Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
More Death by Audio, this time it’s the Robot pitch shifter. My description? It’s crazy. Words cannot explain this thing, just have a listen to it (more ProGuitarShop, are there any pedals these guys haven’t had?): Here’s the description from the Death by Audio website: “The Robot is a low fidelity 8 bit pitch transposer … Read more
The Mad Professor Forest Green Compressor. Anyone who knows me knows I love a good compressor and the Mad Professor Forest Green Compressor is just that – a damn good compressor. It’s got a great tone to it and the tone control and compressor / sustain switch adds versatility too. Here’s the description from the … Read more
Death by Audio make some mad pedals, this is one of them – it creates some of the most unholy fuzz tones ever heard. Strange choice for The Edge from U2 to stick in his rig but aparently he has! Here’s a description from the Death by Audio website (I don’t know why it’s all … Read more
The Lovepedal Karl, it’s actually a pretty cool sounding fuzz box – it sounds sweet at low gain and with a higher gain there’s octave and ring mod tones too, it’s really fun to play with. This is the older “two knob” version (there is a newer 3 knob variant that includes a tone knob). … Read more
[Note – This post also contains info on the Landgraff Clean Boost] I didn’t realise I hadn’t put up a post for the Zvex Super Hard On – it’s one of my favourite little circuits. It’s a great booster and also a really good building block when you’re designing circuits… Here’s the description from the … Read more
Well, yet another Lovepedal on the chopping bench – the Kalamazoo. Ok so what we know – it’s a tubescreamer derivative. Check out the tones on the demo video: Some circuit board images were donated to freestompboxes.org and a retrace begun. WhiteKeyHole produced this schematic: As you can see it’s a straight tubescreamer derivative. There … Read more
The Lovepedal OD Eleven, one of the latest overdrive offerings from Sean over at Lovepedal. It’s caused quite a bit of hype as usual and plenty of people got interested in it. Here’s a description from the Lovepedal website: “Harmonically rich, perfectly tuned, transparent overdrive unit that delivers fat, organic tone of an overdriven tube … Read more
The Lovepedal Amp Eleven, a relatively new offering from Sean over at his Lovepedal Boutique. He’s got a description up on his website: “With the AMP ELEVEN™, Lovepedal guru Sean Michael has really nailed the fat, organic tone of an overdriven tube amp – with separate controls for bass and tone. Then, he couples the … Read more
I’ve had quite a few email’s requesting information on this old Lovepedal design that’s supposed to emulate that classic “Fender on 6” tone. Well, I’ve got a schematic for you. First here’s the description from the Lovepedal website: “Reminiscent of the mid 60’s Blackface Fender era. Specifically a Blackface Super on 6. Plug the Super … Read more
[Note – this is the newer Bigfoot Magnavibe, without the tremolo switch – Note] Now here’s an interesting one inspired by the great old Magnatone amps. I really like the sound of this thing from Bearfoot FX, here’s their description (taken from the Bigfoot FX website): “The Magnavibe was inspired by the early 1960’s vibrato … Read more