Sunday, 11 December 2022

Boss SD-2 Crunch Channel

 Per request.

Schematic is avaiable HERE and a verified layout for the Lead Channel is avaiable HERE.




Friday, 9 December 2022

Grind Custom Fx Spasm Chasm

 By looking at the component values, this appears to be a smoother, tighter, civilized and mid oriented Muff variant especially when you compare it to Ultrastoner and TSM680...




Danelectro D2 FAB Overdrive

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Danelectro FAB Distortion

 Based on Maxon Distortion Master but with a hardwired bass control and different component values along the signal path. The buffered bypass swithing wasn't included in the schematic so I left it out.


 

 

Thursday, 8 December 2022

Ltava Fuzz Wah - modified

 The fuzz and wah section of Ltava Fuzz/Vibrato/Wah multi effects pedal manufactured in Ukraine in the early 80s. The LFO section was left out simply because the layout would be too big. The internal trimpots is taken out on the outside for external gain controls. And a onboard voltage inverter was added.

Schematic:

 

 


Exar DS-01 Distortion

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Exar OD-02 Overdrive

 Cool looking soft clipping overdrive using a discrete op amp setup.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Exar MT-1 Metal

 Might be something for the HM-2 fans? The gyrator frequiencies and Q's looks promising...

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Exar DS-02 Distortion

 Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Exar HR-03 Hammer

 An old polish distortion which is based on Ibanez Trash Metal. Which is basically a  buffered and boosted Rat circuit with an additional fixed gyrator EQ stage after the distortion circuit.

Schematic is avaiable HERE.



Friday, 11 November 2022