Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Here’s the Micro Vibe from VooDoo Lab—aka, welcome to jumper city. Always seems to happen with vibe circuits, but this one will fit in a 125B quite nicely. Pretty standard adpation of the old Univibe with speed and intensity controls. Set the trimmer to 250Ω (and be careful if you adjust it since there’s no … Read more
It’s Fuzz Friday once again, so here’s the VooDoo Lab Superfuzz. Despite the name, it’s not based on classic Univox fuzz circuit with the same name. Rather, it’s a highly modified Jordan Bosstone with an added EQ section. One interesting thing about this one is the fact that Q2 (PNP) has the emitter going to … Read more
The Sparkle Drive is a very versatile drive pedal, offering everything from clean boost to full on dirty Tube Screamer tones. The Clean blend allows you to layer both clean and dirty sounds (kind of like playing through two amps, one clean and the other dirty). One of these has lived on my pedal board … Read more
Often forgotten and overshadowed by one of it’s derivatives, the VooDoo Lab Overdrive is the basis of the famous Fulltone OCD. The main differences between the 2 circuits is the clipping (OCD uses 2 Mosfets) and the added tone control of the OCD. On an somewhat unrelated note, I’ve had a lot of people having … Read more
Another request from quite a few people and I suspect this will be another of those pedals which is equally popular with the bass guitarist. Info from the manufacturer about their original: Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive is an overdrive pedal featuring a unique “clean” control. Its overdrive circuit provides the same tone as a vintage … Read more
Voodoo Lab’s info: This vintage overdrive circuit, originally built in the early ’70s, delivers singing sustain on leads and crisp, tight bass on chords. Turn the gain down to provide tons of clean boost for overdriving vintage tube and non-master volume amps. Medium gain settings add tube-like harmonics for fatness and warmth. Higher gain settings … Read more
