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Lovepedal – Black Magic Distortion
Here’s the Lovepedal Black Magic (the photo shows a pedal board with the Black Magic in the top right corner). There is only sparse information on these around on the internet but from what I’ve managed to cobble together it was a pretty old design that was an attempt to get some Eddie Van Halen … Read more
Lovepedal – Pedal list
Here’s an interesting image that shows the Lovepedal product line and their deviations and similarities. Johann Burkard. It’s a couple of years old now and pretty out of date. But you can add items to it with the Freemind Mind Mapping software. Check out the original post and make additions to it here: http://johannburkard.de/blog/music/effects/lovepedal-pedal-list.html
Kurt Cobain – Nirvana Gear
[NOTE – This post includes projects for the BOSS DS-1, ProCo RAT, Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi, the Electro Harmonix Small Clone Chorus and the Little Angel Chorus] Kurt Cobain – arguably the last great Rock star. In 1991 Nirvana’s Nevermind changed the face of guitar music for good. The sound was pretty much unstoppable with the … Read more
Soulsonic FX – Hunny Bunny
Soulsonic makes some cool effects. The Hunny Bunny is one of the best. He’s released a schematic on the freestompboxes.org forum. First here’s the description from his site: “The Hunny Bunny is what I consider to be my first truly original design overdrive. The basic idea was to get away from the generic “Tube Screamer” … Read more
Top Tone – Light Drive / Pete Cornish SS-2
Pete Cornish has been at the helm of the stompbox production queue with clientele ranginf from Lou Reed to Noel Gallagher and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. The SS-2 is now discontinued and has been replaced with the SS-3. However the SS-2 remains a solid favourite and it looks like it’s circuit secret is out … Read more
Fred Briggs – Dual Band Vibrato
Here is a new design from myself. As far as I know it’s a concept that hasn’t been explored before (Although the Catalinbread Harmonic Mesmeriser uses a similar technique with an LFO running with opposite phase outputs to drive dual tremolo/vibrato circuits). Essentially the signal is split into two parallel paths – one path for treble and … Read more
Joyo – Ultimate Drive / Freakish Blues – Alpha Drive
Joyo (Which have been rebranded Harley Bensonpedals are all the rage around the Boutique scene at the moment. It’s common knowledge that the Freakish Blues Alpha Drive is just a repainted Joyo Ultimate Drive. However, the Ultimate Drive is just a clone of the Fulltone OCD (Which itself is a close copy of the Voodoo … Read more
Dunlop – JH-F1 – Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face
Jimi Hendrix, not much to say really. He invented guitar tone. Here’s an offering from Dunlop that gives you the chance to recreate the awesome walls of fuzz carnage he used to create! Here’s a gutshot: And a video of this bad boy in action: AnalogGuru traced the schematic here: You can build it on … Read more
Zvex – Woolly Mammoth
The Zvex Woolly Mammoth is a Bass fuzz pedal designed by the boutique virtuoso Zackary Vex. It’s been in his product line for many years and has proven a popular effect for both guitarists and bass players alike. Here’s the description from the Zvex website: “Sensitive and touchy, This bass fuzz has tremendous bottom end and a … Read more