Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Hope everyone’s staying safe and healthy. Today’s layout is a unique preamp booster from Spaceman Effects, the Atlas III. It uses some FETs I’d never heard of in conjunction with a couple low gain silicon BJTs (use something in the 175-225 hFE range). The switch controls the phase of your signal (it’s internal in the … Read more
Happy Fuzz Friday! Here’s the Spaceman Effects Titan II fuzz, traced by Dino (Digi2T). I simplified the polarity protection, removing the BS250 in place of a simpler 1N5817 diode. Transistors need to be pretty low gain—under 200 hFE. Should be an easy fit for a 1590B.
Here’s the Spaceman Saturn V boost pedal. It’s a pretty unique booster and uses depletion mode LND150N3-G MOSFETs. In original units, there are 2 resistors in series going to each drain of the transistors. They essentially create a 4.7k resistor using some really uncommon values. (It appears that the only reason for that is for … Read more
“Starting with the same germanium transistors as the much-loved original Sputnik, but with slightly different specs, we added a few slight tweaks to get very close to the sonic details of the original circuit. Many of the other parts in the Sputnik II are different but of same or similar value, including many vintage and … Read more
This week’s Fuzz Friday layout happens to be the 500th layout on the blog! So for #500 it has to be something cool, so here’s a really unique fuzz from Spaceman Effects–the Gemini III Dual Fuzz Generator. As the name implies, it has 2 sides: silicon and germanium. The Blend knob pans between the 2, … Read more