I was in my garage looking at a bunch of boxes that had been stored in the back for years. I found two boxes with a couple of dozen guitar pedals in them, from classic boxes to prototypes of my own designs that I had built, and some I had even forgotten.
This is a Brontoboost that I bought directly from Joe Gagan around 2002. I contributed the tone control design and a couple of other circuit snippets that I sent to Joe when he was first working on this pedal. The front panel features a custom painted and engraved art panel that is very cool.
Boosters are not buffers! While it is possible to make a booster that also provides a buffering action, the vast majority of the boosters commercially available ready-made or kits, do not have the proper design to be buffers.
The Coyote-1 Open Stomp pedal has arrived! The picture above is my actual unit. I’ll have more to report once I run it through some tests.
The documentation included on the CD that comes with the pedal is quite thorough and also includes a full schematic with datasheets for the major components. A quick look at the schematic reveals it to be a solid design.
This is the Multi-Purpose pc board that can be used to build a variety of projects to use as boosters or buffers, including designs for circuits using bipolar silicon, germanium, jfet and mosfet transistors. Each board purchase includes a link to a page of example circuits (with parts lists) that may be used with this board.
Circuits that can be built on this pcb include:
Silicon Transistor Booster
AMZ Muffer
AMZ Muffmaster
AC128 Germanium Transistor Booster
PNP Rangemaster-type Treble Booster
Germanium Transistor Buffer
Jfet Transistor Booster
Jfet Transistor Buffer/Line Driver
Mosfet Transistor Booster (not the AMZ Mosfet Booster)
The OpenStompâ„¢ Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor built for guitar players. With the Coyote-1 users can develop custom audio effects in software (like distortion, echo, chorus etc.), mix multiple effects to build “patches”, and exchange those effects and patches with the OpenStompâ„¢ community.
Just for fun, there is a page at HCFX with cartoon images of pedals that can be used to make a graphic representation of your pedalboard. Plenty of excellent user-submitted images are free for downloading. Make your own pedalboard graphic:
A recent email from Amazon said that most of the links on my site were using an obsolete technique that they will no longer support at the end of the month. I looked at the new specifications and could not find a direct link that suited my use…Â it may be available but it’s not worth my time to sift through their info to find it.
So, I’ve moved my large collection of books on effects pedals, amps and guitars to a new section. Take a minute and have a look around in it:
