Monday, 30 December 2019

PedalPCB Hyped Fuzz

Two layouts of this one. One with DPDT on/on/on selector switch and one with rotary switch.
Rotary switch layout is verified.

DPDT layout

Rotary switch layout

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Fuzzhead Fx Mammoth Bender

I've always loved Tonebender Mk2's but always felt that it lacked some low end for the music I'm playing at the moment. So I decided to a heavy TB2 variant....no wait, it's more like this; What if an old Marshall Supa Fuzz met a Wooly Mammoth and had a baby?

It would be the Mammoth Bender. The core is a Tonebender Mk2 with some tweaked resistor values. Capacitor values and the tonestack is lifted from ZVex Wooly Mammoth. Transistors is NPN Germaniums, part number isn't that important more attention should be noted to Hfe and leakage which is noted bellow the layout.

This one is verified.



BBE 427 Distortion

By looking at the schematic it appears that this one is a mix of a couple classic distortion circuits....the core is a Marshall Guvnor with LED clipping with a tonestack lifted from Boss DS1. 2,15k reistor can be subbed for 2,2k and that huge 1000uf power filter cap could be subbed for 100uF.






Thursday, 5 December 2019

Holmes H-X6 Spectrum

A rare and versitale old 3-band eq pedal with High Pass, Band Pass and Resonance controls. Schematic is avaiable at DeadendFx


Sunday, 1 December 2019

Fuzzhead FX MOuSeFET

Here is a variation on the Rat theme. I wanted to do a MOSFET Rat since I have a few CA3240 dual op amps lying araound and I like the sound of MOSFET transistors of hard clippers. Caps is enlarged a bit for a bit more low end and a switch for a 10uF running in parallel with 2,2uf cap is added for a bit more gain and low end. Stock output FET buffer is replaced with the second half of the op amp.