YouTuber Waylon McPherson's EQ Ear

His layout with a couple of my things, like the status led. Which is not necessary for it to work but it lets me know when I have it turned on which is nice. I leave it with the volume dimed and control the fuzz from my guitar volume. But the tone knob is very useful to dial out harsh freqs on some fuzzes. Let look around I might have some docs or build notes I can send you.

I also built his LM386 amp board fuzz.
View attachment 117073
Nope sorry on the Anti-Buffer, you can just copy my layout from the pics, it's a simple build. All the components he discusses in his video.
 
Let look around I might have some docs or build notes I can send you.

No rush, I'm backed up on projects. But if it's easy and you get a moment, I would appreciate that.

I put his LM386 fuzz on a breadboard shortly after he released that video. I had some of those little PCBs on hand. Like a lot of his stuff, it was an agreeable way to pass the time, but as I recall only the first 5% of the volume pot was usable for me. Past that, it was an unpleasant cacophony of square waves.
 
No rush, I'm backed up on projects. But if it's easy and you get a moment, I would appreciate that.

I put his LM386 fuzz on a breadboard shortly after he released that video. I had some of those little PCBs on hand. Like a lot of his stuff, it was an agreeable way to pass the time, but as I recall only the first 5% of the volume pot was usable for me. Past that, it was an unpleasant cacophony of square waves.
Yah, it was a fun project and nice break from PCB's. I ordered the 386 amp boards from AliExpress.
There's definitely a lot of harsh tones out of it, which I expected seeing as it was an LM386 based dirt box.
I should dig it out and give it another go (or re-purpose the salvageable components... :LOL: )
 
For something like the pickup-sim/buffer buster... the info's out there, SCULLY!

Several of AionFX's (Solaris, Proteus etc) — and perhaps a few of PedalPCB's projects — have a transformer-before-fuzz, from which you could extrapolate a buffer-buster/pickup-simulator, not to mention:


Oops, I mentioned. ☺️


From Jack Orman's treasure trove of info: https://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm
Mr Orman even has a schematic as a jumping off point...
pickup4.gif

LAYOUT:

nudder layout:
amz-guitar-pickup-simulator-anti-buffer-a-handy-visual-v0-hk09g1sbuyng1.png.webp

Hello Sailor's take on Orman's AMZ:


If'n you want a PCB for it:
FUZZ DOG https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/picksim
MAS FX (following link is to the build-PDF): https://masfx.io/pickup-simulator.pdf
I don't know if McPherson offers a PCB. Maybe? 🤷‍♂️

Here's some fun with a Gyrator:

Other info resources:
[Hmmm there's one page that I can't find online, and I know I made a PDF about it as well... PDF must be on my old computer...]




Got a junk pickup you pulled from a cheap guitar so you could stick expensive pickups into the otherwise worthless guitar?





Stuff a pedal with the cloned guts of a '71 LP Recording guitar
LES PAUL RECORDING '71 LP WIRING Schematic.png

AND that brings us also to the topic of revoicing your guitar with some caps...
Get a bunch of caps on a rotary switch.

Since I play bass, most any guitar-oriented carefully curated collection of capacitors can't be capitalised upon by me, so I'll have to commit to culling my own happy cappy-freqiness...


Nonetheless the '71 LP WIRING schematic/diagram has some starter values on the DECADE rotary.

Now you've gotta decide do I need a fuil 12 options, or will 6, 5, or 4 do? How much rotary-ised capacitance will suffice for your needs?


Popping on the rotary? Is the switch brake-before-make? Or break-before-make? Will one way be better than the other? Can you add a pull-down resistor?

Simple layout courtesy of Dave over at Effects Layouts:

Potential (guitar) values to try:


Oooh one for the Bass Players — @Aleph Null, zat you ?








I'd like to spring for the schematic McPherson got out of ChatGPT, I'm interested in that — alas, at the moment there's too much in the BUILD-QUEUE to consider it just yet. Dagnabbit, there's always too much in the build-queue — one of which is the ChatGPT thinger from Robert/Revv.
 
For something like the pickup-sim/buffer buster... the info's out there, SCULLY!

Several of AionFX's (Solaris, Proteus etc) — and perhaps a few of PedalPCB's projects — have a transformer-before-fuzz, from which you could extrapolate a buffer-buster/pickup-simulator, not to mention:


Oops, I mentioned. ☺️


From Jack Orman's treasure trove of info: https://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm
Mr Orman even has a schematic as a jumping off point...
pickup4.gif

LAYOUT:

nudder layout:
View attachment 117128

Hello Sailor's take on Orman's AMZ:


If'n you want a PCB for it:
FUZZ DOG https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/picksim
MAS FX (following link is to the build-PDF): https://masfx.io/pickup-simulator.pdf
I don't know if McPherson offers a PCB. Maybe? 🤷‍♂️

Here's some fun with a Gyrator:

Other info resources:
[Hmmm there's one page that I can't find online, and I know I made a PDF about it as well... PDF must be on my old computer...]




Got a junk pickup you pulled from a cheap guitar so you could stick expensive pickups into the otherwise worthless guitar?





Stuff a pedal with the cloned guts of a '71 LP Recording guitar
View attachment 117129

AND that brings us also to the topic of revoicing your guitar with some caps...
Get a bunch of caps on a rotary switch.

Since I play bass, most any guitar-oriented carefully curated collection of capacitors can't be capitalised upon by me, so I'll have to commit to culling my own happy cappy-freqiness...


Nonetheless the '71 LP WIRING schematic/diagram has some starter values on the DECADE rotary.

Now you've gotta decide do I need a fuil 12 options, or will 6, 5, or 4 do? How much rotary-ised capacitance will suffice for your needs?


Popping on the rotary? Is the switch brake-before-make? Or break-before-make? Will one way be better than the other? Can you add a pull-down resistor?

Simple layout courtesy of Dave over at Effects Layouts:

Potential (guitar) values to try:


Oooh one for the Bass Players — @Aleph Null, zat you ?








I'd like to spring for the schematic McPherson got out of ChatGPT, I'm interested in that — alas, at the moment there's too much in the BUILD-QUEUE to consider it just yet. Dagnabbit, there's always too much in the build-queue — one of which is the ChatGPT thinger from Robert/Revv.
Holy crap that's a big hairball @Feral Feline just hawked up........ :p
 
For something like the pickup-sim/buffer buster... the info's out there, SCULLY!

Several of AionFX's (Solaris, Proteus etc) — and perhaps a few of PedalPCB's projects — have a transformer-before-fuzz, from which you could extrapolate a buffer-buster/pickup-simulator, not to mention:


Oops, I mentioned. ☺️


From Jack Orman's treasure trove of info: https://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm
Mr Orman even has a schematic as a jumping off point...
pickup4.gif

LAYOUT:

nudder layout:
View attachment 117128

Hello Sailor's take on Orman's AMZ:


If'n you want a PCB for it:
FUZZ DOG https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/picksim
MAS FX (following link is to the build-PDF): https://masfx.io/pickup-simulator.pdf
I don't know if McPherson offers a PCB. Maybe? 🤷‍♂️

Here's some fun with a Gyrator:

Other info resources:
[Hmmm there's one page that I can't find online, and I know I made a PDF about it as well... PDF must be on my old computer...]




Got a junk pickup you pulled from a cheap guitar so you could stick expensive pickups into the otherwise worthless guitar?





Stuff a pedal with the cloned guts of a '71 LP Recording guitar
View attachment 117129

AND that brings us also to the topic of revoicing your guitar with some caps...
Get a bunch of caps on a rotary switch.

Since I play bass, most any guitar-oriented carefully curated collection of capacitors can't be capitalised upon by me, so I'll have to commit to culling my own happy cappy-freqiness...


Nonetheless the '71 LP WIRING schematic/diagram has some starter values on the DECADE rotary.

Now you've gotta decide do I need a fuil 12 options, or will 6, 5, or 4 do? How much rotary-ised capacitance will suffice for your needs?


Popping on the rotary? Is the switch brake-before-make? Or break-before-make? Will one way be better than the other? Can you add a pull-down resistor?

Simple layout courtesy of Dave over at Effects Layouts:

Potential (guitar) values to try:


Oooh one for the Bass Players — @Aleph Null, zat you ?








I'd like to spring for the schematic McPherson got out of ChatGPT, I'm interested in that — alas, at the moment there's too much in the BUILD-QUEUE to consider it just yet. Dagnabbit, there's always too much in the build-queue — one of which is the ChatGPT thinger from Robert/Revv.
Ooooh I dig that FuzzDog board......j/k on the last post, thanks for the research and links dude:)
 
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