I think most people are a little scared to open up and tinker around with their guitar pickups and effects pedals. It’s like there’s some sort of special voodoo magic inside the components that shape our tone. Truth be told most of the time there’s nothing too crazy to deal …
The MXR Custom Badass ’78 Distortion is the first of the new line of Custom Badass pedals. The ’78 Distortion is an awesome sounding pedal based off a vintage distortion design, and modified to the hilt to provide awesome tones. Jam packed with awesome amp-like distortion the ’78 Distortion has …
Over the past few weeks I’ve been spending my spare time working on a new pedal build, my first using an integrated circuit (IC). The MXR Distortion+ circuit is a fairly simple circuit to build, using the LM741 operational amplifier (op amp), two diodes, and a handful of capacitors and …
Goosoniqueworx is a small effects pedal manufacturer from Singapore. The Seventh Heaven is a high gain twin channel distortion pedal with a bit of a difference. Rather than using diodes to clip the signal the Seventh Heaven utilises cascaded JFETs to achieve high gain distortion very similar to a high …
The MI Effects Crunch Box Distortion is MI Effects take on high gain hot-rod British amp distortion. It offers a strong mid-presence that is commonly associated with Marshall amplifiers, and a wide range of gain is on tap. It may be small, and seem like it has a fairly limited …