Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
“The Microtubes B3K is an unusual tool – a perfect combination of brutality and clarity. It delivers defined and powerful saturation in an intuitive format. There are no rules and no limits, so dig in and unleash your tone. ControlsLevel: Sets the volume of the overdriven signal.Drive: Sets the amount of saturation in the overdriven … Read more
Very little info around on this late 70’s / early 80’s unit. Check the FSB thread for details. I snatched the image off from fxdb… Now. What’s this all about.. The way i see it, we have a buffered OD250/Dist+ gain stage (including clipping diodes shunt to ground), followed by a sort-of active BMP tone … Read more
Not much info around of this japanese “Marshall in a box” type distortion. It does sound pretty good though.. Junko seems a bit nervous on the demo.
Damn i like this brand. Cool, great sounding designs and lots of them. And i was surprised the schematic was up at their site. I only have a few originals, but i’m strongly tempted to get more.. Info from Catalinbread: We combined the best elements of a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion … Read more
“Designed by tone-guru-to-the-stars David Friedman, the BE-OD overdrive pedal faithfully captures the sonic impact of Friedman’s legendary BE-100 amplifier–known in some circles as the Brown Eye, and favored by serious musicians the world over. The BE-OD overdrive delivers authentic tube amplifier sound from a compact pedal with the controls needed to shape your tone, including … Read more
Description and info at freestompboxes. Seemed like a nice vintage fuzz adaptation and thus, a cool addition to our library.
From the source: A revelation. Stripped down all out amp pusher. The Revelation has a trio of controls. Pre Gain, Gain, and Volume. LOTS of volume. Pre Gain sets the overall gain level of the device, the gain control dials in the correct amount of distortion and the volume knob absolutely slays the front end … Read more
Essentially the oath is the Black Arts Revelation Superbass without any knobs. After VisualFuzz found an image of the Oaths board, and having to enhancing it to see the resistor values without the image being distorted I’m pretty certain that I’ve got the values and placements for the resistors to replace the pots. ‘
I know, I know. Another day another layout from me. I mean Jez, can’t I let one of the other guys post a new layout for once this month? You guys must be sick of seeing my name pop up with a new layout… Anyways, this time I decided to do something different the the … Read more
From the captain: Dig it. Black Dust. The Black Acid pre-set to fold air. Fuzz and drive, wide open. Maximum attack, minimized footprint. Fuelled with the same PCB as the Black Acid, British made Magnatec BC109’s, Arcol carbon comps, BC/Vishay capacitors, prime cuts all the way. For those not familiar with this circuit type it … Read more