Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Durham Crazy Horse – an overdrive/boost/fuzz unit. It’s pretty expensive too at $250 for a new one. Here’s the description from the Durham website: “This is, I believe, the most adaptable distortion/fuzz pedal on the market. Definitely not a one trick pony! Though the inspiration for this pedal came from a legendary tone, it’s … Read more
I like CAtalinbread pedals, Nick does a really good job designing and building some great sounding boxes. Here’s the Catalinbread Formula No 5 – a supposed 5E3 emulator from them. It sounds great and, justifiably, there’s been a lot of interest in the pedal. Here’s the description from the Catalinbread website: “The Formula № 5 … Read more
Here’s the Xotic BB Preamp pedal, a popular boost/overdrive pedal. There’s a description on the Xotic website: “The BB Preamp offers awide variety of sounds. It’s capable of a 30dB+ clean boost with an adjustable ±15dB two band active EQ which adds a wide range of harmonic content to your ideal sound.The BB also utilizes … Read more
I posted this a while ago but someone said they had a problem with the build and so I pulled it and then promptly forgot! I’ve just noticed that since then the same guy confirmed the layout is good so I may as well post it up again.
A few people don’t like the tone control on the Sonic Titan, so this is a modification based on Skinpimp’s Sonic Samurai. Apart from the tone stack modifications, all the other Titan components and values remain true to the original.
I did a mojo axial layout for this a while ago and wanted a more compact layout too, so here it is. If anyone wants the axial version let me know and I’ll dig it out and post it as well. And one for DSG pinout JFETs such as the 2N5457, 2N5458 or J201
Yep, here is another one – the Himmelstrutz Fetto. Well know for it’s amplike response and great tones, it’s been a while coming. Thanks *again* to fsb.org (lawnchair and soulsonic in particular) it’s insides are available to view. Firstly a description from the Himmelstrutz guys: “Jump on FETTO Standard when your guitar and amp can’t … Read more
Well, yet another Lovepedal on the chopping bench – the Kalamazoo. Ok so what we know – it’s a tubescreamer derivative. Check out the tones on the demo video: Some circuit board images were donated to freestompboxes.org and a retrace begun. WhiteKeyHole produced this schematic: As you can see it’s a straight tubescreamer derivative. There … Read more
The Lovepedal OD Eleven, one of the latest overdrive offerings from Sean over at Lovepedal. It’s caused quite a bit of hype as usual and plenty of people got interested in it. Here’s a description from the Lovepedal website: “Harmonically rich, perfectly tuned, transparent overdrive unit that delivers fat, organic tone of an overdriven tube … Read more
The Lovepedal Amp Eleven, a relatively new offering from Sean over at his Lovepedal Boutique. He’s got a description up on his website: “With the AMP ELEVEN™, Lovepedal guru Sean Michael has really nailed the fat, organic tone of an overdriven tube amp – with separate controls for bass and tone. Then, he couples the … Read more