A large online repository or library of guitar pedal schematics, layouts, PCB transfers, and tagboard layouts. All rights reserved to respective owner(s) - not for profit / for educational purposes ONLY.
DIY Guitar Pedal: Making a DIY guitar fuzz pedal is a fun and easy electronics weekend project for hobbyists and guitarists alike. Making a classic fuzz pedal is much easier than you think. It just uses two transistors and a handful of other components. Aside from sh…
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The Klon Centaur is a mythical pedal that sells for seriously high prices. Find out what all the hype is about, why there are so many Klon clones, and how to build your own clone using a kit.
Tube "driver" ... Compression / Distortion ? Compressor / Soft Distortion Rockin / VCF PCB ...
Someone showed me this circuit and it's a cool addition to this library. It's an old project from Electronics & Music Makers magazine and allows you to ramp up and down your volume. It's not a true-bypass pedal, but essentially an always-on boost that increases your volume when the momentary footswitch is pushed. More info and schematic can be found in these scans:
A large online repository or library of guitar pedal schematics, layouts, PCB transfers, and tagboard layouts. All rights reserved to respective owner(s) - not for profit / for educational purposes ONLY.
While I know we've posted this previously, I found this layout to be one of the more useful ones. Look into our archives / previous posts for more Valvecaster layouts. Power source I was getting better results with 12v 1A, see Garth's 24v version below. -K Another idea is to incorporate a boost of your own choice (i prefer the alembic stratoblaster) and hook that up before C1 . This gives the pedal an extra boost to the circuit so it distorts more. I would use separate pots for this, not a dual pot. WIRING DIAGRAM w/ LED & True Bypass Footswitch GARTH's VALVECASTER w/ MODS @ 24V
The way to create the "Reverb" effect can be divided into two types: mechanical and electronic, depending on the operation principle. The first and at the same
This is a library of perfboard and single-sided PCB effect layouts for guitar and bass for pedal building enthusiasts.
PT2399 is a chip built in echo effect circuit, built some parts, basic guitar effects. DIY experimenters also a good choice.
A nice illustration from a Spanish edition of Popular Mechanics… Always looking for inspiration…
Here's a compressor design from MicTester. Here's what he had to say about it over on FSB: Do you remember the old-fashioned way of doing bass compression? It used an LDR across the volume control illuminated by an incandescent lamp across the speaker terminals! It was a simple method back in the 60s.... This compressor is almost that simple! It uses a handful of cheap components (I built one for £9 including hardware!), but works really well. Guitarists who've tried it often ask "Is it on?", but miss it when it's off! It's quiet, and has good "squeeze" without the gain-change artifacts you frequently get with transconductance amplifiers or FETs. The LDR should be ~1M in the dark, but almost anything will do. Some of the component values are quite carefully chosen. The input capacitor (15nF - made up of a 10 and a 4.7 if the 15 is unavailable) is chosen to give some frequency shaping, and the interstage capacitor prevents handling noise affecting the compression. Green LEDs are chosen because they most closely match the response of the LDR, but yellow works almost as well. Obviously, the LDR / LED combination should be facing each other, and must be in a light-tight enclosure. I've set up the board with pads for both 10nF and 4.7nF in parallel if you don't have a 15nF cap.
You can never get enough of templates and metrics! Here are some of the templates I've used in my projects. For the Neck profile jig: Neck shape templates for Router Jig ALL For manual neck profile measurement: Neck profile templates Some neck profile measurements: Neck profile asymmetric shape measurements
Collection of vero (stripboard) & tagboard layouts for 100s of popular guitar effects, with over 500 verified designs. DIY your own boutique effects!
The Micro Amp is a classic clean boost circuit first introduced by MXR in the late 70s. It's a great option if you need to stomp on something for solos. Pretty simple op-amp design that should fit nicely in a 1590a.
The HM-2 is the godfather of all other heavy metal distortion stompboxes. While it was first introduced in the '80s, it's still a highly regarded circuit for metal applications with its high gain and crushing lows, especially if you live in Sweden. Said crushing lows are thanks to the gyrator tone stack (not something you see all that often). Original units only have high and low tone controls, but it's easy to add a mids control, and the layout below reflects that. If you don't want the Mids control, simply connect the Mids 2 pad to lug 2 of the Highs pot. It's a fairly big layout, but you should be able to fit it in a 125B without issue, and if you're really precise with your drilling you might able to squeeze it into a 1590B. Update July 13, 2016: Updated the layout so that the ICs are getting full 9v. Tone stack pots may need to be reduced to 10k.
