Guitar Related Ramblings

I've had a couple of questions about these recently, and out of curiosity I decided to take a closer look.  In 2024, Sola Sound released...

Macari's often release pedals that are minor variations on the same circuit - in this case the "Sakata" Colorsound hybrid one ...

The D*A*M Drag n Fly DF-05 is a hybrid fuzz pedal that combines silicon and germanium transistors, drawing inspiration from the classic Fuzz...

This the D*A*M Dragonfly DF-06, which is somewhat confusingly not the same circuit as the D*A*M Drag n Fly.  They're both in the Fuzz F...

The Colorsound Fuzz Box has to be one of my favourite fuzz circuits, due to its simplicity and reliable results.  It's very much a one t...

This is a slightly modded Interfax Harmonic Percolator that I made today.  It's an odd little circuit - it can run from clean, a bit ove...

Similar to the previous Zonk Machine, this has a MKI switch for a larger input cap.  Have had this on the breadboard recently, and decided t...

Yet to build this myself, I quite like the idea behind this - I am partial to anything with bass / mid/high controls for guitar and a german...

This is a slightly different hybrid MKII than I have previously seen - this is a Sola Sound MKII built by D*A*M, referred to as the Black Fi...

I know one could make the three different effects and box them together, but I thought I might do a layout with them all on one board.   EAR...

This is the Peach Guitars version of the Hudson Broadcast, as traced by V1nce69 and posted on the Guitar FX layout forum .  Others also did ...

Since I've been on a bit of a Harmonic Percolator thing lately, I thought I might do some 0.15" mojo layouts using Albini / Mad Bea...

 A nice Harmonic Percolator variation from Catalinbread.  They've kept the bones of the original, and have added an input capacitor  ble...

Haven't done a tag board build for a while - so here's a classic.   INTERFAX HARMONIC PERCOLATOR HP-1 - TAGBOARD LAYOUT Being tag bo...

The RCA BA-31C would have been found in broadcast consoles of the day (late sixties), as a microphone preamp module.   I think it may have b...