Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Zach’s info about the original: I designed this new distortion generator, Machine, with some different limitations. Like try playing chords through it. Hmmm. But put it in front of any string of fuzz pedals, and try to make it disappear. Machine is actually a dual frequency-tripler circuit that uses crossover distortion for the first time … Read more
A few people have requested a vero of the Mastotron, so here it is. If you want to make it verbatim then you would put a 100 ohm resistor in series with the input wire before the pot, and a 100 ohm resistor in series with the 9V supply wire, but I personally wouldn’t bother … Read more
Another popular one from Zacky baby. And on the plus side the layout ended up looking like a spaceship out of Gradius 3 :o) (showing my age there!)
Another that I thought I’d already posted. I’ll add a more compact layout in the next day or so Geiri’s demo video of his build:
Another one to keep you busy for a while. This version is the effect only and no gate so you’ll have to use an ISP Decimator or something with it if it’s noisy :o)
As requested. It isn’t verified yet but certainly seems to match the schematic to me, so if anyone builds it then please let me know so I can log it as verified. It will fit perfectly in a 1590B, but you could even shave a column off the left hand side if you don’t mind … Read more
I had a request for a vero of the Mastotron, so here’s the Woolly Mammoth which is virtually the same, with the Mastotron just having an additional 100K linear pot which the input is taken to before the first capacitor. The new input wiring with the Relax/Pull pot can be seen on my tagboard layout … Read more
This is the newer version of the Super Hard on with a zener diode, and is based on Zach’s published schematic. REDDIT UPDATE: Nothing fishy about it, it was the schematic Zach published for the Inventobox and can be seen here: http://www.zvex.com/module_instructions.pdf
