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 more than a few years ago. Franciso Pena, of Tonepad.com came up with a new and improved version that used 13600 in place of the 3080s. I built the first version of this. It was the most successful of the bunch. It worked pretty well but had two problems that I couldn’t seem to solve. With mine you could hear a ticking from the sample rate oscillator and the sweep switch refused to work in one direction.

Anyway, I found a sheet of PnP that I had printed sometime ago of Francisco’s second version of the FSH-1. I thought what the heck, might as well give it another try.

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 decent power supply. I have a single 9v wall wart from RS. Which works fine but has a terrible ripple.
I do admit I also throw away a lot of batteries. It would be nice to not be producing the extra waste.
It would also be nice to not have to buy batteries. 9V batteries are fairly expensive. I look around and can find them for about a buck. Though, a few weeks ago I bought two at this dollar store on Divisadero St. and they were both dead when I opened the package!
What do people expect when they buy an effect? Do you expect it to use batteries and a power supply? How do people feel about effects that don’t have the battery option?

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

Here’s the current projects. Two Echo Base and two Casualty 4 Phaser shifters.

I found these old school layouts by Andy. These look like fun to build the layouts just scream mojo. I think I will have to etch a few of these up and build them with carbon comp resistors and ceramic caps!

Fuzz Face Old School Layout

Andy aka “Dragonfly” posted like mad on the DIYStompbox forum for several years and then mysteriously disappeared. He was prolific. Check out his gallery. Lots of great info.

Stebby Fuzz Old School Layout

Orpheum Fuzz

Electra

Looks like one of my Ugly Face’s made it into the “Art of the Stompbox” exhibit at the Museum of Making Music in San Diego.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumofmakingmusic/page3/
http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=41

Wow, you must take a look at this site. These are the most amazing applets.

http://www.falstad.com/circuit/e-index.html

Bay Area DIYer’s should make it to the DIY Swap meet on Feb 21 at 924 Gilman St in Berkley CA.

For more info:

http://www.euthymia.org/

The first three were a great time lot’s people with lot’s of stuff. Anyone from the should meet up with me. I’ll try and wear my DIY Stompboxes t-shirt.

Assume there’s your favorite booster at the input, what is D2 doing? This is the most common clipping arrangement that I have seen. It seems that D2 does nothing.
If the boost at the input is running off 9V then the you should have a single that is centered on 4.5V going past the two diodes. D1 clips the signal when it is above 0.7V. D2 on the other hand should not allow a signal to pass until it gets above the reverse bias voltage.

Feel free to let me know what I missing if anyone has some insight into this.

One of the Ugly Face’s that I built got a mention in the Fretboard Journal. No picture though. Which is too bad. They took a picture of a bunch of other more common name brand things. Really Tim Escobedo should have gotten a mention. The people writing these articles need to educate themselves on the history and lineage of the current era of Stompboxes.