Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
From the source: Following the very well received Brute Drive, we are proud to introduce the newest pedal from EWS, the Little Brute Drive (LBD). From its small body, jumps out an intense distortion similar to its big brother, the Brute Drive. Its compact design takes us very little real estate. It will fit anywhere … Read more
Originally sold as the Lemon Drop, then the ZII, and now the Series 7. Description of the Series 7 from the source: Designed to mimic the unique overdriven tones of the rare Vox 4&7 series amplifiers in a small and easy to use stompbox. An unknown amp to most, the 4&7 series amps were most famously used by the … Read more
Next up of the Nine Volt Nirvana pedals is the BrontoBoost. From Joe. The new Brontoboost is a two stage booster/fuzz/OD/Dist unit that has a ton of different tones in it, all good! It goes from awesome treble boost like a British top booster, to fullrange boost, to very fat fuzz and everything in between. … Read more
Found this one on FSB and haven’t seen any layouts for it, so I thought I’d give it a go. Originals are in 1590A enclosures with the Tone and Volume controls as trimmers, but I’ve laid them out as external controls. There seems to be some discrepancy on the taper of the gain control in … Read more
Not much info on this. From what I’ve read from the BJFE forum is that the 3 knob Sparkling Yellow Overdrive was a short BJFE Customshop run that’s supposed to have that old school early American tones, think Fender Tweed, Blonde, and Brownface. Video of the 3 Knob Video of Bearfoot version of the 4 … Read more
Well as usual just finished a round of exams, so it’s time to start posting the layouts I did when I was taking study breaks. This time I’m going to space them out so there’s not a sudden flood. First up the 18v Colorsound Power Boost. Same topography as the Colorsound Overdriver, but ran at … Read more
Schematic was recently posted at FSB (Thanks Manfred!), but there are couple small things i decided to tweak for this layout. For one, the original has 4558 dual opamp in the circuit with other half left hanging. This layout has 741 in its place and the transistors are with more common pinout. Nice singing overdrive … Read more
By popular demand, here’s the BE-OD from Friedman, one of the best Plexi in a box pedals around. Well, not Plexi really. It’s designed to emulate the Friedman Brown Eye tube amp head. Laid this one out for board mounted pots, and it will fit easily in a 1590BB. More info can be found on … Read more
Pretty much a Colorsound Overdriver clone. Laid this out for a 125B (because of the dual footswitches) with board mounted pots. The boost footswitch bypasses the PreGain pot and only uses one side of a DPDT. Use the other side for LED wiring. If the off board wiring is confusing, check out the thread with … Read more
