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.  

 

 


Friday, 8 October 2021

Wednesday, 6 October 2021

Mini EVH

Per request. A DIY project posted by Dylan159 at FSB a while back. It is based on Bajaman's EVH OD but tweaked and simplified. Schematic and more info HERE.




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.




Sunday, 19 September 2021

MI Audio Blue Boy Deluxe Overdrive

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.


...and by request another layout with with mods by asbestosaurus at FSB.
 
R1 and R2 is the suggested values but they can be tinckered with for more or less overall output.
 

 


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.




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

Hornby & Skewes Selectatone T.B.2

 A tweaked Rangemaster with switchable output filters. Schematic and more info HERE.

 


 

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


 
 
2020 version