Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
[images of custom shop Super Duper 2 in 1 pedals – how cool is the butterfly?] Here’s a project I’m adding just because I get a lot of requests for the schematic – it’s the Zvex Super-Duper-2-in-1. Basically two cascaded Super Hard on circuits with a master volume control at the end. Here’s an internal … Read more
Here’s a great article by Dirk Wacker that has been online for a while over at http://www.premierguitar.com. It’s basically a discussion of the most popular mods that can be performed on your good ‘ole Tube Screamer – op amp changes, fatness mods, tone shifts, clipping options e.t.c. Here’s the link, check it out: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2007/Jan/The_Ultimate_Tube_Screamer_Mod_Guide.aspx
Here’s the Lovepedal Englishman, supposedly an emulation of the classic vintage Vox AC15 / AC30 amps while they’re going through meltdown. It’s been a popular pedal and it can’t be denied that the demo videos do make this thing sound very pleasing. Here’s a more in depth description from the Lovepedal website: “The ENGLISHMAN™ simulates … Read more
There’s been an anonymous donation to the freestompboxes forum – the Lovepedal Englishman. There’s a preliminary schematic along with some pcb images up in the thread here: http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=15940 So far it’s a basic transistor buffer with a diode switch…. I’ll be putting up a full project when we’re verified 😉
The OKKO Dominator is a super high gain distortion machine from Germany. I love those massive LEDs they have as a status indicator. They also sound pretty damn mean too! This thing is in the same ball park as the Wampler Triple Wreck – that gives you some idea of the amount of gain this … Read more
The Carl Martin Plexitone has been around for yonks (good word!) and has remained popular with it’s high gain tones and wide versatility allowing the Plexitone to cover most bases required when playing anything other than Folk (Yuk) music. Here’s the description from the Carl Martin website: “The Carl Martin PlexiTone, is as the name … Read more
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1822991/The%2BCookbook.pdf http://fileshare.eshop.bg/equipment_mfg/books_41.html There are a couple of links to sites where you can download the pdf of Nicholas Boscorelli’s “The Stompbox Cookbook”. Just a year or so ago this book was selling for hundreds second hand and it’s out of print so no one could access all the info inside without shelling out the $$$. … Read more
Brunetti are an Italian company who make some really great sounding amps and stompboxes. The Mercury Box is there overdrive pedal. Here’s the description from the Brunetti website: “Mercury Box is the new Brunetti overdrive/ distortion stomp box. A small metallic box holds together the qualities of the well-known CustomWork Mercury’s channel 2! It is … Read more
The Penny Pedals Fingerprint has been out for a couple of years and is a decent sounding overdrive pedal that can do full on octave glitch fuzz when the texture and gain knobs are set in the right positions. Here’s the *long* description from the Penny Pedals website: “My newest pedal is a collaboration between … Read more
The D*A*M Meathead has been used by many top guitarists – Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age is one. Taking that into account you can imagine what this thing sounds like – it’s a massive fuzz tone! Here’s a description from the D*A*M website: “The Meathead. Often imitated, never surpassed. Little box, big … Read more