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Dwarfcraft Shiva
This week's Fuzz Friday layout is the Dwarfcraft Shiva. It's a unique fuzz that can deliver wicked, buzzy fuzz tones. The toggle switches turn on and off LEDs in the 2nd and 3rd stages of the circuit,...
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Sprinkle Drive
Stumbled across the schematic for this recently. It's takes inspiration from the Sparkle Drive with the clean blend function but uses a different drive section. I thought it was interesting and drew up...
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Crowther Audio '03 Hot Cake
I laid out the original 1977 Hot Cake a while back, but never got around to doing the modern one that came out in 2003. So here's the newer one. I ignored the original relay bypass switch and the...
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Catalinbread Manx Loaghtan
Got a request for this one. It's Catalinbread's take on the classic Big Muff, and therefore an excellent layout for Fuzz Friday. The biggest difference between this and a regular BMP is the tone...
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Wren & Cuff Phat Phuk B
The Phat Phuk is a boost from Wren & Cuff that combines a JFET stage with a germanium transistor stage. This got traced over on the Tagboard Forum and the original that was traced was the B...
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Fulltone RTO
The RTO (or Robin Trower Overdrive) from Fulltone is a modified Tube Screamer circuit. The input buffer is removed and the soft clipping stage has an interesting mix of diodes.For a drilling template,...
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Black Arts Toneworks Black Sheep
A biker fuzz if ever there was one. This week's Fuzz Friday layout is the Black Sheep from Black Arts Toneworks. It's great on both guitar and bass and features 3 stacked gain stages with a 4 position...
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Electro Harmonix Soul Preacher
There have been a few different iterations of the Soul Preacher. This one follows the version that isn't based around an OTA chip (much like a DynaComp), but is rather much closer to an Orange...
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Barber Silver LTD
Here's a cool variation of a buffer-less Tube Screamer with a BMP-style tone stack in the middle. There are also several trimmers that control the Presence, Bass, and Mids, and they'd be pretty easy to...
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D*A*M/Emanating Fist Black Dust
For Fuzz Friday here's another take on the classic Colorsound One-Knob Fuzz by Emanating Fist Electronics (a sister company of D*A*M). It's fairly similar to the D*A*M Meathead, but with a few value...
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Earthquaker Devices Black Eye
Here's a nice little MOSFET-based clean boost that EQD used to make. It's actually pretty similar to the Lovepedal Delux 60. Here's the schematic for reference.
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EHX Hot Tubes
Here's the Hot Tubes overdrive from Electro Harmonix. It's based around a 4049 hex inverter chip (like a Red Llama) with a dual op amp pushing it. Original units from the 70s had buffered bypass and a...
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Lovepedal Dragon, BBB, etc.
Here's YAFF (yet another Fuzz Face) for Fuzz Friday. This is the basic circuit for many Lovepedal variations of the classic fuzz using both germanium and silicon transistors. If using PNP transistors...
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Barber Tone Pump
Starting the week out with an early version of the Tone Pump from Barber. It's very similar to the Silver LTD with a few value changes and a simplified tone control. Here's the schematic for reference...
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Test Rig
Here's a couple test rigs you can use to test effects before boxing them up. They use the same board mounted jacks I used on the "board mounted everything" layouts I did at the beginning of the year....
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FuzzHugger FX Doom Bloom
Fuzz Friday! Do you want a fuzz with a bunch of knobs, versatile tones, and works on guitar and bass? Good. Here's the Doom Bloom from FuzzHugger. Think of it as an Electra distortion pushing a Bazz...
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Death by Audio Echo Dream 2
Gotten a lot of requests for this one. I've put it off because the schematic that's out there isn't exactly straight forward, not to mention it's 7 pots, 2 switches, 3 ICs... You get the idea. Anyway,...
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Carl Martin Plexi-Tone
This is probably the biggest Marshall-in-a-box pedal out there (footprint-wise anyway). Originals use a +/- 12v supply with a transformer internally. I modified the power section with a +/-18v charge...
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DeadAstronaut Space Patrol Fuzz
For Fuzz Friday here's DeadAstronaut's take on the good ol' Big Muff. It features a toggle switch (Fat/Thin) that changes the output capacitor from the first stage, and a rotary switch (mode) that...
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Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Mk. III (ish)
I've gotten a few requests for the Mk. III and found several good stock layouts on FSB, so I thought I'd go with a slightly modified version of the DLS Mk. III. This has an added presence control, as...
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