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Skreddy Top Fuel
For Fuzz Friday, here's another fantastic Big Muff variation from Skreddy–the Top Fuel. It replaces the input stage with a MOSFET-based stage, and uses an interesting diode array for the 2 clipping...
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Electro-Harmonix OD Glove
Here's the Glove from EHX's nano series. Essentially, it's an OCD with a switchable charge pump. On originals the voltage switch is internal, but external makes more sense to me, so wire that to your...
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Red Llama + BMP tone stack
I drew this up last month on a whim, built it and it actually sounds pretty good. It's just a Red Llama with a Big Muff tone stack tacked on to the end. Ripe for tweaking to your own taste, especially...
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Heavy Darling Fuzz
Found this one over on DIYSB and thought it'd be a good Fuzz Friday layout. It was designed by Dragonfly for the old FX-X contests. Here's what he had to say about it:The Heavy Darling is a SIMPLE...
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Dan Armstrong Red Ranger
Here's a classic circuit from Dan Armstrong–the Red Ranger. It's a booster with a switch for boosting treble, full range, or bass. Original units didn't have a volume control, but it could easily be...
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Catalinbread Hyperpak
Here's an older design from Catalinbread (now discontinued). The Hyperpak is based around a CD4007UBE to generate a wide array of tones. Be sure to use the unbuffered version of 4007. Shouldn't be too...
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Earthquaker Devices Hoof Reaper
It's the last Fuzz Friday before Christmas, and as a present to you here's 3 effects in one–the Earthquaker Hoof Reaper. It combines the Tone Reaper fuzz, the Green Ringer (Tentacle) octave, and Hoof...
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Brown Sound in a Box 2
Somehow I've not laid out this DIY classic, so here's the BSIAB2. It's a great distortion pedal designed by Ed Guidry and is probably a must for any of you EVH fans.
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Catalinbread V8 Fuzz Engine
For the final Fuzz Friday of the year, here's another one from Catalinbread. It's a fairly unique design and much like the Hyperpak, it uses a 4007 chip and will fit in a 1590a.
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Treeline Overdrive
Happy New Year everyone! I thought I'd kick off the New Year with something different. Lately I've been doing a lot of work in Eagle CAD for some non-blog related projects and thought I'd do a few...
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Switchback Delay
Continuing with the board-mounted (almost) everything theme, here's what I call the Switchback Delay. It's my take on the Deep Blue Delay with a few modifications. More info in the build doc linked...
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Firestriker Fuzz
It's Fuzz Friday once again, and in keeping with the week's theme, here's a silicon Tone Bender-style fuzz with board mounted pots, jacks, and LED. This one does use true-bypass switching and I've...
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Hudson Electronics Broadcast
Alright, back to the normal layouts. Here's a really unique overdrive pedal from Hudson Electronics in the UK. It features an onboard charge pump to take 9 volts up to 24, so be sure to use...
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Run of Groove Tonemender
Got a request for this one. It's a nice boost with a 3-band EQ. Pots are board mounted and it will fit in a 1590B sideways (ala Zvex pedals) with the circuit board vertical. From the Run Off Groove...
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Earthquaker Devices Bellows
For Fuzz Friday here's the Bellows from Earthquaker. I picked up one of these late last year and was able to trace it. It's fairly simple but sounds really good. It's really similar to an Electra...
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Durham Sex Drive
The Durham Sex Drive is a pretty versatile Tube Screamer variation. It can go from clean boost to medium overdrive. The traditional input and output buffers have been removed and there's a toggle...
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Ceriatone Klein-ulator
Got a request for this one. It's a effects loop buffer that's a solid-state version of the Dumbleator effects loop buffer. It's equipped with an internal charge pump that converts a +9v supply to +33v....
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Hidrosis
Got a request for this one. It's based on the old Maestro MFZ-1 and was put together by Brett over on the DIYStompbox forum. Apparently it has a very similar sound to some earlier Black Keys tones....
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Earthquaker Devices The Depths
Kicking off the week with a fantastic vibe box from Earthquaker Devices–The Depths. It gave me a bit of a fight to get the pots board mounted and as a result there are 5 jumpers O_O. But it sounds...
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Boss Blues Driver 2
I can't remember how many times I've been asked to do this one. I started laying it out ages ago, but got frustrated or interrupted and never went back to it. But here it is now, better late than...
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