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Milling some enclosures
Made a few enclosure for some new projects today.
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Scuzz Box
This is a a second build of Distort-O-Matic XI from Stompboxology. Read more about the first version of the project here and here, and a demo. The first version of the PCB had a couple mistakes which I fixed with this board. I designed the board to fit a 1590B enclosure. In the first build…
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Go Mixer
I just got this Roland Go Mixer Pro. It’s a small (about the size of your hand) mixer that connects to several instruments and microphones to your phone. I got mine used on Reverb.com for $125. I like buying used gear. It’s usually cheaper and saves waste. What’s it good for? Recording with your phone,…
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Doboz VCO340 progress
Made a little progress on the Doboz VCO340 today. Check out my previous post for more info about the VCO340. Tl;dr it’s an 8hp VCO based on the CEM 3340. i’m working on two at the moment.
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Uber Drive #2
Second build of the “Uber Drive”. This is clone of Paul Cochran’s Timmy overdrive. Maybe this needs a better name? I manufactured these boards over at PCBWay.com. Their prototyping service gives you 10 boards for $5. Which is a great deal. It also left me with a few boards to spare so I thought I…
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Making progress
Soldered up a few boards the other day. Here are four of the new boards, a Silicon Tone Bender, and another Flatline compressor.
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New PCB Day
Just received some new PCBs. I ordered these from PCBWay.com. The quality was excellent. The cost is very reasonable These were about $1 per board with shipping. Ganging orders together saves on shipping! A few couple updates and a couple new things this time. Small Time is a PT2399 based delays with trails by the…
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Deformis update
I worked on Deformis, see my earlier post for details and schematic. In a nutshell Deformis is my version of Tim Escobedo’s Ugly Face in a wah shell with the pedal controlling the frequency sweep. In the first pass I got everything working but, it wasn’t working well. The biggest problem was the pedal action…
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Doboz VCO340 knobs
While I wait on parts to build this I experimented with some knobs to get an idea of what the finished device will look like. My parts are back ordered until November. The Doboz VCO340 is a an 8hp VCO built around the CEM3340 chip. My plan is to build a pair of these for…
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Ugly Face Circles
I made a few small updates to Ugly Face PCB. I needed to do a build to make sure that everything is working as it should. I ordered these boards from PCBWay.com. The service is a very reasonably priced which makes them great for prototyping. I soldered up the board. This time I used a…
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Summon Fuzz a bigger muff
This is Mic Tester’s 21st Century Big Muff. Its the standard big at it’s heart but updated. It uses an op-amp for the input and output stages, a James tone stack, and adds an interesting gain control to the clipping stages along with a diode lift switch for the first stage. I’m a Big Muff…
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Doboz VCO340
The Doboz VCO340 is a DIY VCO built around the CEM3340. This is a VCO on a chip that was used in many famous synthesizers back in the 80s. Here’s what the Electric Druid has to say: The 3340 is the oscillator chip found in many of the famous polysynths of the analog era; the…