Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Some info about the original: The Tube Screamer might be the most popular and famous overdrive pedal ever made. Made popular by SRV and countless others, the TS-808 (and its derivatives) have become legendary. When we designed the Plush® Cream™, we sought to produce a pedal with the 3-knob simplicity of this classic pedal, while … Read more
I guess this should be posted here as well. My take on the TS clipping amp with some changes. Brief description and some discussion at FSB.. Due to nature of relatively high gain and the input buffer design, i recommend using a switching jack that’ll ground the input jack tip when plug is not present. … Read more
Got a request for the BB Preamp, but not the current version. The earlier version uses a dual-gang pot for the Level control and apparently more bass response. Like many of Xotic’s offerings the BB owes a lot to the classic Tube Screamer. Schematic can be found here. If you’d prefer to build the newer … Read more
Apparently it’s Tube Screamer week. This is Run Off Groove’s adaption of the classic overdrive to work around a CD4049UBE CMOS chip. More info, schematic and sound clip here. As you can see in the schematic, there’s a resistor (RX) where different values will work for different guitar pickup types: 100k for single coils, 220k … Read more
The TS10 was apart of Ibanez’s mid-80s Power Series of pedals. It’s slightly different than a TS9 with an added resistor before signal hits the opamp and a bigger capacitor coming off the volume control. Otherwise not too much is different. I’ve laid this out for 9mm mini pots that can be board mounted from … Read more
Not that common pedal up here in europe. I guess it’s the same with U.S. Anyway. Somewhat interesting take on a TS/OD808/SD-1.
One last one, for tonight. From RnFR: well, i came up with another dirt pedal the other day. lately, i’ve been experimenting with mixing different types of transistors together to achieve new tones, and this one kind of takes that idea to the extreme. it’s designed under the premise that the stages increase in breakup … Read more
Continuing with the layouts I made that day. Here’s the fifth version of the dirty boots. It’s a germanium overdrive based on the first version, there’s an additional pre-gain pot that controls ho much signal is entering the effect.
So the other day I was looking over some of the info RnFR has posted on Apocalypse Audio and came across some pedal designs that caught my eye. I ended up sitting and doing a couple layouts for a few of them. Here’s the sixth version of the dirty boots. It’s a germanium overdrive based … Read more
