Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Pete Cornish ST-2 is a Colorsound Overdriver with a few mods. The ST-2 is intended to be a tone-shaper; it’s not actually an overdrive. So if you are looking for dirt, you have come to the wrong place with this one. Although one can make a few tweaks to bring some dirt to this, but … Read more
Like the very lengthy title below suggest, it’s a Pete Cornish SS-2 with mods. After finishing the SS-3, they’re almost the same, so I thought I would also do a SS-2 layout. Changes Swapped the Cornish buffer for a standard opamp based buffer Ran the reference voltage through the spare opamp Used a quad opamp … Read more
The Pete Cornish SS-3 is one of my favourite overdrives – so I thought I might make another one with a different layout and buffer. Changes Swapped the Cornish buffer for a standard opamp based buffer Ran the reference voltage through the spare opamp Used a quad opamp instead of 2 x single op amps … Read more
A 3DPT or a 2DPT switch can be used for this. Pete Cornish uses a 3DPT, perhaps because he solders the LED circuit to the switch pins – who knows… I added secondary power filtering on the buffer, which of course, can be easily removed if you already have it on the effect circuit. Stating … Read more
Just a little Cornish buffer that I use for buffered bypass / Pete Cornish builds. It’s small enough to sneak in at the bottom of an enclosure below the foot switch or standing upright against the side. PETE CORNISH BUFFER – VERO LAYOUT I sometimes add an extra row for additional power filtering – … Read more
This has now been traced by Aion FX – it turns out the NG-3 is very different to the NG-2. Miles apart… While this still makes for a decent fuzz, it’s NOT a NG-3. Layouts have been removed for this reason. Here’s the link to the trace The Pete Cornish NG-3 is pretty much the … Read more
It has now been traced by Aion FX – updated layout can be found here. The Pete Cornish P-2 is somewhat of a mystery as it’s never been traced, so all information is gleamed and guessed from various sources. It seems that no one, including myself, wants to pay top dollar to de-goop what we all … Read more
The Pete Cornish G-2 is a Big Muff variant: germanium diodes, double buffered, and sporting a low-pass filter instead of the usual Big Muff tone stack. That being said, this is not your standard Big Muff – there’s little resemblance in sound, largely due to the lack of scooped mid-range provided by a standard Big … Read more
The Pete Cornish CC-1 is an interesting one – two stages of soft clipping and a three-band active tone stack. I initially built and tested the CC-1 using the larger of the two layouts below, and I can’t say that I immediately loved it at the time. Regarding others in the Cornish line-up, I preferred the … Read more
The Pete Cornish SS-2 Soft Sustain is Pete’s interpretation of a MXR Distortion + and it’s not a bad one at that (it’s very nice actually). If you prefer a bit more control, try the SS-3, as it has bass and treble controls. The same overall sound, just more tweakable (if that’s a word). … Read more