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Old School Layouts

I found these old school layouts by Andy. These look like fun to build the layouts just scream mojo. I think I will have to etch a few of these up and build them with carbon comp resistors and ceramic…

Art of the Stompbox

Looks like one of my Ugly Face’s made it into the “Art of the Stompbox” exhibit at the Museum of Making Music in San Diego. http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=41

DIY Electronics Swap Meet 2010

Bay Area DIYer’s should make it to the DIY Swap meet on Feb 21 at 924 Gilman St in Berkley CA. For more info: The first three were a great time lot’s people with lot’s of stuff. Anyone from…

What am I missing?

Assume there’s your favorite booster at the input, what is D2 doing? This is the most common clipping arrangement that I have seen. It seems that D2 does nothing. If the boost at the input is running off 9V then…

Fretboard Journal

One of the Ugly Face’s that I built got a mention in the Fretboard Journal. No picture though. Which is too bad. They took a picture of a bunch of other more common name brand things. Really Tim Escobedo should…

Ring Mod

Here’s an idea for a ring modulator. I used a 3080 for the balanced modulator from the Ring-Modu-Matic. I used an envelope, from the Meatball,  to control the carrier frequency. This is untested. The controlling the FET to turn on…

Two Screamer

I had been wanting to build Craig Anderton’s graphic fuzz. But I had never gotten around to it. Though I did find an old 10 band EQ on the street that I thought would make a home for that project. …

The Next board?

I’m down to about 30 of the original PCBs. I’m thinking about doing another run if there’s interest. I’m also thinking about creating another board. Same layout as the first but it would include traces for an effect with the…