Showing posts with label DIY Designs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY Designs. Show all posts

Friday, 25 September 2026

Aleph Null Troglodyte Reverb

 Self oscillating reverb with plenty of bells and whistles.

Schematic, writeup and demo is avaiable HERE. 


 

Aleph Null Cremulator

 Tonebender with MOSFETs and Big Muff tone control topped with a funky Mid control...

Schematic, writeup and demo is avaiable HERE. 


 

Thursday, 24 September 2026

Aleph Null Optical Weeble

 Demo, writup and schematic is avaiable HERE.


 

Aleph Null Moka Pot Fuzz

 Some Aleph Null circuits for the weekend?

First out is a SHO/Harmonic Percolator/Escobedo Push Me Pull You...thing.

Schematic is avaiable HERE. 


 

Sunday, 12 July 2026

Aleph Null Grawlix

 This is the last layout for a while since I'm heading north for vacation....

Aleph Null have some cool DIY designs, here is a souped up Green Ringer with plenty of gain on tap, a tone control and a Texture control for the octave up. HERE is the schematic. 


 

Tuesday, 7 July 2026

Jordan Fontaine Overloader

 A contribution drom Jordan Fontaine, sort of a Big Muff on steroids...

 

t's a Big Muff with a bass booster that can be blended in between Q2 and Q3. The overload of low end and volume freaks out Q3. The circuit goes from fairly standard muff to sputtering and gated goodness. I find Sustain and Overload both set around 1 or 2 o'clock gets the best sound. The tone stack is fairly flat. The Mid Shift switch gives back some of the standard scoop and makes full CCW much darker for doomy sounds. The switch ends up being fairly subtle and can easily be omitted. 

The build is verified by both my build and Fuzzonaut who gave it good review.
 

 
 

 

 

Friday, 8 May 2026

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Madbean Ballast Point Jr. /Little Angel Chorus

 Ok, I guess I'm back from another hiatus. Quite few layout is in the pipeline so things should be much more active from my side.

First out is a DIY classic; Rick Holts Little Angel Chorus with some useful mods by Madbean Pedals.

Schematic and more information HERE. 

 


Tuesday, 9 April 2024

Capitalist Death Cult No One Wants To Work Anymore

 Taking a break from the Madbean bonanza since Chris Stelloh sent a layout and a schematic of one his creations. Some words from the man himself: And yes, this layout is verified.

Here is something I came up with recently that shakes the pillars of heaven, via WAY TOO MANY cuts and jumpers.

It is essentially the modded fuzz face circuit from the Apocalypse Audio H Fuzz with an input buffer (sacrelige, I know), followed by a 5 band gyrator EQ. I used the values from the Dunwich Left Hand Path modded HM-2 and added a 5th lower gyrator that centers at 60Hz, so that bassists can bring the buzzsaw, too. The gain squeals when maxed, but the gate will still clamp down on it nicely. The d311 germanium diode is most likely not necessary. Anything with a .3v volt drop will probably do the job. The 50k trimmer sets the treble content from the fuzz before it hits the EQ stage and sounds best (to me) at about 1 o'clock, but to each their own. This WILL fit in a 1590bb, but just barely!
 
 

 

 

Monday, 17 July 2023

F'Deck / Broughton Hybrid HPF

 Another guest appearance by Sebastian who generously shares his interesting designs!

Here is a snippet of his description for it:

...hybrid of the F'Deck (series 3) and the Broughton high-pass filters. I wanted the steeper slope of the F'Deck (24db/octave below 35Hz) with the gain boost of the Broughton—so, here it is!

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 12 July 2023

PedalPCB Mojito Overdrive Deluxe

 Chuck D. Bones take on one of Björn Juhl's designs, a hot rodded Honey Bee. Lots of tweaks all over the place so it probably differ quite a bit compared to the original circuit. I subbed the hard to source clipping diodes for NPN transistors to match the voltage drop and knee. Regular 1N4148s will work but they have a slightly lower voltage drop.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.