Saturday 31 December 2022

Thorpy Fx The Warthog.

 The last layout of 2022!

Thorpy Fx take on a Rat. An input MOSFET gain stage with a bias control, a fancy high end single op amp and LED hard clippers. Looks fun!

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Friday 30 December 2022

Hawk II Tonal Expander

 With some modern improvements:

  • Onboard voltage doubler for 18v operation.
  • Series inductor for the Bass control since stock value is impossible to source nowadays.
  • Master volume control.
Schematic is avaiable HERE



Emanating Fist LR-01 Lucifer Rising

 


Wednesday 28 December 2022

Exar SF-02 Super Fuzz

 Another Exar box traced by Vitali from Drunk Beaver pedals. I've been curious about this one for a while. It turns out that the fuzz section are a Boss DS-1 derivate. The interesting part lies in the Eq section. The Frequency pot controls both a Big Muff tonestack (with a very deep mid scoop notch) and an active bandpass filter. The Equilize control pans between both filters...

It came out quite big but it will fit in 125b box if mounted sideways.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.


 


Friday 23 December 2022

Boss OD-3 Overdrive

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.




Jersey Girl Fulltender Overdrive

 A pretty rare japanese boutique OD based on the 77-80 era Boss OD-1. The LF444 are a quad op amp with J FET inputs so TL064/TL074 are suitable replacements.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.




Wednesday 21 December 2022

Boss OD-2r Turbo Overdrive - Turbo channel

 Schematic and more info about this circuit is avaiable HERE.




Boss OD-1 - Dual Op Amp version

 Forgot I had the later and more common version in a folder...

For the earlier quad op amp version there is a layout HERE.



Sunday 18 December 2022

DNA Analogic Gain Fxxker V2

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



DNA Analogic Smoky Fuzz

 This is pretty much a souped up DOD250/MXR Distortion Plus derivate with more gain on tap and useful gain control. But the most interesting thing is the "Sens" control which pand between a low pass filter and hard clipping diodes.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Wednesday 14 December 2022

TC Electronics Mojo Mojo Overdrive

 Per request.

The layout stays mostly true to the schematic. One half of the op amps was unused to I used it for buffered Vref which doesn't hurt. Quite an interesting design if a bit over engineered.:-)



Sunday 11 December 2022

Boss SD-2 Crunch Channel

 Per request.

Schematic is avaiable HERE and a verified layout for the Lead Channel is avaiable HERE.




Friday 9 December 2022

Grind Custom Fx Spasm Chasm

 By looking at the component values, this appears to be a smoother, tighter, civilized and mid oriented Muff variant especially when you compare it to Ultrastoner and TSM680...




Danelectro D2 FAB Overdrive

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Danelectro FAB Distortion

 Based on Maxon Distortion Master but with a hardwired bass control and different component values along the signal path. The buffered bypass swithing wasn't included in the schematic so I left it out.


 

 

Thursday 8 December 2022

Ltava Fuzz Wah - modified

 The fuzz and wah section of Ltava Fuzz/Vibrato/Wah multi effects pedal manufactured in Ukraine in the early 80s. The LFO section was left out simply because the layout would be too big. The internal trimpots is taken out on the outside for external gain controls. And a onboard voltage inverter was added.

Schematic:

 

 


Exar DS-01 Distortion

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Tuesday 6 December 2022

Thursday 24 November 2022

Exar OD-02 Overdrive

 Cool looking soft clipping overdrive using a discrete op amp setup.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Exar MT-1 Metal

 Might be something for the HM-2 fans? The gyrator frequiencies and Q's looks promising...

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Exar DS-02 Distortion

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Exar HR-03 Hammer

 An old polish distortion which is based on Ibanez Trash Metal. Which is basically a  buffered and boosted Rat circuit with an additional fixed gyrator EQ stage after the distortion circuit.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Friday 4 November 2022

Tesla AYZ-025 Fuzz Wah

 There is a layout for the fuzz section in library but here comes the whole package with the inductorless wah circuit ryincluded. The wah pot can be wired as a manual panel mounted "bandpass filter" tone control or wired through an expression jack. The fuzz section is based on Foxx tone machine but there is quite a lots of changes along the signal path wiith different component values, a couple of buffer stages and negative feedback resistors. However, the Tone control match the FTM so feel free to adjust the 3,3nf cap for a higher value to bring up some mids.

 

 


Tesla AYZ-033 Overdrive

 Slightly modified. Stock units had two 741 op amps but the layout is modified for a dual op amp. A 1458 will do the same job as two 741s.

 

 


Yamaha NE-1

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Electro Harmonix Attack Equalizer / Knockout EQ

 Found this in an older folthe usuader that I forgot. Includes some necesarry modernazations like true bypass, onbard charge pump, input and output caps and pulldown resistors.

Schematics is avaiable HERE.



Saturday 29 October 2022

Electro Harmonix Bassballs / PedalPCB Lowballer Twin Envelepoe Filter

 It s time for a guest appearance!

Chris Stelloh of Capitalist Death Cult requested a layout for this one a while ago but I couldn't do it at the time so he went off and did his own. The layout is verified and good to go.

It is basically a EHX Bassbals with quite a few mods by PedalPCB. The internal trimpots are now extrenal pots. The Attack, Decay and the the distortion section are addons that wasn't included in the original Bassballs.



Wednesday 26 October 2022