Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Another take one the Bee Baa. Did a version a while ago called Pink Goat with a the notch filter tone setting reworked among other things. Here after some more tinkering we have Stone Bee. Compared to stock Bee Baa it has a bit more gain and less highs in all three gain stages. Tone … Read more
Had an old unverified layout that were pretty much trash. Got a request to build a stock Bee Baa so I drew a new layout for it. One useful mod is to raise the overall output for the fuzz section by jumper 47k and 68k resistors connecting to the Volume control on the on the … Read more
This one is interesting; it’s a bit MXR Distortion + at the front and a Big Muff tone control at the back. Here we have the Roland BeeGee – I have no idea where the name came from back then. That is an interesting choice from Roland. ROLAND AF-60 BEE GEE – VERO LAYOUT … Read more
Not one seen often in the wild – this is the fuzz section from the Roland AD-50 fuzz wah. ROLAND AD-50 DOUBLE BEAT – VERO LAYOUT
This is a bare-bones Roland BeeBaa. I built the full version and found that all I really used was the scooped fuzz sound – so this is just that. Nothing but unadulterated vintage Japanese fuzz…. I think this works best with low-gain transistors. I made a version using weird KT315 Soviet BCE transistors, and it sounds mean. … Read more
Slightly modernized version of a the old wierdo Roland AG-5 Funny Cat. Original had discrete op amps and a transistor emitter follower which for this layout has been changed to regular op amps. It is also modified for true bypass. Schematic and info HERE
My take on Roland AF-100 Bee Baa. Ditched the boost switch and one of the tone settings but added two new ones. “Highs” switch toggles between stock (middle position) and two settings that cut some highs:-). The other switch named “Notch” toggles between three settings in the twin notch circuit. Middle position has 10nF to … Read more
