Red Llama

This is the Way Huge clone of Craig Anderton's original Tube Sound Overdrive. Use a
CMOS chip to generate great overdrive sounds. In fact, the Way Huge version differs
only marginally. A couple of things of interest in this schematic. First off, R1, D1, and C1
are not part of the circuit’s sound at all: R1 and C1 filter the power supply to remove
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noisy if you are using a cheap AC adaptor, and D1 is a reverse-polarity protection diode + - + -
to protect the 4049 chip in case you plug in an AC adaptor with the wrong polarity. This 1 1
1MΩ
is a very common arrangement in stompboxes regardless of origin. Also, at first glance 2 2
the schematic appears to show five separate integrated circuits. In actuality, there is 3 3
only one, the five shown are schematic “shorthand” a way of clearly showing that the IC 4 4

100KΩ
is actually made up of multiple stages. 5 5
R1 6 6
9 volts + 1KΩ 7 7
1KΩ 8 8

100KΩ
D1 C1 1
9 9

68nf
1N4001 100uf U1c U1d U1e U1f
CD4049 CD4049 CD4049 CD4049
5 7 3 10 10
11
8 11 11
VR1 12 12

CD4049
B1M in 13

UBE
R5 13
(Gain) 1MΩ
14 14
R4 15 15
100KΩ C3 C5
51pF 100pF out 16 16
17 17
R2 C2 C4 C6
Input 100KΩ VR2 18 18
68nf U1a 33nf U1b 10uf
A10K
CD4049 CD4049
(Volume) 19 19
14 15 9 10 Output 20 20

51pf
R3
1MΩ 21 21
22 22
23 23

33nf
Note: D1 and C1 are omitted from the breadboard 24 24
layout because they are filtering components for noisy
power supplies. You can add them on, but they don’t 25 25
really do anything for a battery powered circuit. 26 26
B1M

100pf
Gain

1MΩ
27 27
Mods!
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Want to build the circuit to Craig Anderton's original Tube Sound Fuzz

10uf
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specifications? Replace C2 with a 100nf part, C3 with a 10pf part, C4 with a 47nf
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part, and C5 with a 10pf part. See if you can hear the difference. I couldn't. + - a b c d e f g h i j + -
Voltage Sag! Audio circuits based on this chip can get squishy and compressed A10K
when you lower the voltage. Try turning down the voltage a bit on the i/o breakout Volume
box to experiment. revision: 1.0 ● 28 may 2008 ● © 2008 beavis audio research
beavis board project