Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
This is the LFO / modulation section from the Keeley Magnetic delay – I will try attaching this to the Earth Quaker Devices Disaster Transport Jr, and hopefully get some tape-like warble happening. They’re both PT2399 based delays, so in theory, this should work. LFO FROM KEELEY MAGNETIC DELAY – VEO LAYOUT
Just putting together some options for some leftover 0.15″ vero – and I was going to do a standard Fuzzrite, but I ended up doing this instead – which is of course the Ghost Effects Lunar Incantation. GHOST EFFECTS LUNAR INCANTATION – 0.15″ VERO LAYOUT GHOST EFFECTS LUNAR INCANTATION VIDEO DEMO
Another Tone Bender MKIII / MKIV variant – is the Park Fuzz Sound. I’d already done a P2P layout, so I thought I should also do a standard vero layout. As maybe one other person and I have used the P2P layout… I guess the most obvious difference is the lack of Fuzz pot – apart from … Read more
This is an interesting one – the Zvex Machine uses Mosfet boosters into a pair of transistors in a push-pull configuration designed to generate cross-over distortion. Apparently, it doesn’t do much on its own but likes to be paired after a fuzz to shine. ZVEX MACHINE – VERO LAYOUT MACHINE VIDEO DEMO
I recently tried building an ABY box with isolating transformers on the outputs, and I just could not get it to work (well, everything worked, apart from the constant buzzing that I could not get rid of, which was incredibly frustrating). I then pulled out most of the components, just leaving the switching and LED indicators, which … Read more
Two new MKIII / MKIV Tone Benders finished over the weekend – the circuits have been finished for a while, just had not got around to boxing them up. Hopefully off to new homes shortly. Pity Gapco is now out of stock with these enclosures – I should have bought more when I had … Read more
After recently finishing a mojo size / vintage transistor Tone Machine that has been sitting on the bench for way too long, I decided to do a regular layout, as the practicality of some of my other layouts for the Foxx is probably not for everyone (maybe even me in retrospect). So I’ve done a standard … Read more
A nice easy one – the Analog Man Sun Face Fuzz, which is, of course, just a fuzz face with a couple of trimmers. One for bias, the other to help pull back on the input level, as a kind of false volume pot cleanup. Yes, it is a big layout for a fuzz face… … Read more
This is the Peach Guitars version of the Hudson Broadcast, as traced by V1nce69 and posted on the Guitar FX layout forum. Others also did work on tracing in this thread, so sorry if I left anyone out. Lots of great gut shots and a bunch of measured voltages there too. The layout is basically … Read more
I found this schematic a little while ago and thought I might give it a try, as I’ve been looking to make a single band parametric equaliser, in this case, based on a State-Variable Bandpass Filter. It’s supposed to be from a Japanese textbook, but I’m not sure of its origin. It looks remarkably similar to a … Read more