Monday 2 May 2022

Stephen Douglas Leona V1

 Ok, one more layout today. This one traced by Clément who was very generous to send me the schematic. 

Once again, thank you!


 


Arion MDS-1 Distortion

 The cheap plastic casings fools us but Arion did some really good sounding stompboxes in the 80s and 90s. Here is a quite simple distortion unit that is supposed to be a sleeper. Earlier versions had silicon diodes as hard clippers which was switched to red LEDs later on. So I included a diode switch.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.


 


Washburn A-D3 Stack in a Box

 A J-FET amp emulator hailing back from the early 80s, quite ahead of its time. Trimpots are included to be able to bias the FETs and the 5,6k inline with the trimpots is reduced to 2,2k to be able to use a wider range of J FETs.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Ibanez BN5 Black Noise

 An old request. This is pretty much a Rat with an active treble control and two fixed eq gyrators making it quite bass heavy. Lots of mods can be done like a diode switch, tweaking the gyrators and the tonestack as well as tweaking the RC filter at the first gainstage.