Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
For Fuzz Friday here’s the newer and highly tweak-able Swollen Pickle from Way Huge. Like the Mk 1, originals use a MPQ3904 transistor array instead of individual transistors. Couldn’t make that work this time around, so just stick with individual 2N3904s. Originals also have 2 of the controls internally, but what’s the fun in that? All … Read more
I drew this up last month on a whim, built it and it actually sounds pretty good. It’s just a Red Llama with a Big Muff tone stack tacked on to the end. Ripe for tweaking to your own taste, especially with the values of the tone section. I changed the values to give boosted … Read more
For Fuzz Friday we have the original Swollen Pickle from Way Huge Electronics. One of the unique things about this Muff clone is the use of a quad transistor array instead of 4 individual transistors. This makes for a quieter pedal and more consistency in transistor matching. However if you don’t feel like tracking down … Read more
Here is a layout for the Way Huge Green Rhino MKII overdrive. I would like to thank Ciaran Haslett for drawing a schematic by reverse engineering his own pedal.
The Red Llama by Way Huge is a great tube-like overdrive with plenty of output. I’ve drawn 3 layouts–one for every typical Hammond box! The 1590A layout uses 9mm pots which you should be able to board-mount. The other 2 use typical 16mm pots. Make sure to use the unbuffered CD4049 or else the circuit … Read more
[10th July Layout now fixed and verified, many thanks to John who bought and traced an original] Requested by a few people. The juvenile in me was so tempted to call this one the Huge Pork Sword, but thought I should start acting my age :o) This is a fairly big circuit for an overdrive … Read more
Thanks to Kit Rae for the schematic. I’ve seen a few schematics for this and the Kit Rae one has an extra connection between Filter 3 and the base of Q4 (pin 13). Maybe you want to try making that connection and see what you think. Info about the original thanks to the Wayback Machine … Read more
Info from the manufacturer: The often imitated but never duplicated thunder of the Red Llama is back! This is not a reproduction, but a continuation of where the groundbreaking archetype left off in 1999. Every single feature that made the Red Llama so mighty is still in place, right where Mr. Huge left them. Season … Read more
I think a few people will like this one: Guitar Player Magazine (Sept. ’96): “The Moose does an impressive imitation of the Foxx Tone Machine, a perennial favorite…The octave effect is extraordinary, one of the clearest and most consistent we’ve heard…The non-octave fuzz tone is huge and grunting with a lively resonant hum…” We use … Read more