Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info about the “original” modified Timmy: A firm natural overdrive with a pleasant silky sustain. An easy to handle overdrive with great sustain without any unnatural compression. It keeps the characteristics of the tones that the guitars naturally produce. The Jan Ray reproduces that great sustaining punchy clear tones of the blackface Fender amps from … Read more
A request. Info from ROG: One of the often overlooked Fender amps is the tweed-era Princeton. They are excellent guitar amps, especially for blues playing. The major drawback was the 4.5 watt output wasn’t enough to keep up with a band. Again, using the technique pioneered by Doug Hammond, we decided to try to capture … Read more
I was doing a request, and this one was so close to the one requested, so i thought i’d draw it up too. Mark has published this in the past and that one fits easily in B, but the one i’m posting now should be doable even in A… 🙂 This also features a trimmer … Read more
The “Vintage” control looks like something that is new to me… Video of Geiri’s build:
Info from Analog Mike about his silicon original: We have some BC108 and BC183 silicon transistors, and have been making silicon Sunfaces for several years now. The BC108 are in small metal cans while the BC183 are plastic. Silicon fuzzfaces came out in about 1969. Dallas Arbiter used both of these types in their Fuzz … Read more
Positive ground effect so as usual consider using the negative voltage inverter. Info from Analog Mike about his germanium original: We are now making these in our own cases, as the Analog Man Sun Face . They are hand-built in the USA in small gold boxes, with our own USA made SUNFACE circuit board, which … Read more
Info about the Maxon reissue: Originally released in 1979, the Maxon OD808 was one of the first tube-amp overdrive simulators to hit the market. Its smooth, creamy crunch tone caught on quickly, and helped to launch a long line of predecessors as well as imitators. Today, the OD808 design is without a doubt the most … Read more
Info about the original: The Yardbox™. A faithful sonic copy of the original Sola Sound Tonebender, purportedly the only distortion pedal used on Led Zeppelin’s first two albums. The pedal has no similarity to Jumbo, Supa, or the Vox Tonebender. Wide variation in tone and smooth dynamics at all volumes.
Original design by John Hollis, this version has been modified slightly to have a second vbias network specifically for the LFO IC with same value resistors as per Mark Hammer’s suggestion in an attempt to solve the ticking problem some people have experienced. Tweakers may want to add a Chorus/Vibe switch, and if so you … Read more
