Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Saturday, 18 February 2023
Friday, 17 February 2023
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Sunday, 5 February 2023
Exar HM-02 Heavy Metal
As many others, I thought this was just a clone or a close derivate to the Boss HM2. We couldn't be more wrong. Vitali from drunk beaver pedals opladed a schematic for it and it reveals a quite an interesting circuit. The distortion section resembles Boss DS2 with a discrete op amp and hard clipping diodes.
The 3-band eq section is fairly unique. Mid control is basically a volume control for the raw unfiltered signal. Low is built around a 3rd order Sallen key filter and the High control is driven with an active dual high pass filter not dissimilar to one of the filters found in EHX Knockout.
The layout turned out quite big with all these transistors and op amps so it is intended for a BB enclosure.
Monday, 30 January 2023
Fuzzlord Effects Troglodyte
Sunday, 22 January 2023
Castledine Electronics Magical Mystery Box
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
There is two layouts for this one. One for an audio transformer and one for a fasel inductor.
Transformer layout
Saturday, 21 January 2023
Friday, 20 January 2023
Carl Martin Crush Zone
A quite interesting one. It is basically an old Tim Escobedo circuit (Punch in the Face silicon/FET fuzz face variant) sandwished between two op amp gainstages. The input cap is only at 220pF, try 4,7nF-10nF to fatten things up a bit. A trimpot is added for easy biasing for the J FET. Stock fixed value is 5,6k.
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Sunday, 8 January 2023
Sunmachine Sonic Devices Fuzz O)))
There was quite some hype and interest in this one a few years ago but it was never fully traced. Obviously it was based on a DAM Meathead but and the product description mentions a low pass filter for the "Low" control. guitarfxservice traced it a few days ago (thank you!) and it turns out that it is a stock Meathead with an input cap selector switch and the "Low" control is basically Pre Gain control. Nothing new under the sun(n) I upload this to demistify it.



















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