Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
A nice little Belton Brick reverb build here. As described by cj: This one is pretty simple. It’s the new smaller Belton/Accutronics brick and a quad op amp, a Reverb Mix control and a tone control I’m calling “Dampen”. It’s a dead-simple low-pass filter right off the brick’s output (or rather, one of the outputs) … Read more
Requested. This is a slightly modified Triangle clone that some others may also be interested in. The original used buffered bypass and FET switching but this has removed those components and is designed to be used with external mechanical bypass switching of some description such as a 3PDT stomp switch. The scheme that I did … Read more
Actually a very nice sounding tremolo rather than the effect the name suggests. A clone of this is currently being sold by a company called Mahoney and they wrote: In the late 60’s, Jordan offered an incredible sounding tremolo unit that was housed in the plug-in style box like the Bosstone. There were less … Read more
Manufacturer’s info about the original: Sheer raw power. Dynamics that feel like a roundhouse kick to the chest. Incredibly responsive clean up with the flick of the wrist. This is the WIIO. The WIIO is an overdrive inspired by the powerfully unforgiving British amps from the ‘70s. Its all right there at your fingertips – … Read more
The marketing: The Catalinbread RAH was built specifically to nail Jimmy Page’s gigantic guitar tone from Led Zeppelin’s legendary 1970 performance at Royal Albert Hall. At the time, in contrast to the Marshalls that he eventually came to be associated with, Page was using Hiwatt heads on stage, modified for a bit of extra gain. … Read more
Info from Catalinbread about the original: What do you call an effect that isn’t quite a Bit Crusher, or an Octave, or a Harmonizer, or a Ring Modulator, or a Lo-Fi dirt box/fuzz – but a bit of a blend of each? Yeah – we don’t know either, so we came up with “Harmonic Pixelator”. … Read more
There is an ongoing discussion on FSB about this pedal, because we know that there are some hidden surface mount components underneath the board, and so this is based on a best guess by Marc Ahlfs after some experimentation he did on the circuit. Info from Dunlop about the original: No one cares more about … Read more
Info from the builder: The Dyna Red is a classic distortion that immediatley sounds familiar. What sets the DRD apart is that it also manages to mimic the FEEL of a healthy plexibasketweaver. While it is known for its crunchy classic rock distortion – it also has a very tasty ‘just above driven’ sound that … Read more
Runoffgroove and Beavis Audio have been great resources for the DIY audio community for a long time now, offering projects and guidance which has helped many people over the years, me included. This is Dano’s take on a ROG project, a nifty little 0.5W amp that has a lot of fans out there, but with … Read more
