Boards and turrets! Yeah!
Here’s oldie TS9 from my private stash.
As you see on pictures it was made 1984, S/N starting at 4, and most electrolytic caps with date codes starts on 84XX makes me to think that.
There is no date codes or brand on the pots.
Battery cover and board are marked MAXON, IC chip is hated TA75558P, but I don’t really give a fuck about JRC mojo rave…
Diodes have legendary blue stripe, back plate is silver “pre CE” type. This and the rest is nicely visible on the picts attached..
Here’s tasty, oldshool Interfax – Harmonic Percolator vero project
Cross between fuzz and overdrive.
Hybrid germanium/silicon transistors with germanium diodes
You should be good with 0.1″ pitch stripboard as well as with wider 0.15″ doing this build, depend on what enclosure you’ll chose to use
0.15″ pitch vero is recommended due axial components use
Aria… Blast from the past. My first playable guitar was Aria brand back in early 90’s. The blue pearl Ibanez RG series ripoff.
This old school fuzz unit is kind of ripoff too. Closely based on EHX Big Muff Pi, minus output buffer.
All caps are ceramic in original RE-203, and my layout is designed to easily accommodate 2,5mm 560pF ceramics and 5mm raster caps for anything above.
You may bitching me for stand up resistors again, bud hey! RE-203 have them all that way.
Transistors are at this point unknown to me, I did my layout for common pin-out NPN silicon devices, use your favorite BMP trannies
Have fun
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Pawel
If You like Meathead tones but You need more knobs – here it is!
D*A*M Meathead Deluxe with added Filter and Fuzz control. Still angry beast but more controlable.
Filter is simple input capacitor blend, and Fuzz knob… well – it’s self explanatory 🙂
Layout of this pedal is very similar to Drag’N’Fly and Super Bee – beacuse all of those pedals are based on fuzz face circuit with changed components values.
Enjoy!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE 13/06/2012
Due to D*A*M counterfeit pedals that recently appeared on the marked all D*A*M straight layouts will be removed from turretboard.org and will be replaced soon with our own works and interpretations.
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Rock On!
b.man
Yo!
Another cool fuzz pedal from D*A*M – Meathead!
This name should tell evrything… Brutal silicon fuzz tones with big muscles. This pedal wasn’t designed to be nice 🙂 but to destroy!
Only one control, but lot of fun! Simple but effective! This pedal really can kick Your amp! You have been warned! So be carefull!
Circuit is based propably on Colorsound Fuzz Box (aka. One Knob Fuzz) with few tweeks to give it more power and midrange. It doesn’t have instant clean up as good germanium fuzz face, but it still response very well for guitar volume knob and picking strength.
I really dig it! It’s quite simple build without expensive mojo components, so it’s great project to start building pedals.
There where many versions of this pedal (Dark, Bass) but usually where changed only input and output caps. Will post more layouts for other versions in following days. Now it latest version called M-13.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE 13/06/2012
Due to D*A*M counterfeit pedals that recently appeared on the marked all D*A*M straight layouts will be removed from turretboard.org and will be replaced soon with our own works and interpretations.
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Cheers!
b.man
Grease Box… Dirt pedal desirable almost by every fuzz freak! 🙂 If You don’t want it You didn’t heard about it before or You already have one 😛
Seriously – very unique sounding fuzz box – D.A. Main wrote that “The Grease Box is a fuzz box that thinks, to some degree, that it’s an overdrive.” and this is perfect description! When we look at schematic – it’s MKIII or MKIV Tone Bender circuit with fixed output cap instead tone control and few component values are changed.
Lot’s of mids, crunch, gain and volume gives You lot of joy during playing. Sounds great on palm muting and power chords, too! It’s doesn’t have low gain Fuzz Face clean up, but it still have very nice dynamics!
Me likey!
In following days will add another layouts for this project!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE 13/06/2012
Due to D*A*M counterfeit pedals that recently appeared on the marked all D*A*M straight layouts will be removed from turretboard.org and will be replaced soon with our own works and interpretations.
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Rock On!
b.man
Hmm… Germanium or Silicon powered fuzz…? That is the question. Hey… why not both at the same time? 🙂 D*A*M answer is Drag’N’Fly!
Hybrid fuzz box based on Fuzz Face circit with increased gain and output, silicon flavour and touch of germanium warm. Temperature fluctuations stable.
Input filter (blend between two capacitors) allows to add exactly as many bottom end as needed. Very interesting concept.
Personally I don’t like input cap blend and prefer solution based on switch between two or three input caps, but many folks likes it – worth trying for sure.
Enjoy!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE 13/06/2012
Due to D*A*M counterfeit pedals that recently appeared on the marked all D*A*M straight layouts will be removed from turretboard.org and will be replaced soon with our own works and interpretations.
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Cheers,
b.man
Yo!
Here’s another D*A*M take on classic Vox Tone Bender circuit – Super Bee SB-66 which evolved from Super Bee mode in 1966 pedal.
Main change in cicruit – here we’ve got fixed input and output 100nF caps which results deeper tone focused on lower mid range. You can play with those cap to get darker or brighter tones. Also… You can change Level pot value – personally I preffer 100K or 250K over stock 470K which is little to dark for me.
This is really cool pedal – pure germanium fuzz tones!
Enjoy!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE 13/06/2012
Due to D*A*M counterfeit pedals that recently appeared on the marked all D*A*M straight layouts will be removed from turretboard.org and will be replaced soon with our own works and interpretations.
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Peace!
b.man