Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here is a great project taken from freestompboxes.org – a simplified Klon Centaur, essentially the same circuit as the original minus the charge pump. Each part of the circuit has been modified to ensure it has exactly the same response as an original unit. It was designed by mictester (if you pop over to the … Read more
Here are a few essential links for anyone looking to design their own effects circuits. These are just a few of the hundreds of pages that are useful and are the ones I tend to use most often. http://www.electronics2000.co.uk/calc/reactance-calculator.php – Capacitor Reactance Calculator http://www.muzique.com/lab/main.htm – Jack Orman’s brilliant Lab notes http://www.muzique.com/schem/filter.htm – RC Filter Cut-off calculator http://www.muzique.com/lab/buffers.htm – Basic … Read more
Is it a fuzz? Is it a distortion? Is it a delay? No it’s an Invading Cannibal Ladybird….. Hmmm. Here is the schematic for a crazy device I knocked up on breadboard. It’s a Cannibalization of the Parallel Universe from eaced.com, the big muff tone control and the lofi delay created by Allesz for last … Read more
Here is another Mad Professor pedal, one of the designs which has garnered the most interest around it. Well, it’s been gutted and reverse engineered. Unfortunately there is nothing new in the design – it’s a pretty standard PT2399 design based off the Rebote Delay 2.5 but it does sound very good. Here is the … Read more
I love Mad Professor and BJFe pedals, almost all of them are interesting designs and useful in a *band situation*, Bjorn does a great job designing them. The Sky Blue Overdrive has been dissected by the guys at Freestompboxes and, as per, it’s a pretty interesting design with a structure (after that standard gain stage) … Read more
Culturejam over at freestompboxes.org has ripped open the Lovepedal Superlead, guess what he found; a Marshall Guv’nor minus the tone controls 🙁 Boo. Still sounds pretty good though. Here’s the schematic he came up with; (D1 & D2 are 1n4001 type) Here’s some of the description from the Lovepedal site (apparently these pedals are only stocked … Read more
Brian of Wampler effects builds some great sounding dirt boxes. This one, as you can probably guess via the name, is supposed to emulate that much loved Marshall Plexi tone. It sounds pretty nice too: The guys over at freestompboxes.org had a little look at what goes inside one, find the schematic here (and some … Read more
Here is another one I get quite a few emails for – http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Kokbox/docs/Kokbox_ver.3.5.pdf (Note the project does not include the “Gate” section as it was deemed unnecessary.) It’s another brilliant ex-madbean project. Don’t forget to check out his wares at http://www.madbeanpedals.com . Here’s a basic schematic for reference: Guess what – yep, more cascaded Super Hard On gain stages … Read more
Here is one that I get emailed about quite a bit – full project for download here; http://www.mediafire.com/?r136bveqr9mdjy2 [NOTE on the schematic C7 is listed as 100n, it actually needs to be 10n] It’s an ex-madbean project – go visit his f**king brilliant site here for loads of DIY goodness; http://www.madbeanpedals.com Here is a schematic for reference: … Read more
This pedal had a load of hype around it when it was released a while back (A few years if I’m correct!) due to the fact that they got a decent review from proguitarshop on youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus8O7i_rZg, the psychedelic paint job the pedal received… With a hefty price tag of $350 it didn’t take long for the … Read more