Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
They don’t come much more straightforward than this – said to be a Dick Denney design, the Colorsound Fuzz Box is a one-knob silicon fuzz face with a couple of value tweaks, but other than that, you know what you’re getting here. This circuit is also found in the Vox V1141 Super Beatle solid state amplifier. … Read more
I couldn’t find a layout for the FS-77 anywhere, but I did find some photos online, so I decided to try and trace it back in November 2020. I thought I had it, but when I looked at it again recently, I noticed the input didn’t look right. The caps were the wrong way around for … Read more
This hybrid Tone Bender MKII is a more budget conscious offering from Sola Sound (Macari’s) via David Main of D*A*M and it uses NPN transistors, which is a bit of a bonus. SOLA SOUND TONE BENDER MKII PROFESSIONAL SILICON HYBRID – VERO LAYOUT Watch out for the hard to spot cuts under the 470 ohm … Read more
And I thought some of my layouts were big… The D*A*M Head Buzz is a standard Fuzz Face clone made in limited numbers for a Japanese Guitar shop. D*A*M HEAD BUZZ – VERO LAYOUT
I’ve already done a point to point layout for the D*A*M Red Rooster Booster (which I love by the way), but as I’m on a run of D*A*M layouts today, I thought I might do this one too. Like the rest, this is not my layout; it’s a close copy of the D*A*M layout. If you want … Read more
This is an interesting one – I started this layout thinking the D*A*M Greasebox GB-88 would just like the others. It mostly is, but it gets a little odd in the tone section. When I was looking at photos of the GB-88 to copy the D*A*M layout, I noticed that there’s no resistors to ground … Read more
This is a departure for D*A*M – for one, it’s silicon, and two, it’s a regular negative earth circuit. So the Greasebox 83, is quite different to the other Greaseboxes. This is not my layout; this is about the same as the D*A*M layout from what I’ve managed to work out by looking at pics … Read more
The D*A*M Greasebox is kind of a hot-rodded Tone Bender MKIII. It just takes a 100n cap straight off the collector of Q3 and runs to the volume instead of passing through the usual Tone Bender tone control. This is not my layout; this is about the same as the D*A*M layout from what I’ve … Read more
I’ve officially run out of things to say about D*A*M Tone Bender variations. The Black on Black has a larger coupling capacitor and a larger capacitor on the treble side of the tone pot, resulting in a lower cut-off on the high-pass filter. It will have a far more meaty mid-range than a regular MKIII. D*A*M … Read more
Another variation from D*A*M on the MKIII / MKIV Toner Bender. D*A*M FUZZSOUND FS-75 JR – 0.15″ VERO LAYOUT