so i finally got my buddy's dirty boots finished. it's going to be used on guitar and organ, so i added a couple extra controls. a pre-bass and post-treble tone control combo work great together. this is the main recipe for filtering distortion pedals, so it's no surprise. i plan on doing a full overhaul of this design in the future, to see if i can optimize it any further, but until then, this one sounds great. here's the schematic i ended up with.
and some gut shots.
unfortunately i ran out of alpha pots in the values i needed, but the ones i ended up using are of decent quality. here's a couple clips i made of the harder fuzz that this pedal can do. the first is the DB by itself, the second is boosted. disregard the titles. it was 5:30 am when i got this thing finished last night.
8.12.11
7.12.11
BLACK MUFF MODS
recently, keith from the band MY COLD DEAD HAND, asked me to replace a faulty switch on his Black Russian Big Muff. well, of course i couldn't just leave it at that! i rewired the whole thing, and added lots of new modifications. it turned out extremely heavy and doomy. he loves it! this is what i ended up with-
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