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Castledine Electronics The WizardVerified
Based on the Castledine The Wizard· 4 other boards clone it
- Category
- Distortion
- Build
- Vero· 21×18· 15 cuts, 5 links
- Layout
- Verified · Tagboard Effects marks it as built and working
- Tags
- Castledine Electronics, Distortion, Fuzz
From the post
From the source:
The Wizard is a new distortion pedal, inspired by Tony Iommi's guitar sound on the early Black Sabbath albums. It is well known that he used a modified Rangemaster to drive his amps, so the same principle was used for The Wizard. The first gain stage is essentially a Rangemaster, using a germanium transistor, but tweaked for a full range boost. That drives a distortion circuit which has been designed to give something of the tone and feel of a Laney Supergroup amp. Obviously, there is no substitute for a full stack at volume, but The Wizard has a similar distortion character and responds well to picking dynamics.
Schematic
This is a board layout, a drawing of where each part goes, and the post may link the schematic it was drawn from. Open the layout at Tagboard Effects. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.
Parts list 22 rows
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| Ref | Value | Normalized | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistors 7 | ||||
| ×6 | 470k | 470k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×4 | 4.7k | 4.7k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×3 | 22k | 22k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×3 | 10k | 10k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 100k | 100k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 56k | 56k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 68k | 68k | read from the layout by eye | |
| Capacitors 9 | ||||
| ×3 | 22nF | 22n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×2 | 47nF | 47n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×2 | 10nF | 10n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 2.2nF | 2.2n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 100pF | 100p | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 470pF | 470p | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 220pF | 220p | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 47uF | 47u | electrolytic; read from the layout by eye | |
| ×2 | 100uF | 100u | electrolytic; read from the layout by eye | |
| Diodes 1 | ||||
| D1 | 1N4001 | 1N4001 | read from the layout by eye | |
| Transistors 2 | ||||
| Q1 | CV7351 | CV7351 | NPN Germanium try 2N1308; read from the layout by eye | |
| ×5 | J201 | J201 | JFET; Q2-Q6; read from the layout by eye | |
| Potentiometers 3 | ||||
| Gain | A100K | A100k | Potentiometer | read from the layout by eye |
| Treble | A100K | A100k | Potentiometer | read from the layout by eye |
| Volume | A100K | A100k | Potentiometer | read from the layout by eye |
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