BK Butler Tube Driver (1989)


Japanese Guitar Effect Schematics



Tube "driver" ... 


Compression / Distortion ?


Compressor / Soft Distortion 

Rockin / VCF PCB
 
 
 
 


 Auto Pan PCB
 
 

 Stereo Box ?


Super Ring Modulator 




 TC Preamp w/ PCB





2 Channel Mixer


 
Noise Gate w/ PCB


BBD Delay PCB





Alembic Boost PCB




Harmonic Exciter












Guitar Synth


 

Ibanez LM7 L.A. Metal (layout v2)


ProCo RAT 2 - Vero Layout


BBE AM64 ( American Metal )


The input cap (4n7) could be upped to at least 22n and there are other things one could do to this too. Clipping on a switch and so on. The power filter cap is 1000µF in the original unit, but i left it at 220µ for this layout. Both of those values are a overkill. You'd be fine with 47µ or 100µ in its place.

BBE Crusher ( Marshall Guv'nor variant ) Vero Layout

For Power supply cap you can also so use 47µ, 100µ or 220µ instead of the 1000µ.

Peavey Hotfoot Distortion


VFE Old School Tremolo


GTC Bloody Finger


Devi Ever US Fuzz


BJFE HoneyBee / Honey Bee - Vero layout


Build an Audio Probe to diagnose Pedal Problems


Audio Probe

This is very simple yet very useful tool for debugging new pedals. You need one 1/4″ mono plug, one 100nF capacitor, alligator clip and some wire. Connect alligator clip to jack shield and 100nF cap to jack tip. When debugging some circuit connect clip to circuit ground and use other end of cap (or wire connected to other end of cap) to follow signal path through circuit. Plug the probe into amp and plug guitar cord to pedal input (pedal output stays unplugged). Make someone play guitar while you’re probing circuit and once you find a spot where nothing is heard through amp you found a possible problem.



If you have a cap small enough you can fit into plug casing. It will look nicer and cap will be protected inside. It can be seen on this photo how I did it. If you can’t find any slave around to play guitar while you’re probing the circuit it’s not a bad idea to connect guitar cable to sound card output and just play some music on computer.
The other way to make this useful tool is using 1/4″ jack socket and regular guitar cable. Advantage over previous design is that you need shorter probe leads and you can use as long guitar cable as you need.

If you have a cap small enough you can fit into plug casing. It will look nicer and cap will be protected inside. It can be seen on this photo how I did it. If you can’t find any slave around to play guitar while you’re probing the circuit it’s not a bad idea to connect guitar cable to sound card output and just play some music on computer. 



The other way to make this useful tool is using 1/4″ jack socket and regular guitar cable. Advantage over previous design is that you need shorter probe leads and you can use as long guitar cable as you need.





This probe includes resistors / some noise protection


Original Source:  http://diy-fever.com/misc/audio-probe/