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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…
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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 in the park was enticing. Let try and get you in the mood with some…
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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 hate to let things go to waste. It might be good to have a DS-1…
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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. That said the sound is unique! This circuit cam from Tim Escobedo’s Circuit Snippet website,…
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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 diode clipper and octave fuzz with with a two band active tone control 30db of…
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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 new.
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Distort-o-Matic XI demo
This is an audio demo of the Distort-o-matic XI from Stompboxology. Check out my build page for a schematic and images of the finished project.
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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. The cost is only $5 for 10 boards, so it’s perfect for prototyping. The first…