Fjord Fuzz Freia

 A BIG thank you to Chris of Capitalist Death Cult for digging this one up!. And also a big thank you to Daniel of Fjord Fuzz for sharing the information how to build a clone.

So, what is it, then? It is basically the preamp section of the mighty Shin Ei/Honey Univibe. Some minor changes has been made so it can be used both as a preamp and a great sounding fuzz when the Bias and Gain is turnned clockwise. 

Most medium gain NPN silicon transistors should work fine but they might give different character since it is quite a small circuit. So socketing is recommended.

Cornish TB-83 Treble Booster

 

VFE Dragon

 Here is a pretty cool overdrive with qquite a poweful eq section. However, it requires som fiddling to make your own custom 10kC/100kC dual gang pots for the EQ controls. HERE is a small tutorial at page 3. Second, the DPDT on/on/on switch type isn't specified in the info sheet I have, only "the coomon type" which leads me to believe it is a "Type 2" switch.

Note that this a buffered bypass circuit.

 

 

 

Guyatone PS-025 Touch Overdrive

 Schematic and trimpot setup is avaiable at Deadend Fx.

Guyatone PS-021 Guitar Exciter & Compressor

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.

Guyatone PS-020 Bass Exciter & Limiter

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.

Rocktek Metal Worker

 A "bottom of the well" HM2 variant. Differs enough to warrant its own layout, though...

 

 

 

Rocktek ODR-1 Overdrve

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.

ProCo Brat / Roadkill

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.

 

Aria AOD-1 Overdrive

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.

21th Century Big Muff

 A pretty cool lookin¨take on the ol¨Big Muff. The first and the last stage is replaced by a dual op amp, a diode lift switch at the the first clipping stage, a Gain control that biases both of the clipping stages and for the tonestack, a James control network is used for invidual bass and treble controls. .

Schematic is avaiable HERE.

 

Back from the wilderness...

 I've been trekking in Lapland (in northenmost Sweden) for the last couple of weeks hence the low activity around here. There is lots of messages in my Blogspot folder, I'll try to walk it thtough it the next coming days. Don't hesitate to hit me up if there is a layout that needs to be tagged or corrected.

Tjätka Valley, Lapland.

 

 

 

 Laddjo Valley close to Nikkaloukta, Lapland.

 

 

 

 

Further down Laddjo Valley...

 

 

 

 

Innermost part of Laddjo Valley. Can you see the Orch?!

 

 

Some pretty views close to Tjätka Valley...