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…
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…
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…
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…
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 This is a pedal from Elktronics. Looks like they sold out of their first…
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.
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…
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…
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…