Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The EAE Magic Missile is their take on a Devi Ever Hyperion, so expect some fuzz. You can find the schematic here. Note from EAE: best results were with a 2n2219A/2n2905A pair, which are functionally close to the 2n2222/2n2907 ELECTRONIC AUDIO EXPERIMENTS (EAE) MAGIC MISSILE The previous layout (V1) was missing the 10k resistor to ground … Read more
The Voodoo Labs Super Fuzz is a Boss Tone (Nashville version) with some serious tweaks – nothing to do with the better know Univox Super Fuzz. I’d suggest maybe breadboarding the Boss Tone section first before completing the full build. There’s certainly enough room on the board for a bit of experimentation if you don’t have a breadboard. VOODOO LABS SUPER … Read more
I found this one sitting in a folder from a while back, so I thought I would post it on the off-chance that anyone is interested. It’s very similar to an Ibanez SD-9. Vertex market the T Drive as a Trainwreck amp in a box – which is a massive stretch of the imagination. VERTEX … Read more
Could there be a better time than a super blood moon to post the Coda FX Black Hole Doom Machine? Yes, the super blood moon is a real thing, and it’s happening in my part of the world at the time of this post. Ominous astronomical omens aside – this is a JFET version of … Read more
I thought while I was at the Dead Astronaut X Rock, I may as well do an X Fuzz… It’s a nice easy pedal build, with some big sounding results. DEAD ASTRONAUT X FUZZ – VERO LAYOUT
The Dead Astronaut X Rock is a variation of the X Fuzz, which makes a mighty noise for a pretty small/simple circuit. It’s very loosely the first two stages of a Big Muff – so boost and clip with diodes across the base and collector. That’s about where all similarities end. DEAD ASTRONAUT X ROCK – … Read more
This is a nice easy one – think it might have been my first IC-based guitar pedal builds. The Earthquaker Devices Acapulco Gold is quite the beast. So loud… the 22k resistor going to volume 3 helps pull the level down a bit. It could even be a bit bigger or not there at … Read more
This is a modernised version of the Maestro Super Fuzz FZ-1S (unrelated to the Univox). It keeps the hard clipping and twin filters, but there’s no clean blend, which is OK by me, as who wants a clean blend on a fuzz anyway. DOD CARCOSA FUZZ – VERO LAYOUT CARCOSA VIDEO DEMO
Another Lovepedal, another Electra Distortion with big marketing claims… I found this one in my folders from a while back, so I thought I may as well do a quick update and post it incase someone is looking for an easy point to point effect build. LOVEPEDAL ENGLISHMAN – POINT TO POINT LAYOUT
The Inventions 1981 DRV is a modded Rat, and it’s a pretty nice one. If you wanted a more ‘hi-fi’ Rat, this would be it. It runs at 18v, which undoubtedly helps with the more open sound/dynamics compared to an original Proco Rat. There’s also a slight boost before the main op-amp, where the … Read more