Mother Fuzz

This is Mic Testers Big Muff Plus. It’s a Big Muff with a JFET input and output stage, and a James control in place of the BMP tone control. The JFET input creates a higher input impedance the on the…

My battery powered Eurorack

I wrote previously about being inspired by people using battery powered erorack systems to make electronic music in nature. I tested it out at the Eurorack SF cafe jam meetup. It worked great! If you’re in the bay area join…

Arduino FM Synth

I have wanted to get into building things with Arduino for a while. I ran into a project on Instructables.com that looked easy, I thought I’d jump in and give it a try! The project creates a simple synth/sound generator…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…