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
Contents
- 1 Boosters
- 2 Overdrives
- 3 Distortion
- 4 Compressors
- 5 Phase Shifters
- 6 Flangers
- 7 Chorus
- 8 Tremolo
- 9 Equalizers
- 10 Octave Pedals
- 11 Bit Crushers
- 12 Buffers / Splitters / Effects Loopers / Blenders
- 13 Echo / Delay
- 14 Wah Pedals
- 15 Envelope Filters and Auto Wahs
- 16 Volume Pedals
- 17 Amps
- 18 Power Supplies
- 19 Leslie Speakers
- 20 Related Misc Projects
- 21 DIY Boxes, Mixers
- 22 Bass Guitar Effects
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.
- Booster 2.5 FET overdrive
- Shaka HV Higher Voltage Overdrive
- Shaka Braddah 3 Op amp->FET overdrive
- Shaka Tube Low-voltage op amp->12AX7 overdrive
Joe Davisson circuits
- Obsidian -- Metal distortion with a BMP tone control.
- Vulcan
- Blackfire --
CD4049 circuits: TSF, Red Llama, EH Hot Tubes, Hot Harmonics ...
Insane and Novelty Distortion Circuits
Uglyface
Skyripper -- Quite Possibly The World's Greatest Fuzz
NVN Joe Gagan Fuzz Schematics
Bronto Boost
Buffer
Decade
Dino Drive
Dino Fuzz Booster
Dinosaur Fuzz
Easy Face
Easy Ripper
GT Fuz
Input Bias Mod
Lefty Idiot Wah
Nitro Burner
Meterless Nitro Burner
Skyripper 1
Skyripper 2
Skyripper 3
Tape Measure Boost
Tarpit Melt Down 2
Tarpit Melt Down 3
Tone Dog 1
Tone Dog 2
Compressors
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.
Chorus
Tremolo
- Tiny Tremolo - 555 IC based design
- Tremulus Lune - Opamp design.
- EA Tremolo - Transistor based design
- EH Pulsar - Opamp and transistor based.
- Tap Tempo Tremolo - Taylor Livingston
- ROG Tremolo - Run Off Grove
- Hearthrob - Smooth transistor based tremolo
- Tremulous Bear - Small Bear Electronics
Equalizers
Octave Pedals
Bit Crushers
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
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.
Envelope Filters and Auto Wahs
For general information, see the "Technology of Auto-Wahs / Envelope-Controlled Filters" article by R.G. Keen.
Volume Pedals
Amps
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.
Related Misc Projects
Condensor Mics
E-bow
Scholz Rockman X100
DIY Boxes, Mixers
Simple DIY box using op amps
Bass Guitar Effects
Bazz Fuss
Gruntbox
Paralooper (Bass FX loop)