Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here another classic fuzz, the Mosrite Fuzzrite. This is the silicon version. The original transistors were marked “TZ82” so be sure to use sockets and try a few different ones out. The original pots were 350k and 33k, which are going to be difficult values to track down. You can either use 500k and 50k, … Read more
Many associate this pedal with the fuzz tone for “Spirit in the Sky” by Prodigal Son, though I’m fairly sure that theory has been debunked. At any rate, it’s a great sounding fuzz, and should be a fairly easy build.
FSB forum member Nocentelli posted a schematic for this so I thought I’d draw a perf layout for it. Here’s what he had to say about it: “It’s a fuzz/distortion/dirt circuit designed by Dan Coggins (Lovetone + Dinosaural designer) for ETI magazine in 1993. Having breadboarded it, I like the sound a lot (like Timmy’s … Read more
I think Mark would have squeezed this in a bit more compact size, but i got it “down” to 21×29. So super brave folk may aim for 1590B, but rest of us may want to give this a go with 125B or 1590BB instead. Layout is based on a schematic which was provided with the … Read more
After checking a few things out, this turns out to be slightly modded Maxon DS-830 (thanks johnk for noticing). The 47p, 10n and 180n cap values are measured on board, so i’d suggest using sockets for those and see what values work the best for you. Anyway. This should be safe to build. Playing around … Read more
Since we’re posting tiny circuits today, i thought i’d post a recently traced booster. No input cap, no power filtering or any other modern day trinkets. Tiny booster with outside the box thinking in design. Thanks for trace to Bernardduur at FSB.
Request. It’s probably worth considering using 2 independent 500K log pots and separating the boost and drive sides. It seems a little restrictive to have them as a dual pot rather than being able to set their gain individually and of course it may also be preferable to make the toggle a stomp so that … Read more
Just a bit of a bonus utility layout really. I quite like perf with some things, and there’s no doubt you can get circuits more compact than with stripboard. I do find as a building medium it’s more of a pain with larger circuits as making the tracks as you go and trying to keep … Read more
Yes. It is big. I’ve omitted the complex power supply, but left most of the noise reduction measures in tact. Transistor controlled LED circuitry is also gone. With dual gang gain pot and the board size, this will be a tricky but doable fit in 1590B. Marketing spiel from ten years ago: Attention: Guitarist who … Read more
Yup. Vox made TS. I omitted the overly complex power supply section and transistor based LED operation. Input and output buffers are 2SC2389 in the original units. You could also use those instead of 2N5088/2N5089. Just mind the pinout. Schematic i have has the output pulldown resistor at 1K, which seems way too small for … Read more