Schematic avaiable HERE.
Thursday, 21 October 2021
Saturday, 16 October 2021
Friday, 15 October 2021
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Fuzzlord Effects FET 120 Overdrive - transistor version
Another one traced by evilarsen. A J FET preamp emulator loosely based on Orange OR120.
This one is already verified.
Tuesday, 12 October 2021
Lell X-Metal
An old russian Boss MT-2 derivate. The eq section and the general topology is pretty close to the original. But cap and resistor values differs quite a lot in most places and the gain control looks like it is borrowed from a Boss DS1.
Monday, 11 October 2021
Friday, 8 October 2021
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Sunday, 3 October 2021
Saturday, 2 October 2021
DOD 210 FET Preamp
Here we have a small one, an old J FET booster. Polarity protection diode and power filter cap has been added and the 22k Drain resistor is replaced with 50k trimpot so we can socket and try out a wide range of J FETs.
Friday, 1 October 2021
Sunday, 19 September 2021
MI Audio Blue Boy Deluxe Overdrive
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Saturday, 18 September 2021
Rusty Box
Based on the preamp of Traynor TS50B, Rusty Box is a big sounding circuit, perfect for bass and baritone guitars. The layout runs on 18v and has an onboard voltage inverter and voltage regulators for 15v/-15v operation. But it might work well on 9v as well but it will probably have more gain (...and less headroom) and some bias tweaking might be necessary.
Sunday, 12 September 2021
God City Gradient w. gain ctrl
Here is a quite simple Booster/Eq/light OD circuit designed by Kurt Ballou.
More info and schematic HERE.
Saturday, 11 September 2021
Friday, 10 September 2021
Schumann Lion
Modified for normal DC power supply with onboard voltage inverter and voltage regulators.
The layout is based on THIS schematic.
Monday, 6 September 2021
Wampler Black '65
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
The overkill 470uF power filter cap has been reduced to 100uF and the 10ohm series resistor for the power supply has been replaced with a series polarity protection diode.
Sunday, 5 September 2021
Saturday, 4 September 2021
Friday, 3 September 2021
Fuzzlord Effects Drone Master
Here is another trace by evilarsen; Fuzzlord Drone Master.
It is essentially a tweaked Rat with a diode selector switch, a switchable twin T notch filter for a mid scoop a la Superfuzz, and an op amp output buffer.
There is two versions for this (2019 and 2020) and since they differ quite a bit when it comes to some of the component values. The internal trimpot that sets the depth of the mid scoop was only present in some earlier versions but I decided to include it here since it seems to be an useful feature.
Bear in mind that there is quite a volume drop when the switches is in silicon and Scoop mode.
2019 version











