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Deformis
Deformis is my take on Tim Escobedo’s Ugly Face. I put this in a wah shell with the pedal controlling the frequency. The envelope was removed, and I’ve added a mix control. Design Here’s a schematic I came up with With some help from the friendly people over at DIYStompboxes.com. I wanted to add a…
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Building wah enclosures
I wrote about buying some bare wah shells earlier here. I started assembling them for a project. Here are some notes for anyone else trying these. If you’re going to paint or do any type of finishing work, you should do that before going through all of the assembly process. It would be difficult to…
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Titan Boost 2
Here’s another Titan Boost. This is a John Hollis project, you can read more about it here. In a nutshell, it’s a clean boost with an output signal up to 30v peak to peak! That’s a big boost! The circuit is simple, easy to build, and runs on 9 volts without a charge pump. It works by…
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Elktronics Fuzz Build
This PCB came from Elktronics. It’s fuzz similar to the fuzz face and Tonebender built around the CA3046/3086 transistor array. Here’s a demo: The board came with all of the surface mount parts in place. I needed to add the two box caps, the two glass diodes, and the CA3046. I put a socket in…
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CB3 on Bandcamp
Charlottas Burning Trio CB3 are were a Swedish jazz trio, now they putting out psychedelic space rock. Here’s how they describe themselves: Descending from a cosmic universe, experimental psych-rockers CB3 – Charlottas Burning Trio are back with a new space adventure. In “Exploration” new dimensions are discovered with their unique sound of heavy rock, cosmic…
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Elktronics Fuzz
Here is an interesting fuzz built around the CA3046/3086 transistor array. Looks like a Fuzz Face/Tone Bender built around the low gain transistors in the 3046/3086. This is a pedal from Elktronics. Looks like they sold out of their first run of these. Here’s a demo video: Sounds pretty good! It’s got some great fuzz…
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Harmonic Energizer Demo
A short demo of the Systech Harmonic Energizer. Read more about the Harmonic Energizer here. This is a demo of version 2 that has been modded with added clipping diodes.
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Eternal Elysium on Bandcamp
I like good riff rock. Eternal Elysium are great riff rockers from Japan. I have this album on iTunes but I bought it also on Bandcamp.com because I prefer to listen to music on Bandcamp and don’t like switching between apps. Hopefully Bandcamp will improve their playlist/queue feature. This album has a great heavy psychedelic…
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Beginner Projects!
Someone asked me about how to get started making guitar pedals. You need beginner projects! here are a few satisfying projects. They sound good and are easy build. These are also easy to debug if something goes wrong! You have to start developing your debugging skills early! These projects are all built using perf/pad-per-hole board…
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Harmonic Energizer #2
My second build of the Harmonic Energizer. If you haven’t read my first post read about that build here. This second build tries out a couple more mods. Discussing this circuit over at DIYStompboxes.com Mark Hammer suggested adding some clipping diodes to this circuit. Since I had some boards I thought I’d try this out. The idea is…
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Harmonic Energizer
Here is a clone of the Systech Harmonic Energizer. This is a parametric EQ. It’s like a single-band equalizer with a control to set the width of the frequency band that it affects. It also has a control to sweep the frequency similar to a wah pedal. The Harmonic Energizer has been described as the…
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Bandcamp is awesome!
Can you tell? I really like Bandcamp.com. It has to be my favorite place to get music and stream music. The selection of music is pretty good and most of it is new music. You can’t get your classic rock on Bandcamp.com but, I think this is a feature not a bug! It forces you…