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Gretsch ControFuzz
For Fuzz Friday I give you the ControFuzz from Gretsch. Originals are pretty rare and it's an fairly unique design based around a single 4558 chip. I found a build report from LucifersTrip over on...
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Suhr Riot
Gotten a few requests for this one. The Riot distortion from Suhr is built around 2, dual opamps (4580 in originals, but others can be used) with several clipping options for a great high gain...
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Jen Harmon Booster
Here's a really unique overdrive from the Italian manufacturer Jen from the late 70s. Think Tube Screamer meets Big Muff. It sort of reminds me of a DBA design (only more stable and not as over the...
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Way Huge Swollen Pickle Mk I
For Fuzz Friday we have the original Swollen Pickle from Way Huge Electronics. One of the unique things about this Muff clone is the use of a quad transistor array instead of 4 individual transistors....
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HAO Sole Pressure
Here's HAO's take on the Distortion +/250 Preamp circuit. It uses LED clipping and features a Brilliance switch for normal, bright, and warm settings. A TL072 dual opamp is used, but on the original,...
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Taptation
Want to add tap tempo to a PT2399 delay? Using this chip from DIYSB and the layout below, you can add tap to any single PT2399 delay (Deep Blue Delay, Rebote, Faux Analog Echo, etc). The Pin 6 pad...
View ArticleEquinox II Demo
Sorry this isn't a layout guys, but I made a quick little demo of the Equinox II reverb and wanted to share it with you all. Still really digging the sound of this thing and works really well with my...
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Durham Crazy Horse
For Fuzz Friday here's an really interesting circuit from Durham that's both an overdrive and a fuzz. As the name implies helps you get some Neil Young tones, but does a lot more than that. The input...
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Catalinbread Supercharged Overdrive
Here's one of the earliest Catalinbread designs, the Supercharged Overdrive. It's a pretty unique circuit with the Contour control adding in more distortion and saturation from the CD4007 stage. Laid...
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CultureJam DuoVibe
Here's a cool vibrato effect designed by CultureJam and based on Tim Escobedo's Wobbletron. Here's what he had to say about it his original build doc.The DuoVibe is a two-stage optical vibe circuit...
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VooDoo Lab Superfuzz
It's Fuzz Friday once again, so here's the VooDoo Lab Superfuzz. Despite the name, it's not based on classic Univox fuzz circuit with the same name. Rather, it's a highly modified Jordan Bosstone with...
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EchoPlex Preamp
The EchoPlex Preamp emulates the input stage on the old EchoPlex EP-3. It provides up to 11dB of gain and is mostly used as an always on pedal to sweeten the user's tone. If you want to add the volume...
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Mad Professor Little Green Wonder
I feel like in the past few months I've done a ton Tube Screamer variants. Well here's another one, but one of the more interesting ones I've seen. Bjorn designed this one for Mad Professor and...
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HipKitty Oxblood Distortion
Here's your Fuzz Friday fix. I'm calling it a fuzz anyway since it's just a modded Fuzz Face with an input buffer and a treble cut control at the output. It's supposed to give the boxy sound of a...
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BearFoot FX Baby Pink Booster
Here's a cool little booster from Bjorn. Fairly typical JFET boost but the way the originals are wired, when the effect is bypassed, it's buffer. This layout reflects that original wiring, so wire the...
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Menatone King of the Britains
Here's a Menatone design that emulates a Marshall JCM800. Like many Menatone circuits, the King of the Britains has had several iterations over the years. For this layout I went with the 6-knob version...
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Devi Ever Vintage Fuzz Master
Here's a cool one from Devi Ever for Fuzz Friday. The Vintage Fuzz Master is only slightly different than the Soda Meiser and both can be built on the same board. The only difference is the orientation...
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Walrus Audio Mayflower
Here's the Walrus Audio Mayflower, which is essentially a hybrid between the Tube Screamer and the Timmy (which has its roots in the TS already). Originals use a second dual opamp for buffering the...
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Valve Wizard Small Time
Here's Valve Wizard's take on the PT2399 delay. It's very similar to most PT2399 delays out there, with a dual op-amp providing input and output buffering. This was designed with the tails function and...
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Death by Audio Robot
For Fuzz Friday, here's another wild and wacky one from DBA: The Robot is a low fidelity 8 bit pitch transposer with absolutely no feelings what-so-ever. It is completely synthetic and transforms any...
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