Englishman, supposedly an emulation of the classic vintage Vox AC15 / AC30 amps while they’re going through meltdown. It’s been a popular pedal and it can’t be denied that the demo videos do make this thing sound very pleasing. Here’s a more in depth description from the Lovepedal website: “The ENGLISHMAN™ simulates … Read more
Another popular pedal and rightly so, this is a great sounding overdrive. Geiri’s video of his Zendrive build with AMZ MiniBooster in the same box. Thanks for the vid mate:
The OKKO Dominator is a super high gain distortion machine from Germany. I love those massive LEDs they have as a status indicator. They also sound pretty damn mean too! This thing is in the same ball park as the Wampler Triple Wreck – that gives you some idea of the amount of gain this … Read more
The Carl Martin Plexitone has been around for yonks (good word!) and has remained popular with it’s high gain tones and wide versatility allowing the Plexitone to cover most bases required when playing anything other than Folk (Yuk) music. Here’s the description from the Carl Martin website: “The Carl Martin PlexiTone, is as the name … Read more
Brunetti are an Italian company who make some really great sounding amps and stompboxes. The Mercury Box is there overdrive pedal. Here’s the description from the Brunetti website: “Mercury Box is the new Brunetti overdrive/ distortion stomp box. A small metallic box holds together the qualities of the well-known CustomWork Mercury’s channel 2! It is … Read more
The Lovepedal Provalve. It’s been about for a while and indeed preceded the Provalve 2. Here’s a description: And a demo video of the Lovepedal Provalve in action: Soulsonic reverse engineered one and had this to say: “Just a single 386. Initial inspection reveals it to be pretty much identical to the Purple Plexi. Switching between A … Read more
Here’s the Crowther Audio Hot Cake overdrive. Here’s the description: “The Hotcake was first produced in 1976, while Paul Crowther was in the UK with the band, Split Enz. The Hotcake is designed to leave the undistorted component of the guitar sound unchanged, while providing a nice fat distortion sound without resorting to a treble … Read more
