Re: Vox Distortion Booster = Colorsound one knob fuzz?

Posted by Marbles on Mar 17, 2016; 6:22am
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Vox-Distortion-Booster-Colorsound-one-knob-fuzz-tp28841p28959.html

Thanks! That's great.

Weren't these solid state Vox amps used by The Stooges, MC5 and Velvet Underground as well?

Sounds great anyway. Love that Beatles tone! That clip in your last post of Paperback Writer, man that is an awesome guitar tone.

But I love the fuzzy sound in that 730 clip too. When he cranks the amp and plays Jimi Hendrix... It's not a Jimi sound to me at all, but man I love it. I want to get close to that. I hope I can with that distortion booster.

I modified the colorsound one knob to distortion booster specs, but so far it does not have that fuzzy sound. It's a bit too smooth. That was with 2n3904s though. I will be receiving some 2N2924s in the mail today hopefully. I don't think it will make that big of a difference, but who knows?


I also built that Treble Booster. It removes the lows, but does not Boost. Could that be because of the 500K pot I used? It's exactly unity when it's fully open. I didnt have a 2N2924 for that either, so used a 2N5088 just to see if that circuit worked. Could that be a reason?



If this is becoming too much of a 'Marc tries to build every built in Vox-effect known to man and needs help every step of the way'-thread I understand and can make different threads. I also just finished the Vox Repeater and that sounds awesome (though have to trouble shoot the clicking if possible).

But then again, all these questions have made me want that great sounding amp Frank :D