Lo-fi Overdrive project

[Hides-His-Eyes]

My goal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbQvJhW_-U&feature=player_embedded#at=49

Obviously there's no way to make a standard guitar sound like a semihollow, but the compressed, low bandwidth overdrive sound there is making me hungry.

Where would you guys start? Limiter in parallel with an overdrive? Cranked FET/muamp? How would you go about the tone stack; should I start with a 'speaker sim' design and push it to less sensible extremes

First person to suggest "buy a low wattage 1*8 amp and crank it" is buying the next round, by the way.

[vendettav]

idk but Escopedo sir has a lofi schematic

http://www.jiggawoo.eclipse.co.uk/guitarhq/Circuitsnippets/snippets.html

havent tried it tho

it's somewhere in there just scroll down till you find Lofo mofo or something with lo fi

[John Lyons]

I don't think "lo fi" is the right term. Yes, it's a bit trashy but lo fi is generally
a hi pass telephone sound like term in the effects I've seen with that adjective.

The sound might just be a distorted amp in that video.
I would try a fuzz circuit turned down (lower fuzz amount) or something like the first
stage of the fuzzrite/orpheum/shin Ei FY-2 with a larger couping cap at the output.
Basically just a single transistor slammed. There isn't much sustain/fuzz in the clip.
Hitting the amp with a mild fuzz cranked my just do it. You can add a second transistr
and back off on the gain of Q2. If you need more fuzz you can either add a transistor
or add clipping diodes and some resistance to ground in series with the diodes to taste.
This will not full clip them but give you some grit and sustain.