Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Green Screamer is an overdrive pedal that produces a dynamic range of smooth and warm overdrive tones associated with vintage tube amps. Robust build quality and rugged engineering ensure that the Green Screamer will stand up to the abuse of life on the road. Other features include hardwire bypass, LED operation indicator, non-slip rubber … Read more
This one apparently has the same circuit board as the FX50. Original used TL062, so TL061 is probably the right chip for the job. Like FX50, the other half of the opamp didn’t touch the signal path when engaged at all, so i decided to go with a single.
Here’s DOD’s step up from FX50 🙂 Just finished building this. The pot tapers are not mentioned in the schematic, so i went with the usual tapers from most designs. However. Volume needs to be linear and drive reverse log to get the circuit act like the original unit. Other thing was the 470R resistor … Read more
Here’s DOD’s step up from OD250 – from around ’82. On the original unit, the chip used is TL022, which is low power dual opamp – But the other half doesn’t touch the effect side at all – It’s only used as a buffer for the bypassed signal. So i made the layout to house … Read more
Request. This is a One Knob Big Muff based on Joe Gagan’s schematic and values. It makes sense in a lot of ways because many people dime the gain controls anyway, but you may want to experiment with the 39K and 47n from Q3 collector to Q4 base to get the tone setting the way … Read more
Info about the original: Robin Trower is known for TONE. While working with Robin during his 2008 tour, I developed an overdrive truly worthy of the Trower namesake. Touch responsive, huge sounding, sustain for days… and crystal clear when the guitar’s volume knob is reduced for great live dynamics. Being that Robin uses Fenders as … Read more
Cool sounding dirty booster from Jon Patton: Clipper Ship Overdrive. This is a dirty boost cascaded into a FET-based booster (a tweaked version of R.G. Keen’s “SRPP,” based on the AMZ Mini Booster). The gain control goes from clean to fuzzy, but the pedal always cleans up with your guitar’s volume, making it a very … Read more
So as i was drawing up the Briggs’ designs… A new fuzz design from myself. It’s silicon transistor based but with a difference. I’ve been playing around with the old Vox Tonebender circuit for a while and this is what sprung from those experimentsTaking inspiration from the Fred Briggs Fuzz I made a few years … Read more
Simple, yet good sounding booster/OD, emulating the sounds of Black/Brown/Silver-face amps. This one can be run from 4.5V all the way up to 18V. So You could of course run it with 9V, but consider using a charge pump to double it up to 18V. And yes. I do believe it’ll work well with 5K trimmer 🙂 … Read more
