Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Thanks to Matt for his schematic for this buffered Timmy. Info about the original: The Mayflower is a true bypass, midrange overdrive pedal that falls in-between the Voyager’s low gain preamp settings and the Iron Horse’s full and harmonically rich distortion. The Mayflower boasts a transparent, midrange signal that is great for cutting through or … Read more
Traced by our very own Miro (nice job buddy), and even though this is displaying an unusual lack of originality for EHX, I’m completely prepared to forgive Mike Matthews simply because it will upset Fulltone which is never a bad thing for me. Info about this Voodoo Lab Overdrive derivative: Rich, overtone laden sound that … Read more
And here are the working voltages from ξεναγός. Q1 – B 2,65 – C 8,67 E 3,06 Q2 – B 2,71 C 8,67 E 3,1IC1 – 1- 4,27 2- 4,34 3- 4,32 4- 0 5- 4,19 6- 4,27 7- 4,27 8- 8.69IC2 – 1- 4,27 2- 4,28 3- 4,28 4- 0 5- 4,04 6- 4,36 … Read more
Keith at BYOC reverse engineered a silver edition Klon when developing a PCB and noticed an error on soulsonic’s 2009 schematic which was a couple of swapped resistor values around the Treble pot. He also noticed a few value discrepancies which probably just amount to the difference between the gold and silver Klons. The swapped … Read more
Request. It’s probably worth considering using 2 independent 500K log pots and separating the boost and drive sides. It seems a little restrictive to have them as a dual pot rather than being able to set their gain individually and of course it may also be preferable to make the toggle a stomp so that … Read more
Yup. Vox made TS. I omitted the overly complex power supply section and transistor based LED operation. Input and output buffers are 2SC2389 in the original units. You could also use those instead of 2N5088/2N5089. Just mind the pinout. Schematic i have has the output pulldown resistor at 1K, which seems way too small for … Read more
The mellower little brother of CM Heavy Drive. Original units share the PCB with each other, but there are number of differences on the circuits.
Request, thanks to PedalBlotter for his hard graft in tracing the circuit. This is a bit of an awkward circuit to try to find a good middle point to do it on two levels (like my Muff layouts) and have an even spread of components on the board, so I’ve just done it in a … Read more
30th October 2014 – Put on hold pending investigation :o) Info about the original: The Earthquaker Devices Monarch Overdrive is an FET, all discrete dirt machine that will get you some truly vintage and organic overdrive. The Monarch Overdrive is based on a certain UK hard rock amp’s input stage that shares the same color … Read more
Another one that was missing from the library. Original units call for 2M pot for the overdrive control, but as the demo below suggest, the middle position of that knob should be mild enough. So i see no harm in using 1M pot for that instead. That’ll give you the latter half of the sweep. … Read more