Super-Freq

Month: March 2010

  • Ugly Face

    Here’s a picture of an Ugly Face I made recently. For the graphics on this I used PnP. Not sure how this is going to work out. This is second effect I did with this method. This one came out better than the fist. ‘

  • Shocktave first impression

    This worked right after I found a small solder bridge grounding the input cap. The PCB layout I posted has some very small traces that are very close to the ground plane. I thought this was going to be a nightmare to solder. It was actually not too hard. I found careful application of small…

  • Shocktave PCB

    I have been thinking about making Joe Davidson’s Shocktave for many years now. I have yet to build it, the PCB in this post is unverified so far. I’m finally getting around to it. I had built a BSIAB II while back that had all of the transistors in a row. This made for a…

  • Clipping diodes

    This is the classic route to distortion. It seems to be included in many designs. Clipping diodes to ground have many different configurations and choices of diodes. Here’s a great thread talking about clipping diodes to ground. http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=82764.0

  • Casualty 4 Phaser MKII

    Just tested this one again. My mistake the shape pot is working. It seems to me that the Width pot seems to square off the LFO wave form as it is turned up. With Width all the way up the LFO seems to produce more of a square wave.

  • Casualty 4 Phaser working

    Here’s an image of the Casualty 4 Phaser. Wired everything up. After figuring out that I had forgotten to connect the ground wire from the jacks to the board everything seems to be working. Initial observations. The Shape pot seems to do nothing. The Width pot seems shape the soft triangle into a trapezoidial square…

  • FM Modulator

    Here’s another interesting snippet from the Stompbox Cookbook. I was not able to get this to work. Who knows what went on in the mind of Mr. Boscorelli? Looks like the guitar signal is meant to modulate the frequency of the 7555 via pin 5. The 7555 then drives the 567, a phase lock loop,…

  • FSH-1 PCB

    This will be the fourth time I try to build one of these. I made a PCB for the original using the layout from GGG. I never finished this. Then I built and finished a second using the layout from UStomp.com. I couldn’t get this to work. I forget what the problems were, it was…

  • Batteries or no batteries?

    I’ve run into a few project lately, Casualty 4 and Sunking, that fit in a B sized box, but leave no room for a battery. This has me rethinking the battery as a power source. To be honest I use batteries almost exclusively. I rarely use a power supply. The reason, I don’t own a…

  • Sunking

    Not sure if this is Sunking or Sun King. Either way it’s clone of the Klon Centaur. That apparently fits into a B sized box. Hats off to MadBean for making that happen. I way have to give this one a try. Here’s a link: http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=6392&start=40

  • Omnidrive

    Here’s a project that I built up some years ago. This never found it’s way into a box. I dug it out and decided to try and box it up. Difficult with the number of switches and knobs. I think I have a viable plan to shoehorn it into a BB sized. box. This is…

  • Saffron Squeeze

    Here’s a PCB ready for boxing. This is basically a well tuned Ross clone. The original was made by Way Huge. This, Saffross, is clone made from a layout by MarkM over at DIYStompboxes.