Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
The Folk Driver is the result of a challenge issued to me by Björn Juhl to design an original DIY overdrive project that has much of the character of his popular Honey Bee Overdrive. After some time listening to an original Honey Bee, I came up with the Folk Driver. Like the Honey Bee, this … Read more
Jack Orman’s DIY classic that has been inspiring many builders and businessmen alike over the years. Simple as Fuzz Face, but very big, strong, lively sound. There must be tens or even hundreds of variations around, just as there must be tens or even hundreds layouts around. Still we didn’t have this one covered yet. … Read more
Well. It was either the unused row or two resistors with 7.5mm pitch. Still pretty compact. The clipping diodes are placed so that you can pretty easily take them to a switch and play around with schottkys, LEDs….
It seems that not all of the sixties fuzzes were verbatim tonebenders. There’s not that much difference blueprintwise, but still noticeable difference. Some might want to clone this too… Geiri modded his build a bit to get its sound closer to his preferences. Some of you might want to try these mods out as well. … Read more
And a little clip with a small cap to tame the squeels and a LPB-1 with a trimmer at the output to fix the level issue. Your browser does not support this audio
I did this one ages ago and never posted it for some reason, so I may as well add it now. Info about the original: Ah! the Catalinbread Sagrado Poblano Picoso! The Poblano Picoso has many of the great features as the Super Chili Picoso except that the Poblano is tuned for an extended frequency … Read more
Request. Info about the original project in Practical Electronics: Of all the effects units for electric guitars, fuzz is undoubtedly the most popular and numerous designs have appeared in Practical Electronics and other magazines over the years. So why yet another fuzz unit? In principle fuzz is easy to produce; all one has to do … Read more
This is the biggest layout i’ve done to date. And believe me – four transistors and one dual opamp – that’s pretty much all you can fit in there, if you want to squeeze it into 1590B. Anyway. I know that in the first six hours of publishing this there will be at least one … Read more
From Mark Hammer: Based on the Voodoo Labs Overdrive pedal, this increases the gain and double clips the signal to provide very heavily distorted signal at the output of IC2 and less overdriven signal at the output of IC1. The tone control blends between the two outputs to morph between two very different sounding distortion. … Read more
Last one from Masaru Kubota’s schematics: This fuzz kicks ass. I revamped Roger Mayer’s Axis Fuzz and stuck on a phase stage to make the circuit sound like a tube amp. You probably notice the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face biasing configuration. You can use a regular low-pass RC network, ala the ProCo Rat, to make the circuit … Read more