Category Projects

Projects that I have built

Tim Escobedo PWM PCB build

The PWM b Tim Escobedo shapes your guitar signal into a variable duty square wave. This is staple of synthesizers. Known as pulse width modulation or PWM. The sound is supper compressed fuzz. This circuit is a simple build. Tim…

New PCBs

I had a few new PCB projects manufactured. Here are three projects I had been working on. These were drafted up in Eagle. I had these made at PCBWay.com.the cost was about $45 for 30 boards. I order 10 of…

22/7 4069

RunOffGroove 22/7 4069

First build of 2022! This is a 4069 version of RunOffGroove’s 22 The original uses the 4049 hex inverter. This the same circuit using the 4069. Both chips contain 6 inverters but the they differ in format and layout. The…

UBE Screamer 4069

UBE Screamer 4069

This is a version of the UBE Screamer using the 4069 in place of the 4049. Essentially these chips are the same. They both contain 6 inverters. The 4049 is a 16 pin DIP while the 4069 is a 14…

22/7 4069

22/7 4069 PCB

Here is a version of RunOffGrooves 22/7 using the 4069. The original circuit uses the 4049 Hex inverter. The 4049 is a 16 pin dip with 6 inverters. Here is the 4049UBE data sheet. You can see it has 16…

Another fail!

UBE Screamer 2

Here is a UBE Screamer with blend knob. I left a resistor out of the mixer and mixed up the Blend and Gain labels, double fail! As long as I’m going to screw things up I like to go all…

UBE Screamer v2

UBE Screamer 2 PCB

I made an update to the RunOffGroove UBE Screamer from a suggestion in their notes. This version adds a mix control the blends some of the original signal with the distorted signal. The original uses Rx to set a fixed…

UBE Screamer 1.1.1 build

UBE Screamer build

Built and tested the new version of the UBE Screamer PCB. Everything is working! Sounds great. This is a good alternative to the standard TS-808 and other overdrives if you’re looking for something a little different. Does great low gain…

UBE Screamer 1.1.1

UBE Screamer PCB

This is an update of the UBE Screamer board. Same circuit just revised. I had these boards fabricated at PCBWay.com. The quality is very great! The UBE Screamer is a very interesting take on the Ibanez Tube Screamer by RunOffGroove.com.…

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Super Frequency PCB

I entered my PCB design in the PCBWay design contest vote for me! This is a PCB for Tim Escobedo’s Ugly Face. Anyone that hasn’t built one of these you should try it. You won’t play it on every…

Ugly Face PCB on PCBWay

Super Frequency PCB

I designed this PCB for Tim Escobedo’s Ugly Face and had it manufactured at PCBWay. I used Eagle PCB to design the board. The process was not hard with a little research. I started by finding the PCBWay Eagle DRU…