Pedal-specific info

I'm adding these as I have time, grabbing photos from the photo page and overviews from whereever I can get them. Any help is greatly appreciated. - Dave_B

Boosters

• AMZ Mosfet Booster
• Dragonfly FX Sparkleboost
• Ibanez Tube Screamer
• Orange Booster
• Fat Boost
• Electro Harmonix Hogs Foot Bass Booster
• BMF Fat Bastard
• Run Off Groove Fetzer Valve
• PRL Booster
• Rangemaster
• Run Off Grove May Queen

Overdrives

• Colorsound Overdriver - Overdriver MP3 sound sample
• General Guitar Gadget's Blue Magic
• Ampeg Scrambler
• Fooltone The pdf on page one is gone, but a good link to the schematic is on page two.
• Hotcake

Distortion

• Electro Harmonix Big Muff Several versions of the BMP are here.
• Interfax Harmonic Percolator
• Brown Sound In A Box II
• Dr. Boogey - Emulation of Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo Head

Aron Nelson

Shaka Express -- Hi-gain distortion with mid control.

• Shaka Express Schematic PDF - Sound Sample

Booster 2.5 FET overdrive

• Schematic - Sound Sample

Shaka HV Higher Voltage Overdrive

• Schematic - 30 volts low to medium drive sample - 30 volts Hi-drive sample

Shaka Braddah 3 Op amp->FET overdrive

• Schematic - SB3->amp Sound Sample

Shaka Tube Low-voltage op amp->12AX7 overdrive

• Schematics - Sound Sample

Joe Davisson circuits

Obsidian -- Metal distortion with a BMP tone control.

• Schematic

Vulcan

• Schematic - MP3 sound sample

Blackfire --

• Schematic

CD4049 circuits: TSF, Red Llama, EH Hot Tubes, Hot Harmonics ...

• 4049 distortion + opamp

Insane and Novelty Distortion Circuits

Uglyface

• Building An Uglyface

Skyripper -- Quite Possibly The World's Greatest Fuzz

• Schematic
• Example build
• MP3 sample

NVN Joe Gagan Fuzz Schematics

Bronto Boost

• [1]
• [2]
• [3]
• [4]

Buffer

• [5]

Decade

• [6]
• [7]

Dino Drive

• [8]

Dino Fuzz Booster

• [9]

Dinosaur Fuzz

• [10]
• [11]
• [12]
• [13]

Easy Face

• [14]
• [15]
• [16]
• [17]
• [18]

Easy Ripper

• [19]

GT Fuz

• [20]

Input Bias Mod

• [21]

Lefty Idiot Wah

• [22]

Nitro Burner

• [23]

Meterless Nitro Burner

• [24]

Skyripper 1

• [25]

Skyripper 2

• [26]

Skyripper 3

• [27]

Tape Measure Boost

• [28]

Tarpit Melt Down 2

• [29]

Tarpit Melt Down 3

• [30]

Tone Dog 1

• [31]

Tone Dog 2

• [32]

Compressors

• Ross
• Dynacomp
• Orange Squeezer

Also see AMZ-FX for notes on where to place compressors in your effects chain.

Phase Shifters

For general information on phase shifters, see the "Technology Of Phase Shifters and Flangers" article by R.G. Keen.

• R.G. Keen's Neovibe (Univibe)
• Easivibe (Univibe)
• Forumvibe (Univibe)
• MXR Phase 45
• MXR Phase 90
• Ross
• Small Stone
• Causality 4

Flangers

For general information on flangers, see the "Technology Of Phase Shifters and Flangers" article by R.G. Keen.

• A/DA Flanger
• Ibanez 301 Flanger
• Electric Mistress

Chorus

• Small Clone

Tremolo

• Tiny Tremolo
• Tremulus Lune
• EA Tremolo - Transistor based design
• Pulsar Tremolo - Tonepad
• Tap Tempo Tremolo - Taylor Livingston
• ROG Tremolo - Run Off Grove
• Hearthrob - Smooth transistor based tremolo
• Tremulous Bear - Small Bear Electronics

Equalizers

• Run Off Groove's Mr. EQ

Octave Pedals

• Tycobrahe Octavia
• Green Ringer

Bit Crushers

• Nyquist Aliaser
• Extreme 8-bit-ish Sounds

Buffers / Splitters / Effects Loopers / Blenders

• Misc Buffers, Splitters, and Loopers
• Buff N Blend - Simple, single transistor blender.
• Paralooper - Opamp blender for bass.
• BBlender - OpAmp blender for bass.
• Minimal Blender - A bare bones blender for bass.

Echo / Delay

• Echobase
• Rebote
• PT80

Wah Pedals

• Basic Wah Pedal
• Anderton Wah-AntiWah
• ROG Noomerang - A modified Boomerang wah

For general information on wah pedals, see the "Technology Of Wah Pedals" article by R.G. Keen.

Andreas Möller has comprehensive instructions on modifying wah pedals on his stinkfoot.se site as does Paul Marossy at his DIYguitarist.com site.

See also the comparison of different wah pedals.

Volume Pedals

• Anderton Volume Pedal

Amps

• Run Off Groove Little Gem
• Run Off Groove's Ruby Amp
• Tiny Giant

Power Supplies

• Spider - 8 output, isolated power supply
• Small Wart - Adjustable regulated power supply designs by SmallBear Electronics
• Misc Power Supplies

Leslie Speakers

Admittedly not a pedal, but a popular thing to plug a guitar into.

• DIYS Wiki Leslie Page

Related Misc Projects

Condensor Mics

• DIY Condensor Mic
• Scott Helmke's well regarded Alice Mic

E-bow

• Pics and Schematic

Scholz Rockman X100

• Scans of the REV10 board with mods.

DIY Boxes, Mixers

Simple DIY box using op amps

• Simple op amp DIY box

Bass Guitar Effects

Bazz Fuss

• Building a Bazz Fuss
• Bazz Fuss Basics

Gruntbox

• Schematic and Clip

Paralooper (Bass FX loop)

• Paralooper