Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
A nice easy one – the Electro-Harmonix Muff Fuzz, which has a lot more in common with a Fuzz Face than a Big Muff. At some stage I’ll add some more layouts, including the Mark Hammer mods and the IC version. ELECTRO-HARMONIX MUFF FUZZ – VERO LAYOUT
Here’s a nice silicon MKII variant from Reeves Electro – who are most famous for their insanely well made point to point construction fuzzes. Write-up from Reeves can be found here Schematic can be found here The voice (mids) switch is basically switching between a 10n and 100n coupling cap after Q1 (buffer). The … Read more
In Australia we have a lot of unusual sayings – one that comes to mind here is “you’ve been fleeced”. i.e. you paid too much money for something – specifically a Golden Fleece on the secondhand market when you can still buy perfectly good new one. The Mythos Golden Fleece is pretty much a … Read more
I came across this while browsing one of the usual forums recently and thought it looked like an interesting Rangemaster variant. Silicon or germanium transistor, variable boost, quiet, standard power supply… seems to have a lot going for it as far as treble boosters go. Here’s the thread on DIY Stompboxes (Peter is FSFX) … Read more
I’d somehow missed this one. The Ace Tone FM-3 Fuzz Master is similar to the Ace Tone FM-2 in looks and name, but that’s where the similarities end. The FM-2 is based on the Univox Super Fuzz and the FM-3 is a Big Muff variant. Schematic can be found here on Kit Rae’s BMP … Read more
The Sunn Buzz is an odd little fuzz from the mid-to-late sixties. It’s silicon and runs on a single AA battery (1.5v) with a topology vaguely similar to the Fuzztone. The design was fairly questionable – the fuzz box had to be plugged into the amp input jack, which would have been fairly limiting. … Read more
The AIWA TP-1011 is the reel-to-reel tape preamp Richie Blackmore from Deep Purple used to drive his Marshall. I’m not a huge Deep Purple fan, but I do like the sound of some of these old reel-to-reel preamps. This layout is for the stock circuit running at 18v. If I ever get around to breadboarding the … Read more
The Fuzztone is an early design of Dan Coggins before Lovetone or Dinosaural appeared. The first publication in ETI (Electronics Today International magazine) actually had an error on the schematic – it wasn’t critical, as it just changed the frequency response a little, and it lost some level along the way in the filter … Read more
I recall reading how most of the Mudhoney DIY builds were just not sounding right.. Recently re-traced on FSB by Kasper, from his V1.1 version of the pedal – there may have been a fault with the schematics that previously floated around the web. When i saw this, i thought “the switch shouldn’t work like … Read more
This one was recently traced on FSB and as i have a soft spot for Devi & Dwarfcraft circuits alone and together, i had to draw it up.. A bit like original Soda Meiser, or at least some revisions of it, but this time with a Chaos switch and a Drone-knob.