Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
I was a little surprised when someone requested this, as I assumed that I would have already done it given my love of vintage size vero and Tone Benders. Anyways, here’s the short circuitboard version of the MKII Tone Bender. What’s this short circuitboard business? It’s thought to be the transition from the MK1.5 Tone … Read more
I thought a post was required for the silicon Zonk II, as looking at some schematics online, some appeared to be a little different. Being a pedal from the sixties, variations and tweaks were not uncommon. At the moment, this is probably best known as being the inspiration for the Reeves Zo. This is fun … Read more
The Top Gear Fuzz is a rare English Fuzz Face variant from the late sixties / early seventies. It’s a fairly awkward build as it’s on a tiny piece of vero, floating between the two pots. There seems to be a couple of versions floating around (like all a lot of vintage circuits). I have … Read more
The Earthquaker Devices Spires green channel is a variation of one of my favourite fuzz circuits – the Rosac Nufuzz. It’s a progression of a fuzzrite from the original designer, but it has a tone control on the output sweeping between a small and large cap to provide a thin to thick fuzz sound. There’s … Read more
Following on from the previous post, this is the D*A*M version of the Colorsound Fuzz Sound. Thread on the D*A*M forum can be found here. Basically take a D*A*M Fuzz Sound, and change the Fuzz pot to an internal trimmer. Unlike the regular Park 2 knob with a large 25u coupling cap between the darlington … Read more
The El Diablo… A Dave Main creation, part Sola Sound MK1.5 Tone Bender / part Vox Tone Bender – hence the MK1.75 moniker. And why El Diablo? apart from the colour, this thing sounds mean as hell. They appeared to use a couple of different transistors for Q2, but the OC75 remains up front – … Read more
Still on the Vox thing at the moment – just a little Distortion Booster using a variation on the Colorsound fuzz box layout. It’s the red box version, here’s the thread on FSB with the schematic etc. Like so many vintage effects, there seems to be a few versions of the circuit. VOX DISTORTION BOOSTER … Read more
This is a nice simple one, and a slight variation on the Colorsound Fuzz Boxes that I’ve been building lately. Basically a silicon fuzz face variant, which is a progression from their original booster that just had an on/off switch. VOX DISTORTION BOOSTER | 0.15″ VERO LAYOUT And if you’re wondering what’s going on with … Read more
Now this is mainly for my own purposes, as I doubt anyone else will want to build a Rat this way & I only plan on making one. Just a standard Rat, built on 0.15″ vero and I’ve prioritised looks of build practicality (or at least what I think looks good anyway). I have built … Read more
Someone mentioned this in the comments recently (thank you ClassicFuzz), so I thought I’d have a look at the photos on Reverb. The Goldie is a MKI in a MKII enclosure from March 2022, likely to be inspired by this unit found in Germany – which is an absolute train wreck of work. … Read more