Category: Stompbox
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1776 PCBs
Just got some new PCBs from 1776. The quality looks great. The pots and rotary switch are attached to the PCB. This is the only way to go. I really don’t like lots of of board wiring. There are so many advantages board mounted controls. The layout is clean and organized. The board is fairly…
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Bass Overdrive
This is a bass overdrive built from PCBs from GuitarPCB.com. The boards were professionally made. The layout is good, with pots mounted to the PCB. The LED is also mounted to the PCB. Actually everything goes through the PCB, except for the ground wire from the battery clip. The system seemed to work well and…
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Ampeg Scrambler
Wired up this ampeg scrambler board I’ve had for a while. I’ve been trying to finish up all of the unfinished projects from the last few years. Fired up first test. I used MPSA13 transistors. I got the PCB from John Lyons on DIYStompboxes. It’s the tone pad layout. The layout is set up for…
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Morley volume pedal
I found this Morley Volume pedal at a garage sale for $5. I think it was a good deal. Not as sturdy as the Earnie Ball, it still feels pretty solid. It has a big toggle switch at the toe which turns it off and on. Not sure why you’d want to turn it off…
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Echobase
The Echobase is a PT2399 based delay with some extra features. It was developed as a DIY project at diystompboxes.com. *** by who! post a link The effect includes an LFO that varies the delay time. At low depth the effect adds some subtle vibrato. At higher depth the echo has strong vibrato to wildly…
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MOSFET boost and Lockhart fold frequency tripler
Sounds like a machine. Pretty easy build using a layout from freestompboxes.org. This version has a two drive knobs. The original only has a single drive knob. The circuit is built around two identical sections. Each of these sections is made of a Super Hard On, MosFET booster into the Lockhart circuit comprised of an…
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Tone Bender Mk I
A friend recommend building the Tone Bender Mk I. I hadn’t tried this before. So I thought I’d give it a go. It also helped that I had heard the one Joe built over a ToneFiend. Sounds pretty good. Sort of a cross between the Fuzz Face and the Tone Bender Mk II. Really the…
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Some Fuzz Faces
Finally getting back to building some Fuzz Face’s I started a while back. Here’s a picture, you can see the sockets for the transistors, two sets of three in a row, in the center. The input socket is two small socket pins on the right center, and the output cap is on the bottom center.
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Millenium Bypass – Working!
Millenium problesm all solved with the help of R.G. Who kindly pointed out that I probably didn’t have a path to ground on the out put of the effect. Which was exactly right. After having the Millennium work so well on the SHO, I decided to add one to a Fuzz Face. This Fuzz Face…
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Millenium Bypass
This is one of those things that has been around for a long time. Back in the olden days when the 3PDT switch was hard to get and cost as much as all of the other parts that went into a box. There was a need for a status LED that could be operated from…
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Box of MOSFET
Rock Box! I was talking to a friend about distortion boxes and the Box of Rock came up. Which got me thinking, I’d never heard one before, and Z Vex always makes good stuff. I found a schematic in the usual place. It looked like a pretty easy build. The Box is basically two pedals…
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Meatsphere?
The Meatsphere I hate that name. Then again it’s a play on the name Meatball. The Meatball, if you are not familiar, is an envelope filter based on the Mutron III. The Meatball was made by Lovetone who went out of business in the early to mid 2000s. Lovetone seems to be coming back. Hard…