GUILD: Brian May Box

The layout is for the Guild Brian May Box, which on the Guild schematic is marked as designed by Pete Cornish, but he has disputed this.

There's a massive write-up here on Fryer Guitars, including photos of inside Brian May's Pete Cornish built pedal board, and inside a pretty vintage looking Pete Cornish treble boost, which also happens to contain a buffer.  Given that Fryer rebuilt AC30's for Brian May and has a few of his own treble boosters, I think the man knows a thing or two.

Either way it's a buffered treble boost.  You can either wire this up as buffered or true bypass, whatever you prefer. 

GUILD BRIAN MAY TREBLE BOOSTER - VERO LAYOUT

GUILD BRIAN MAY TREBLE BOOSTER - ORIGINAL SCHEMATIC

GUILD BRIAN MAY TREBLE BOOSTER - LTSPICE

Not much to see here.

And one difference to other treble boosters from the Rangemaster family is the 10n input cap vs the standard 4.7n.   

GUILD: Foxey Lady, Point to Point and Vero Layouts (two knob version)

This is an early two knob Guild Foxey Lady, which is very similar to a silicon Mosrite Fuzzrite.  However it’s different to other schematics I have seen online -  

I traced this from the circuit shown below - it's easy to make out part values, excluding the pots and transistors.  I left some room for power filtering too, should be able to fit an extra cap / resistor / diode on there without any trouble.

GUILD FOXEY LADY - POINT TO POINT LAYOUT

GUILD FOXEY LADY - VERO LAYOUT

As you can see I converted the P2P layout to vero - could have been smaller, but no matter - it's still on small side of things anyway.

GUILD FOXEY LADY SCHEMATIC

I traced the circuit from the photos below, taken from David Morrin's website (hope you don't mind me using them Dave).  

 I don't know what the actual pot values are - the usual suspects for a Guild Foxey Lady would be a good starting point (100k).  Dave mentions that they are dated 1968.  Not sure about the transistors either, 2N5133 or similar is a distinct possibility. 

The traced circuit is a lot brighter than the standard schematic - no surprise given the 1n cap on Q2 instead of the 3n3