Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Today is Bearfoot day. Info about the original For the Vox lover in all of us, Bearfoot FX has created the Emerald Green Distortion Machine- a pedal which captures the chimey, crunchy essence of the AC series amps and provides a faithful simulation of the Vox tone through a variety of amps. Used through a … Read more
There was a resistor missing from the schematic so the layout has now been fixed. If anyone has already built this then if you can add a 2K resistor somewhere between the germ transistor emitters and ground that should sort it out. Or you can use then fix layout John did at the bottom of … Read more
Great sounding tremolo here from Fran, and something for me to finally build with the batch of ICL8038 ICs I bought a couple of years ago! :o) To keep the size down and make it 1590B friendly I’ve done away with the rotary switch used in the original, and instead I’ve used a DPDT on/on/on … Read more
OK we already have this here essentially with the Lovepedal Eternity, but this was a request and using the Eternity as a template meant it took 2 minutes to do. This is Jack Orman’s circuit which pre-dates the Eternity and so the design that Sean was “inspired” by. Anyway I suppose it’s nice to keep … Read more
Request for vero version. Info about Fulltone’s slightly modified copy of Jack’s Mini-Booster circuit: This magic little box (the size of an MXR phase 45) is for the Purist, whether you’re a Guitarist, a Bassist, whether your thing is Jazz, Rock, Acoustic/Electric, or Heavy Rock. Not a distortion box, the Fat-Boost is a Class A … Read more
Request. Info about Jerry’s original guitar with inbuilt electronics Tiger was Jerry Garcia’s main guitar from 1979 to 1989. It was built by Sonoma County luthier Doug Irwin. The Tiger is named after the tiger inlaid on the preamp cover located on the guitar’s top, just behind the tailpiece. The electronics of Garcia’s Irwin guitars … Read more
And the bass version. This is based on the guitar version but with the passive changes to match the filters in the bass version. The diodes seem to have changed often in this, some with symmetrical mosfet/germanium combinations with a 1N34A in both directions and some with asymmetrical as shown here. Some with more than … Read more
Requested by a few people. Even at 22 columns wide it could still fit in a 1590B if you wanted, and the first person to do it wins the TagboardEffects Awesome Builder of the Week award! :o) But I wasn’t too bothered about the board size because I suspect most people will want to put … Read more
Request, and also for those who want another PT2399 based reverb pedal. Not one for the faint hearted with that many links and cuts! :o) One thing you will notice straight away is that this doesn’t have the usual 3PDT stomp switching to bypass the effect. Because it has tails, the stomp will just turn … Read more
