Overdrive

Here is a project for the Wampler Pedals “Triple Wreck” super high gain distortion pedal. The Wampler Pedals site provides this description: “This pedal is probably one of the tightest, thickest highest gain distortions you have ever heard… Many people have told us that it sounds more like a 5150 amp to them than a distortion … Read more

Here’s the Lovepedal Les Lius Overdrive, built to emulate the classic light overdrive tones of the vintage Fender Amps. The Lovepedal site has this description: “This handmade guitar pedal features a three way toggle switch that allows you to change tones from 5E3 Woody (Tweed Fender Deluxe), High Power Twin (50’s Fender Twin) and Master … Read more

Here’s another Mad Professor one. Here’s the marketing stuff from the Mad Professor website: “The new Mad Professor – Stone Grey Distortion (SGD) is a modern high-gain distortion pedal with unparallelled clarity and definition. This pedal was developed for high gain applications and specifically for clarity at heavy distortion levels. The Stone Grey Distortion is … Read more

The Bearfoot/BJF Model H is supposed to do that “Hi-Watt” tone but without requiring 200 valve driven watts and 100 12″ speakers to get there.. Hmmmm, well it does sound pretty nice. Here’s a quick demo to enlighten you: Well the schematic has been drawn up by WhiteKeyHole over at freestompboxes.org and here it is … Read more

The Mad Professor Blueberry is a bass overdrive that is based around the BJF Honeybee circuit. Lohstah over at the freestompboxes forum decided to trace one and this is what he found; Check out the Mad Professor page for more info or have a look at this youtube video; There is a full PCB layout … Read more

Here is a great project taken from freestompboxes.org – a simplified Klon Centaur, essentially the same circuit as the original minus the charge pump. Each part of the circuit has been modified to ensure it has exactly the same response as an original unit. It was designed by mictester (if you pop over to the … Read more

I love Mad Professor and BJFe pedals, almost all of them are interesting designs and useful in a *band situation*, Bjorn does a great job designing them. The Sky Blue Overdrive has been dissected by the guys at Freestompboxes and, as per, it’s a pretty interesting design with a structure (after that standard gain stage) … Read more

Culturejam over at freestompboxes.org has ripped open the Lovepedal Superlead, guess what he found; a Marshall Guv’nor minus the tone controls 🙁 Boo. Still sounds pretty good though. Here’s the schematic he came up with; (D1 & D2 are 1n4001 type) Here’s some of the description from the Lovepedal site (apparently these pedals are only stocked … Read more