Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Just is a variation of a russian big muff. The base eq of the circuit is preserved i. e. dark, bassy and heavy but there is much more gain and volume on tap. There is also an old school inductor based Mid Boost circuit at the recovery stage that boost and saturate frequencies at 800Hz. … Read more
The Dinosaural OPA-101 Overdirven preamp is a variation (or improvement) on the Dinosaural Tube Bender. This is has the tone control like the the Aion FX version, but I did leave the output stage as a buffer as per the original. The filter itself is on the original which you can see on the schematic … Read more
Lovetone effects pedals are pretty legendary, and I have meaning to get around to some layouts for a while now. I thought I might start with the Brown Sauce, which is the least challenging. You can find the schematic here on Aion FX – also check out the rest of the Lovetone line that they’ve traced too, as … Read more
An out of production EQD overdrive that’s based on the Distortion+. From the source: The White Light Overdrive is based on vintage overdrives that defined the sounds of classic hard rock. This vintage voiced stompbox is similar to a vintage DOD 250 or MXR Distortion+, but don’t mistake it for a direct clone of these … Read more
Been awhile since a new post on the main site. Life can get in the way, but here’s a new one. Keep an eye out for more, we still here and going strong. From the Source: Descended from the Honey Bee, this one is capable of more dynamic dirt and quicker and thicker honey. If … Read more
Based on schematic avaiable at Deadend Fx. Layout for the Fuzz section HERE.
Pedro (WTFiCanBuildMyOwnPedals) came up with this distortion/overdrive a while ago. It takes elements from both DOD250 and Boss DS1 but it has its own thing going on. A bit less gain than a DS1 and cap values in the signal path is adjusted. The hard clipping diodes are a LED and a silicon diode for … Read more
This one is basically two OD circuits in one enclosure so I went with two separate board for the option to only have one in a smaller enclosure. The only differencies between the two channels is the value of the gain limiting resistor at the gain control, the hard clipping diodes and possibly the op … Read more
Here is a layout of an early version of D-120 OD. It is basically a J FET conversion of a Matamp GT120 with some interesting tweaks like diodes connected to the sources for some of the transistors. It also have a clean blend /summing amp circuit. The original had fixed resistors across drain and V … Read more
Schematic avaiable at FSB. Subbed the 6,8k Drain resistors for a couple of 50k trimpots for easier bias setup.