Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I’d love to get the Lovepedal Englishman / Death of a Vox reverse engineered and see what’s going on inside. If anyone has one they are willing to take apart and take a few high-resolution photographs of I’d be forever grateful. My email is fredbriggs2007 [ at ] googlemail [ dot ] com. Thanks 🙂 … Read more
Here is a project for the Wampler Pedals “Triple Wreck” super high gain distortion pedal. The Wampler Pedals site provides this description: “This pedal is probably one of the tightest, thickest highest gain distortions you have ever heard… Many people have told us that it sounds more like a 5150 amp to them than a distortion … Read more
Here’s the Lovepedal Les Lius Overdrive, built to emulate the classic light overdrive tones of the vintage Fender Amps. The Lovepedal site has this description: “This handmade guitar pedal features a three way toggle switch that allows you to change tones from 5E3 Woody (Tweed Fender Deluxe), High Power Twin (50’s Fender Twin) and Master … Read more
Here is a nice little pedal from BJF effects – the Sea Blue EQ. There is a long description provided by BJF: “The SBEQ is an EQ Booster pedal, with some light distortion capability. EQ range is set in between that of most amps tone controls so as to make a good sound better.You can … Read more
Here’s another Mad Professor one. Here’s the marketing stuff from the Mad Professor website: “The new Mad Professor – Stone Grey Distortion (SGD) is a modern high-gain distortion pedal with unparallelled clarity and definition. This pedal was developed for high gain applications and specifically for clarity at heavy distortion levels. The Stone Grey Distortion is … Read more
The Bearfoot/BJF Model H is supposed to do that “Hi-Watt” tone but without requiring 200 valve driven watts and 100 12″ speakers to get there.. Hmmmm, well it does sound pretty nice. Here’s a quick demo to enlighten you: Well the schematic has been drawn up by WhiteKeyHole over at freestompboxes.org and here it is … Read more
All the projects have been updated with layouts (where available) new schematics and extra description/demo videos. Expect around 5-6 new ones online very soon as well – Specifically a few new BJF and Mad Professor effects, the Death by Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun and possibly one of my own 🙂
Here’s a great post from Bjorn of BJF effects on the Freestompboxes forum where he goes into detail on the tubescreamer circuit. The post is a few years old but if you’re interested in this sort of thing it’s a good read! http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=953
The Mad Professor Blueberry is a bass overdrive that is based around the BJF Honeybee circuit. Lohstah over at the freestompboxes forum decided to trace one and this is what he found; Check out the Mad Professor page for more info or have a look at this youtube video; There is a full PCB layout … Read more
I’ve decided to make a complete set of the Mad Professor designs that have been traced out. I’m a massive fan of Bjorn’s designs and always enjoy seeing all the little tricks he puts into each of his pedals. Here is the “Ruby Red Booster” traced over at freestompboxes.org; http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13106 . WhiteKeyHole takes the credit for the … Read more