FX LAYOUTS build candidates.

FUZZ

• Prescription Electronics Yardbox
• Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe
• Way Huge Piercing Moose Octifuzz
• Frantone Peachfuzz
• Catalinbread Merkin Fuzz
  

DIRT

• Way Huge Red Llama
• Xotic EP Booster
• Cornish SS-2
• Klon Centaur
• Klon Centaur Silver Edition
• Ibanez TS808
• Ibanez TS9
• Maxon OD808
• Maxon / Ibanez SD9 Sonic Distortion
• Wampler Ecstasy
• Wampler Paisley Drive
• Wampler Triple Wreck
• Fulltone OCD
• Fulltone Soul-Bender
• Fulltone Fatboost V1
• Analogman King of Tone
• Suhr Riot
• Hermida Audio / Lovepedal Dover Drive
• Hermida Zendrive
• Paul Cochrane Timmy
• Vemuram Jan Ray
• Barber LTD Silver
• Fairfield Circuitry - The Barbershop
• OKKO Dominator
• OKKO Diablo
• Landgraff MO'D
• Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive
• Menatone Blue Collar
• Menatone Red Snapper
• Proco Rat
• Crowther Hotcake
         

OTHER

• Hearthrob Tremolo
• Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay
• Colorsound Wah
• Keeley 4-Knob Compressor
• Crowther Audio Prunes & Custard
• Earthquaker Devices Sea Machine.
        

The Ultimate Interval Workout

From http://philbguitar.blogspot.com/2012/01/ultimate-interval-workout.html

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe FootSwitch Project

2017.11.09 Update. Made a vero layout that needs to tested.

        

3in1 DIY Dirt

Brewing up ideas of two 3in1 effect pedal boxes. I made a prototype version, but the enclosure is limited and shorts from time to time. I bought some proper enclosures for better execution. The idea is that every board has a 2-3 stage dirt, yet there are some many variations. The 3in1 will be wired to easily interchange and switch out the pcb's and down the line can be mixed and matched at one's hearts desire. The first stage is an always on low gain, and when stomped it will go to a tuner.

Dirt : Low Gain => High Gain=> Fuzz

1) MP Sweet Honey=> MIA CrunchBox=>BJFE Candy Apple Fuzz Gold

1) BJFE Sweet Honey=> BearFoot Dyna Red Distortion=>BJFE Pink Purple Fuzz

2) Hermida ZenDrive=>Cochrane Timmy=>

3) Xotic RC => Xotic AC => Xotic BB

Reading Music

After some googling, I will try to get a hold of a few books for reading music.

1. Howard Roberts Sight Reading Manual For Guitar, which was the text at MI for many years.
2. Sight To Sound by Leon White. 
3. M.I.'s Music Reading for the Guitar
4. William Leavitt Modern Method for guitar Vol I, II, III and  Melodic Rhythms
5. Real Book

Snippet from Harmony Central.

http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/guitar/acapella-40/1882126-

In my opinion it takes a good book, and some other things to supplement it.

Unfortunately the most effective book I've ever known is now orphaned, and out of print. That would be Howard Roberts Sight Reading Manual For Guitar, which was the text at MI for many years.

Now I would suggest Sight To Sound by Leon White. Couple this with Leavitt's Melodic Rhythms, and you'll have most of what you need.

Next get a spiral bound notebook of staff paper. Every time you encounter a difficult rhythm, write it down. And write down what ever applicable subdivisions
apply. Meaning that a 1/4 note rhythm should be written as 1/2 notes as well (if possible) and 8th and 16ths as well. Practice these rhythms each night slowly with a metronome BEFORE working through the books. After going through the books, be sure to read through the Real Book or some other music. Also, you should read unfamiliar music everyday.

CHRIS CORNELL - SUNSHOWER

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/c/chris_cornell/sunshower_ver2_crd.htm

CHRIS CORNELL - SUNSHOWER

=========================

Transcription: DelValleKidd

Tuninng      : Standard

Chords Used  :

  D9   G/C   G/B   G/Bb  G/F    A7   Asus4  E    Bm  Bm7  F#m   D

|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0----2----2----2----2----|

|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----2-----3-----0----3----3----2----3----|

|-2-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----2-----1----4----2----2----2----|

|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----2-----2-----2----4----4----4----0----|

|-------3-----2-----1-----x-----0-----0-----2----2----2----4---------|

|-------------------------1-----------------0--------------2---------|

Intro: D - D9 – G/B – G/F – G/E – G/Bb – A - Asus4

D       D9     G/C               

Dark as roses  fine as sand,

D         D9                G/B   G/Bb

Feel your healing  and your sting again

D        D9              G/B       G/F

Hear you laughing and my soul is saved,   

      G/B    G/Bb       A - Asus4

on forgotton graves you cry

D        D9     G/C              

Cry like ivy up my spin

D          D9           G/B   G/Bb

through my nerves and into my eyes

D         D9        

Cuts like anguish or

G/B    G/F          E                A - Asus4

Reco - llections of better days gone by

           Bm                 D                    

But it's alright  when you're all in pain

        F#m                Bm - Bm7

and you feel the rain come down                       

       E               D                     

It's alright  when you find your way

         F#m              Bm  - Bm7

then you see it disappear

       E                  D                  

It's alright  though your garden's gray 

       F#m              Bm           A

I know all your graces  someday will flower ooh

E       A7

Oh-oh   Oh-oh

                D    D    D    D    A-Asus4

In the sweet sunshower

D         D9         G/C

Eyes like oceans  so far away

  D       D9         G/B    G/Bb

A feather trail to a better way

D       D9            G/B  G/F 

Worried mornings turn into days

     E            A  -  Asus4

then into worried nights

           Bm                 D                    

But it's alright  when you're all in pain

        F#m                Bm - Bm7

and you feel the rain come down                       

       E               D                    

It's alright  when you find your way

         F#m              Bm  - Bm7

then you see it disappear

       E                  D                  

It's alright  though your garden's gray 

       F#m              Bm           A

I know all your graces  someday will flower ooh

E       A7

Oh-oh   Oh-oh

                D    D    D    D    A-Asus4

In the sweet sunshower

Low Impedance Input

Great link about buffers and input impedance.

http://screaminfx.com/tech/why-and-when-to-use-a-guitar-buffer-pedal.htm

With my pedal board I setup an input unit that has an input buffer/booster with a tuner output.

The input signal always goes through the booster, then the stomp either directs the signal to the rest of the board or to the tuner.

The booster is an AMZ mosfet booster with high input impedance and moderately low output impedance..

http://www.muzique.com/schem/mosfet.htm

http://diy-layout.com/36