Tim Escobedo Harmonic Jerculator
Tim Escobedo’s take on the rare Harmonic Percolator. Simple with no mojo parts in sight.
Overdrive
King Tone The Soloist
Requested quite a few times. Clémtent got hold of one for a repair and while he was at it he traced it and drew a schematic. He even built a clone and it sounds spot on. Note that both 220nF caps are tantalums in the real units but film caps will sound identical. … Read more
OKKO Diablo Boost+ version
Several versions has been made of this great sounding overdrive and this version is called “Boost+.The layout is based on the schematic at FSB but I took the liberty to do some changes that could be useful. First, the J FETs remains to be unknown so I added a Bias trimpot to be able to … Read more
HUDSON ELECTRONICS: Broadcast, Peach Guitars Version
This is the Peach Guitars version of the Hudson Broadcast, as traced by V1nce69 and posted on the Guitar FX layout forum. Others also did work on tracing in this thread, so sorry if I left anyone out. Lots of great gut shots and a bunch of measured voltages there too. The layout is basically … Read more
Redson 12 Overdrive
Here is a quite rare old japanese low to mid gain overdrive that is supposed to sound really good. A big thanks to Tobias for the trace!
FAIRFIELD CIRCUITRY: Barbershop V2
The Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop is one of my favourite overdrives, although I am yet to try this version. There’s some subtle difference to version one, and it has a tone control, similar to the Millennium version. I think the most significant difference is the change to the output buffer. FAIRFIELD CIRCUITRY BARBERSHOP VERSION 2 – VERO LAYOUT TEARDOWN & SCHEMATIC … Read more
RAMBLE FX: Marvel Drive 2.2
Suggested as a favourite along with the Wampler Plexi-Drive by Ding on another post, so thought I would take a look at the Ramble FX Marvel Drive 2.2 They’re clearly going for a Marshall vibe, and they have some success capturing this through the sound of the video demos. RAMBLE FX MARVEL DRIVE 2.2 – VERO LAYOUT RAMBLE … Read more