This was a request. Schematic and a neat circuit description is avaiable HERE.
Friday, 21 January 2022
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Fulltone 2B
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Note that this is a buffered effect so the offboard wiring is a bit unusual.
Monday, 17 January 2022
Sunday, 16 January 2022
ProCo / Fuzzdog 3-Band Rat
This is a request. Fuzzdog tweaked a the classic Rat circuit a few years ago. It includes the "Reutz mod", a diode selector switch for assymetric silicon/LED clipping and a Marshall 3-band tonestack. The output buffer is tweaked into a gain recovery J FET stage to cover up the lossy tonestack. For a Sunn/Supergroup tonestack, just replace the 33k resistor with 56k and 470pF capacitor with 270pF.
Thursday, 13 January 2022
Danelectro D-1 Fab Tone Distortion
A very old request and I forgot I had it in a folder. Somewhat related to some of the DOD "Lamb" series dirt boxes,
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Runoffgroove UBE Screamer
Another interesting circuit design by ROG; using a hex invrter to emulate a Tubescreamer
Schematic and a writeup is avaiable HERE.
Note that the resistor labelled "X" in the schematic is replaced by a 500k trimpot so you dial in the right amount of clean signal. Set it at around 100k for single coils, 220k for normal humbuckers or set it to 500k for hot humbuckers.
Runoffgroove Omega
Quite an interesting little treble booster from ROG for Vox toanz. Schematic and a writeup is avaiable HERE.
Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Motley Crue Dr. Feelgood Distortion
Not much info on the manufacturer of this one but I believe it was made by TC Electronics. Note that I have seprated the the Instrument/Line level section into a daughterboard. Simply to to have the option to leave it out and cram the main board into a smaller enclosure...
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Monday, 10 January 2022
Sunday, 9 January 2022
Saturday, 8 January 2022
Friday, 7 January 2022
Thursday, 6 January 2022
EarthQuaker Devices Levitation Reverb
Feeling much better today so I was able to do some layouts. Thanks for all the kind posts and email I've recieved! It really helped keeping the spirit up!
First up is another EQD circuit, a quite tweakable reverb. Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Sunday, 2 January 2022
EarthQuaker Devices Hizumitas Fuzz
Since I'm pretty much slushed and decked by the Covid flu at the moment, this one will be the last layout for a while... Over and out...but first some marketing spell.
The Hizumitas was designed for the one and only guitar sorceress, Wata, from the legendary band, Boris! We could not be more excited to have the honor of working with such an iconic legend known for her crushing riffs and mind-melting leads. The Hizumitas is a faithful sonic recreation of her go-to distortion which has been a staple of her tone for many years: the Elk BM Sustainar.
Montarbo PB-2 Buzzer- fuzz section
Schematic and info is avaiable HERE.
Sadly, the 6 stage phaser section isn't included in the schematic but the fuzz section itself is still wuite unique. This one is already verified by Ian!

