SoulSonicFX – Stage Overdrive
A great sounding overdrive by Soulsonic from the FSB forum. You can find the original thread here.
Overdrive
’64 Vox Tone
Here’s a little overdrive designed by Fred Briggs of the La Revolution Deux blog. Here’s what he had to say about it. Here’s another (nearly) new one from me. It’s a tricked out super mod of the old Electro Harmonix LPB-1 circuit that produces some lovely singing overdrive tones reminiscent of an old VOX from their 1960’s … Read more
Jon Patton’s Snow Day Overdrive
Here’s a cool design by Jon Patton (seriously though, everything he designs is pretty awesome). He was kind enough to share his work and offer a full circuit explanation over on DIYSB and Madbean’s forum too. Check out the thread here or here for his schematic and other goodies.
Lovepedal Superlead
The Superlead is Lovepedal’s take on the Marshall Guv’nor. It has a simplified tone stack compared to the Guv’nor, but has a switch to select between silicon diodes and LED for clipping. Great for 80’s metal tones. On an unrelated note, I made a Facebook page for the blog. I figure you guys can post … Read more
Bass FuzzDrive
Here’s a cool bass fuzz designed by Derringer over on DIYSB. It’s based around the classic DIY Bazz Fuss with built in blending circuit. Derringer mentioned that it might need a booster after it. The good ol’ LPB-1 should do nicely. Just put it between the Blend pot and Volume pot. Here’s the schematic.
Zorg Effects – Glorious Basstar
Here is a great bass overdrive by Zorg Effects. Gabriel, its creator, shared its schematic on FSB for everyone to use. You can find the original thread here If you want to have a look to his other projects or buy any of his PCBs, you can check his website: www.zorgeffects.com 30/11/2015 – Layout updated! … Read more
Catalinbread Formula No. 5
The Formula No. 5 is a 5E3 Tweed Deluxe amp emulating overdrive pedal. It’s essentially 2 JFET stages (very similar to the AMZ Booster) with the Tweed Deluxe tone and volume (in this case gain) controls in between. A master volume pot is added at the output for more control. Here’s a great demo of … Read more
Tokai Metal Driver
The Tokai Metal Driver was built in Japan in the early-mid 80s and is very similar to the Pearl OD-5 of the same era. In some ways it’s basically a Tube Screamer, with the same input/output buffers, but the tone control is rather unique and the sound is apparently very different from your standard TS-9. … Read more
Madbean Flabulanche / Snow Day Overdrive-Compressor
Here are Jon Patton’s original Snow Day Overdrive and Madbean’s modified version (Flabulanche). You can find all infos on Brian’s website: http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Flabulanche/Flabulanche_2015.pdf Jon Patton’s video: – 2n5457s are biased around 12V.
TubeSound Overdrive
Here’s a simple one-knob drive that’s ripe for modification. It uses an interesting combination of one NPN and one PNP silicon transistor stacked together. There are a few different values you can tweak to taste. Here’s a schematic for reference: The input capacitor (C1) could be increased for more bass. C2 could be increased to … Read more