Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Saturday 18 February 2023
Friday 17 February 2023
Wednesday 15 February 2023
One Control / BJF Strawberry Red Overdrive
Found a schematic at a japanese DIY blog. Using Google Translate reveals that the blogger traced it by himselft and his clone sounds pretty much the same as the original.
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.