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Making new stuff
Worked on some new stuff today. I bought some rubber stamps and Stazon ink to decorate boxes. The lotus flowers will be MosFET type boosters. The car crashes will be Fuzz Faces. Also worked on an Echobase using a PCB from MusicPCB.com. After soldering things up everything worked first try. This project lists a 50k…
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Tone Bender Mk I
A friend recommend building the Tone Bender Mk I. I hadn’t tried this before. So I thought I’d give it a go. It also helped that I had heard the one Joe built over a ToneFiend. Sounds pretty good. Sort of a cross between the Fuzz Face and the Tone Bender Mk II. Really the…
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Some Fuzz Faces
Finally getting back to building some Fuzz Face’s I started a while back. Here’s a picture, you can see the sockets for the transistors, two sets of three in a row, in the center. The input socket is two small socket pins on the right center, and the output cap is on the bottom center.
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Guitar Progress
Here’s a few pictures of progress on my guitar. I’ve cut and routed the body to shape. The neck fits pretty good. Radius on the corners on the neck are something smaller than 1/2″, the size of the router bit. I think I’ll round these off so the neck fits snug against the heel of…
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DIY Electronics and Musicians Swap 2013
Had a great time at DIY swap this year. The turn out was small. I managed to sell about 7 boxes. The Fuzz Faces were popular and went fast, they sounded great which may have helped. Also sold a tone Bender and a few other things. My wife made me the most awesome bento box…
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Guitar Build
For some reason I thought it would be fun to build a guitar, from scratch. And, after a lot of self reflection and deep introspection, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is! Of course I have had to rationalize away all of the time and expense, but that’s another conversation. Here’s a few pictures.…
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CGS 29 Wave Multiplier Panel
Some years ago I bought some PCB for various synthesizer modules. I thought I would design some panels and build a few new modules. This is a first draft of a panel for Ken Stone’s Wave Multiplier CGS29. I have the first version. http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgs29_wave_multiplier_v1.html
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Millenium Bypass – Working!
Millenium problesm all solved with the help of R.G. Who kindly pointed out that I probably didn’t have a path to ground on the out put of the effect. Which was exactly right. After having the Millennium work so well on the SHO, I decided to add one to a Fuzz Face. This Fuzz Face…
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Dual Booster now with LEDs!
This has two booster in series in side. First is a NPN Range Master followed by a Sparkle Boost. The idea was Joe Gore’s. The two booster work well together. They each have their own flavor, and together get a good over driven sound. The Range Master side sports a variable input cap. So this…
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Millenium Bypass, not so fast
I built this last week, see the previous post. Everything seemed fine on the bench. Today I gave it a test with the band. Seems like it is not working quite right. The LED lights when the effect is on. But, when the effect is off the light slowly turns on over a few minutes.…
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Millenium Bypass
This is one of those things that has been around for a long time. Back in the olden days when the 3PDT switch was hard to get and cost as much as all of the other parts that went into a box. There was a need for a status LED that could be operated from…
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Mold Spore Psycho-Scumatic Wah and Ring Modulator
Sounds like something from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Though it might have appeared in a Warner Bros. production it could have easily added to a sound track. Looks like it should be on the floor of your custom van, the one with custom paint and interior. This is the Snarling Dogs Mold Spore Psycho-Scumatic wah. We’ll…