Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Info from SD’s site: application The first effects pedal designed specifically to work together with the pickups in a guitar to achieve optimum gain and resonance for all tonal applications. Works with all musical styles. description By turning the gain control knob you can add pure, flat-EQ gain, ranging from 6dB to 25dB! The Resonance … Read more
Moving on from my last post, here the Clay Jones Overdrive gets the Lovepedal Eternity treatment by Fred Briggs. Fred has essentially done what Jack Orman did with the Tubescreamer when he published the Son of Screamer schematic, which was adopted pretty much verbatim by Lovepedal for their Eternity, and no doubt a good few … Read more
How come i can never seem to find any good info about these circuits 😐 Anyway. Here’s another 60’s “classic”. Ugly and mean. Simple, yet effective. Added both versions; Silicon and Germanium. Please take note that the Ge version is positive ground with PNP germanium transistors, while the Si version is NPN with negative ground.
One of the most sought after limited run boutique pedals ever, with them going for over $1500 on eBay, and surprise surprise ….. it was a Tubescreamer that had TGP creaming themselves. Nothing new there then.
This is the original Cook Spring Reverb design and not the “mark 2”. Any spring reverb tank should do just fine… So strike the above text. The tank type is crucial to get this design to work properly. I have no no idea what sort of tank it should be, so even though this is … Read more
Description from the General Guitar Gadgets site: Brown Sound In A Box version 2 (BSIAB2) is an excellent distortion pedal designed by Ed Guidry. Based on the AMZ MiniBooster cascading work done by Jack Orman and further refined by Aron Nelson and Doug Hammond. This is one of the best heavy Marshall-type distortion boxes that … Read more
Phew. This board almost made me crazy. There is “only” 28 cuts and 11 links, but i got down to only one resistor over one strip. This one is quite interesting. CMOS Hex inverter based BMP adaptation. A word about the circuit from ROG: This circuit was born with the idea of making a CMOS … Read more
Info from Runoffgroove about the project: Around 1965, Marshall introduced a few amps built around an 18 Watt EL84 powered circuit. While these models were intended for practice, the sound was much better than other small amps. Unfortunately, only a few hundred of these combos were manufactured over the next three years. These rare amps … Read more
A few of you were looking for good fuzz circuits…. Gus Smalley modded the circuit from Aron. Aron modded it from tonebender. Both made enhancements and mods along the way. Or so the internet tells me. Anyway. It’s supposed to be a silicon adaptation of the classic. It says 2N5089 on the schematic, but i … Read more
Requested by a few people, this is the pre-amp section of the rack mounted Korg SDD-3000 digital delay. One for the U2 fans who want to try to get a bit closer to The Edge’s tone. This one based on Analogguru’s schematic with a simplified 9V supply.