overdrive | Electronics

Dec 27, 20239 min read

Bijous: pretty BJT overdrives

Also on FSB! https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?p=297316 Introduction Electric guitarists have been long enamored with...

Feb 23, 20236 min read

"True" MOSFET clipping at 9V? Green Turtle overdrive and other applications

MOSFETs, the incredible devices at the core of modern devices, computers, power supplies and… distortion pedals? For some reason, there’s...

Nov 28, 20229 min read

Enveloping Timbre: envelope distortion

Keep the clarity of your attack before letting the distortion embrace you: the best of both worlds! At least that was the original idea...

Oct 6, 20225 min read

Dudson Narrowcast V2

This is a circuit I've made a little more than a year ago, as an answer to a very popular distortion pedal based on preamplifiers of the...

Jun 30, 20226 min read

Type C. OD and Plastic Timbre

Originally posted on the freestompboxes forum Type C. OD The OCD was my first veroboard build and a pedal I've always enjoyed as simple,...

May 30, 20226 min read

Clown Centurion

I like to take circuits I find interesting and rework them according to my taste, following some guidelines, which can be summed up as:...

May 2, 20225 min read

Blue Pilot, an integrated Blues Driver

Hello everyone. The Blues Driver always pops up among the most popular overdrive pedals, no doubt because many people like how it sounds,...

Apr 23, 20223 min read

"that" Overdrive

Do you know about that overdrive? No, not that one, that one, this one! You might know I like to be very straightforward or to clean up...