Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This should be a useful little circuit for a few people and will allow you to match JFETs VGS (or more precisely, the voltage at which RDS is 10K) when required in some phasers etc. Based on the information posted by RG here which should explain how everything works. Compact version with onboard sockets suitable … Read more
I’ve done a few layouts using this method, but thought it may be useful to include a little daughter board which will allow you to easily convert any existing positive ground effects to (daisy chainable) negative ground. Just de-solder the supply and ground wire from the existing board, and solder to this board, then take … Read more
I like these little “utility boxes” (Please take note! This circuit will not work as a blend for pedals that invert the signal polarity (or phase). For a few examples of such pedals; the likes of Dyna Compressor/Ross Comp and their derivatives and Marshall Bluesbreaker among others. The symptom of inverted signal polarity (phase) will … Read more
A simple mini blend layout based on Sean’s JFET schematic here: http://seanm.ca/stomp/minblend.html Will easily fit in a 1590A box and I probably wouldn’t even use a stomp switch with this because in the unblended position of the pot, this will essentially be just a JFET buffer. You could always add a mini toggle to bypass … Read more
This is one of those versatile builds that could be useful for a number of different tasks. Effects and dry signal in parallel, 3 channel splitter/mixer, 1 input 3 outputs for using multiple amps, 3 inputs into one output to use multiple instruments, convert serial effects loop into parallel … and so on. I made … Read more
From Moosapotamus: The ParaLooper is something every effects-using Bass player should have, because it will ‘Bassify’ any bottom sucking, high-passing guitar pedal out there. And, it’s pretty simple to build, too. Instead of just an effect loop pedal, this is actually a little mixer that blends your straight signal with whatever effect (or chain of … Read more