New projects for Valentine’s Day

February 14, 2015
Announcements

As promised, I’ve got three new projects that are available today. All of these projects have detailed circuit history and analysis on the page as well, so there’s plenty to read about.

Ibanez ST-9 Super Tube Screamer / Cirrus Overdrive PCBCirrus Overdrive (Ibanez ST-9 Super Tube Screamer)

The Super Tube Screamer is a very rare TS variant that was only released in Europe and Japan in the mid-80s and only in extremely limited quantities. It’s a standard Tube Screamer with a semi-parametric midrange boost before the clipping section. Very cool circuit. The STL Super Tube is very similar and you can build either version with this PCB.

View the Cirrus Overdrive project →

Ibanez MT-10 Mostortion / Quantum Distortion PCBQuantum Overdrive (Ibanez MT-10 Mostortion)

The Mostortion was a late addition to the “10 Series” in the early 90s. Similar topology to a Tube Screamer, but it has a 3-band EQ like you’d find on an amp as well as a unique MOSFET op-amp. This one never got a lot of attention but it’s a fantastic circuit. It uses onboard 9mm pots for a five-knob layout in a 1590B.

View the Quantum Overdrive project →

Maxon OD-880 Overdrive Soft Distortion / Quark Overdrive PCBQuark Overdrive (Maxon OD-880)

The Maxon OD-880 was released in 1976 and is sort of a transitional circuit (or hybrid) between the MXR Distortion+ and the Boss OD-1 OverDrive. It has hard-clipping diodes like the Dist+, but also adds an input buffer and a gain recovery stage, and gain is adjusted via a feedback resistor (like a Tube Screamer) rather than the inverting input ground resistor. This project has an EQ switch to control the bass and gain structure as well as a clipping diode switch.

View the Quark Overdrive project →

Micro 3PDT Bypass PCBMicro 3PDT Bypass in yellow

These micro 3PDT bypass boards are the smallest bypass PCBS out there. They were already available in blue, red and white, but now you can get them in yellow as well. This way you can match the color of any of my PCB projects.

View the Micro 3PDT Bypass project →

Restocks are also available for the Nimbus (Maxon OD-820) and Prism (Boss FA-1) projects. The Stratus (Tube Screamer) is currently out of stock, but a redesigned V2 will be available with the next round of releases in about a month. (No more running wires across the board to use the switch mods!)