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…

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…

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…

Battery powered eurorack

I had seen a lot of really cool eurorack in nature posts. Not sure if these were done live in the moment or put together in post production. The idea of twiddling knobs and making music at the beach or…

DS-1 Robert Keeley mods

I rehoused a few new circuits into some Boss enclosures last year. Boss Buzzbender Boss DRV Boss Muff I was left with some DS-1 PCBs. I have been rehousing these into 125B enclosures! It might seem a little crazy butI…

PWM Build

I built another PWM. This is a a crazy noise maker. Almost more of a synth than guitar pedal. It has a great distortion sound but the output is extremely compressed, which makes it hard to use a band situation.…

Scuzz Box v1.1

This is a second version of the Distort-O-Matic XI from stompboxology. You can read about the first versions here, and here. Distort-o-matic XI is described as a distortion box with an aggressive tone control. In more concrete terms it’s a…

New PCBs

I ordered some new PCBs. The boards from PCBWay.com are very reasonable but shipping can be costly, ganging orders together keeps the costs down. Whats was in this order? There were 8 different boards. Some were updates and other were…

Flatline v1.1

The first version of my Flatline PCB worked well but had a couple of small problems. Check out my original post for more information about the Flatline Compressor.  I fixed the issues with the original PCB, and had some boards made through PCBWay.com.…

Tremolo-Matic X build 3

This is a new revision of the Tremolo-Matic X from Stompboxology. You can read more about it here. In a nutshell, this tremolo splits the input signal into high pass and low pass filters and pans between the two. The sound…

The Sultan Fuzz

This is my entry in the End of Days Fuzz Challenge 2022. Based on the Fuzz Face with an added two band tone control similar to the tone controls on Orange and Ampeg amplifiers. I wrote about this circuit in…