Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Original info: “The Friedman Dirty Shirley all-tube amp is well known for being one of the most flexible and touch-responsive single-channel amplifiers on the market. Now you can get that same tonal versatility, sensitivity and harmonically rich overdrive in a pedal. The Dirty Shirley Overdrive packs the same intuitive control set as the amplifier, allowing … Read more
Original info: “The Palisades is something we said we would never do… an overdrive based on the legendary TS808! Gasp! The horror! Another tubes creamer?? In 2014?? Really?? After loads of requests we finally buckled. We ran tests with every popular clone on the market as well as several vintage originals, compared, contrasted and took … Read more
Here is an 18V Big Muff version from the 70s. Original FSB thread and schematic available here.
Original Info: “CC Hybrid is one of the first pedals to use one germanium and one silicon transistor in the classic Fuzz Face circuit. CC Hybrid is a stand-alone pedal that contains the same Silicon/Germanium fuzz face circuit as the original Captain Coconut and Captain Coconut2. To my knowledge, it’s the first example of a … Read more
Another “requested” monster layout! At least this one doesn’t use any weird components. You can find all infos and schematic from their website here.
Apparently mimicing Mesa MKIV head’s distortion. Hadn’t seen this type of distortion control in a pedal before, so i thought this might be a nice addition. Has nice amount of gain and there’s room for tweaking. Update 12.9.2017 – Don’t know what was going on in my head with the original layout revision. It had … Read more
Schematic was recently posted at FSB (Thanks Manfred!), but there are couple small things i decided to tweak for this layout. For one, the original has 4558 dual opamp in the circuit with other half left hanging. This layout has 741 in its place and the transistors are with more common pinout. Nice singing overdrive … Read more
“Unlike traditional overdrive stomp boxes, the VH4 Pedal is a true preamp which delivers an authentic representation of its namesake – real Diezel tone – not emulated, not modeled, but sincerely reproduced. The entire signal architecture is faithful to the original: Bass, Mid, Treble and variable Deep and Presence controls allow you to tailor the … Read more
