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Original Tracer Layouts A collection of original layouts for vintage guitar effects. If you want to build real replica's of vintage pedals, this is the forum you want to look at.
This page tries to keep the available projects indexed.
If you want to share files to build a effect that's not yet (widely) available, it would be a pleasure for us to host it here.
The projects should be verified , though, and at least contain a schematic , some layout file (transfer, vero, perf) and a component layout file .
Incomplete or unverified projects will be moved to the Projects in Progress folder: if you fall upon such a project, please report the...
so a friend asked me for a treble booster... well, they asked me to repair a rangemaster clone, it arrived doa, i said dude, i don't wanna deal with fixing it...i'd have to make it work to mod it, and i'm like... not worth the time/expence.
so i grabbed some random shit on my bench, and threw together my own.... sorry, no schematic or layout yet.... on perf, which i never used before. not sold on it..
but i wanted to mod it from typical treble booster, so there's a nod to the bazz fuss as...
Yesterday I finished prototype of 6J1 (cheap Chinese tube) drive using 9V :D It sounds really awesome so I wanted to share it.
6J1_tube_drive.png
Heaters can be supplied by 7806 or by simple 100ohm resistor (min 0.5W).
R7 can be replaced by potentiometer (10K) to have simple Tone Control there. Or you can add any tone stack in place of R12. It works quite good as preamp with Fender tone stack.
Blue LED can be removed - but it looks so awesome :)
Hi I just made a smd layout for the Fuzz Face. I thought I'll call it a Nano Face, the name describe the project quite well. :mrgreen: There are two versions of PCB with electrolytics in smd and with the through hole ones too. PCB dimensions are: 19,5mmx18mm. :D Not verified yet, I will verify this today. Ok, here are the files:
EDIT: I'm not 100% sure about pinout of the transistors so I will make a second version with swapped collector and emitter so it can almost any transistor can be used.
I got an enclosure from Franco @ Argenziano Effetti, and originally was going to etch my own board but decided it was easier to get one pre-done from Brook at Pigeon FX. I used NOS 1/2w resistors (not sure brand, probably AB, had a ton of them), new Nichicon caps, some greenies from Tayda, BC108 in Q1 and 2SC945s for most of the remainder, but ran out and had to temporarily use some 828 pulls.
Originally I had some issues from wiring the transformer for 220v...
A few months ago, I got the idea of reworking the Big Muff in a modern fashion, using op amps, while remaining true to the logic behind the original. The op amp muff is a cool circuit but deviates substantially from the original (I don't think anyone would say they are the same) and for one thing, the tone and volume control attached passively at then end don't thrill me. The logic behind the original muff is simple: an amplifier, two clipping stages, a tone control and a recovery stage. How...
i'm looking to etch a PCB that would enable the use of a TDA1022P (16 pin) in place of an MN3002 (14 pin) but i don't know how the pinouts would have to be rearranged to make them match. i saw one available for purchase and was only $2.75 but the shipping was $30 from overseas. ( ) does anyone here know what the pinout conversion would be? it would be greatly appreciated! thanks in advance!
After getting a old PA sniffing unit that is similar to a transistor radio circuit I ordered a couple of small signal transformers intending to build a few circuits that I've been looking into.
Here's the first one albeit a bit more complex than I what I was going to build at first. My intention was originally was just a pickup simulator.
Right after the transformer order I got an Newcomb E-17 amp that I'm looking to mod, that thread is here.
Hi guys.
I designed a fuzz circuit on silicon transistors with overload on germanium transistors. Germanium transistors will suit any. Recorded through a microphone from a SE amplifier with 1x12 Seventy 80
I want to make a pedal out of the Nobel's Sound Studio (none of the modulations) and I am having trouble determining where the clean, compressor, and outputs are coming from the circuit. I have attached some cleaned up schematics, hoping they will help someone show me where the outputs connect to the eq sections. I can see how the (2) eq sections are connected, I am having issues seeing where the normal guitar tone would come from, compressor output is, and the overdrive section. Here is...
Hello my friends
I am particularly proud and pleased with this new project - I have just completed the working prototype - pictures to follow :wink:
I started this project by trying to reverse engineer the Demeter Compulator from pictures posted here by some of you folks, but I could not see the solder side of the board and despite numerous requests, nobody posted it :cry:
So, I quietly shelved this project and did some work on other projects, but yesterday a friend kindly provided me his...
Here is probably the most famous DIY build of the Gristleizer from the 70's Practical Electronic article. Complete with gutshots!
Building the Gristleizer.pdf
I had heard of the Gristleizer or Gristle Box that TG used, but I wasn't sure if it was the same thing as the Gristleizer schematic I'd seen on some of the DIY sites. I now see that it is indeed the same circuit.
It's really cool seeing one of Chris Carter's originals. I'm a huge TG fan.
a bud was talking about a fuzz he had a dream about, and i was bored so i decided to draw something up.
many years ago i stole adapted culture jam's dead easy dirt 386 distortion into what i called the stiff hippy ... i was f'in around with it on my bench for shits n grins, and as a candidate for an overdrive pedal for MLA, and said... hmmm...
cris wanted fuzz, gain, filter and a switch to choose si, both with a blend pot, or ge clipping. since the stiff hippy had a philter on it already, i...
I really liked the sound of the very popular darkglass pedals, like the vintage and the b3k, but looking at the schematic it felt wasteful of components and with some weird values maybe dictated by smd. So i embarked on a journey to make my own workalike with the goal of keeping parts count and board size down, while trying to keep the same sound and staging. Doing so, the circuit went down from using a quad opamp, a dual opamp, an hex inverter and two jfets to just a dual opamp, an hex...
Revisiting a circuit I dreamed up years back and to the best of my knowledge this has not been done this way before so I thought folks might like to try it.
This does a fairly good job of emulating a spinning speaker effect.It's based on a XR2206 function generator chip and with a few added parts can do a Tremolo/Vibrato effect as well as a fake Leslie spin. Most of this is accidental discovery not brain power so I'm not sure how/why this works
but there is obviously some inter-modulation...
I am trying to put together a box that will fulfil the same purpose as this
frequency splitter:
I based this on these circuits: and . However I haven't done any circuit design or analysis forever, so I was hoping someone would be willing to take a look and advise on anything I got wrong or could've implemented better:
Hi friends
This design is an attempt to simulate the harmonic distortion characteristics of a triode valve (vacuum tube) using an n channel jfet in an unusual configuration. The design is based on an idea by Dimitri Danyuk, who presented it at an Audio Engineering society meeting in Berlin 2004. His emulator ran off a bipolar 15 volt supply and included a blend control to allow folks present to hear the difference between the emulator and a bypassed musical signal. he also included a peak...
I recently finished a PT2399 Tap Tempo project called Bontempo. It's based on a Attiny84A and a MCP41100 digital pot.
All details are on my website and Github
It probably can be of use to most people using PT2399 fo delay. Adding presets is pretty cool and I spent a lot of time on intuitiveness.
Here's most features :
- 40 to 1200ms of delay
- 6 tempo divisions (fourth, dotted eighth, eighth, triplet, sixteenth, sextuplet)
- around 30ms of modulation
- 6 modulation waveforms (sine,...
Well i started to work on preamp for Dual Rectifier like distortion. I started with by improving Dr Boogey. These things i discussed with you guy in this forum previously. Now i finally it is over and successful. I never intended to simulate tube sound but i want great sound heavey distortion like Dual Rectifier and now iam successful.
I present 2 design in front of you.
1) Driab2 (Dual Rectifer in box 2)
is the mu-amp version of Dr Boogey without tone stack. I added lpf before volume pot...
The circuit I've just drawn up (see below) was my first attempt at a phaser way back in 1972. The circuit was developed at Texas Instruments in Manton Lane, Bedford (where I worked for a while as a student). In those days, I used 741S low noise op-amps. The whole circuit works from a single 9V battery, and a friend of mine just built one using a lone TL074! The sweep oscillator is a Schmitt relaxation oscillator, and rather than take the squarewave from the output pin (which could be used to...
I don't usually design boosts or dirt box, but I thought I would have some fun with the Fuzzrocious Ram the Manparts circuit. I've made a significant number of changes, but thought I would pay homage to the name of the original with Rochambeau (or at least that's what my Southpark watching friends tell me). It's a simple affair, with huge amounts of boost on tap. As a standalone dirt pedal it's squarely medium gain is all, but it's quick, dirty, easy, and effective. If you want to build one,...
Hi fellow diyers :)
A couple of folks have requested an overdrive design based on the Splawn Quick Rod, so here at last is my take on it.
I modeled the 2nd gear channel and paid close attention to the frequency response, phase behaviour and clipping characteristics.
I used the TLC2264 quad opamp for this design and (like Tech 21) biased two of the stages so they would clip assymetrically.
The TLC2264 is a rail to rail all cmos opamp - Tech 21 use the TLC2262 dual version in their circuits -...
Calling all Neil Young fans :lol:
Here is the BAJA 5E3 Deluxe 9v overdrive pedal for you :wink:
I designed the vero layout first using forum member bancika's excellent DIY PCB creator software, before building this pedal and it worked first time - lol.
Here is the schematic, vero layout and vero cutting guide (viewed from the track side :wink: ). I bought some vero clone board from a supplier on Aliexpress - a bit cheaper than the genuine vero and it works extremely well too!
enjoy :thumbsup...
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