Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Hmmm this looks similar to something else too …. Sean told everyone that this wasn’t a clone of his “good friends” best selling pedal and was in fact a Kalamazoo. I’ll leave you to look at the following comparison and make up your own minds. Amp 11 / Timmy comparison: Amp 11 / Kalamazoo … Read more
A lot of people have said this is a great “Marshall in a box” and it’s a pretty simple circuit so worth a try. I did a big axial mojo layout for this a while ago, but have re-done it here using more commonly used (and space friendly) components. It’s funny but it occurred to … Read more
I had a request for a vero of the Mastotron, so here’s the Woolly Mammoth which is virtually the same, with the Mastotron just having an additional 100K linear pot which the input is taken to before the first capacitor. The new input wiring with the Relax/Pull pot can be seen on my tagboard layout … Read more
Like the last one, a bit of a pain but the Gary Hurst version is slightly more forgiving I believe. Again don’t forget to cut the trimmer legs that are shown over the -9V rail, there should be no connection there. This is based on the original Gary Hurst MkI because the reissue was … Read more
Updated 31st January 2014: A lot of people have mentioned that the trimmers in this aren’t as important as finding the correct transistors, so I’d recommend building this version which omits the trimmers entirely and puts the fixed resistors back. Make sure you use sockets for the transistors and prepare yourself to audition plenty! :o) … Read more
One for the metal heads or those looking for a bit more gain. The offboard wiring will be a bit of a pain though!
Here’s a more unusual effect. Playing chords it has a ring mod-ish quality to it, but played higher up the fretboard and using the neck pick up with tone control down gives a very prominent octave effect which sounds great. You’ll notice I shared holes for the diodes and a couple of the resistors, this … Read more
Here’s a version of the Clark Gainster for those who don’t want to use the massive paper-in-oil caps in the version posted previously. I only put in the large axial 100u cap because there was a bit of space in the bottom right of the layout and I had some that size. You can obviously … Read more
This is one of those versatile builds that could be useful for a number of different tasks. Effects and dry signal in parallel, 3 channel splitter/mixer, 1 input 3 outputs for using multiple amps, 3 inputs into one output to use multiple instruments, convert serial effects loop into parallel … and so on. I made … Read more
