Bee Baa
This is a Roland Bee Baa Fuzz. It’s sort of a booster followed by a two transistor silicon fuzz. The sounds is pretty heavy and doom like. Interpret that how you will. The original came in a larger case with…
Webcor amp
I traded a Fuzz Factory Clone for what looks like an old PA that’s been modified to work as a guitar amp. The Webcor has two speaker connected with what looks like a giant oil and paper capacitor. One speaker…
Stompbox Cookbook PCB layouts are BACKWARDS!
I just started building up a project and I realized the PCB layout I printed from the Stompbox Cookbook is backwards! Beware if you plan to build a project from any of these layouts. I think I can save my…
Distort-o-Matic VI
I’ve been fascinated by the Stompboxology and Stompbox Cookbook projects for a long time. I’ve only built a few and many of the ideas are hit and miss. The concepts presented are compelling none the less. The Distort-o-matic VI for…
Compressor thing
Here’s a my take on the LED compressor thing. Really this is just a “mash up” of mictester’s “Really Cheap Compressor and the John Hollis Flatline compressor. You could look at this as the Flatline with a simplified LED driver.…
Tremolo-matic X redux
After playing around with this for a while I find reducing the gain on the input stage seems to get rid of the harsh noise from a hot input. Not sure if this will work for every circumstance, but it…
Ugly Face
Here’s a picture of an Ugly Face I made recently. For the graphics on this I used PnP. Not sure how this is going to work out. This is second effect I did with this method. This one came out…
Shocktave first impression
This worked right after I found a small solder bridge grounding the input cap. The PCB layout I posted has some very small traces that are very close to the ground plane. I thought this was going to be a…
Shocktave PCB
I have been thinking about making Joe Davidson’s Shocktave for many years now. I have yet to build it, the PCB in this post is unverified so far. I’m finally getting around to it. I had built a BSIAB II…
Clipping diodes
This is the classic route to distortion. It seems to be included in many designs. Clipping diodes to ground have many different configurations and choices of diodes. Here’s a great thread talking about clipping diodes to ground.
Casualty 4 Phaser MKII
Just tested this one again. My mistake the shape pot is working. It seems to me that the Width pot seems to square off the LFO wave form as it is turned up. With Width all the way up the…
Casualty 4 Phaser working
Here’s an image of the Casualty 4 Phaser. Wired everything up. After figuring out that I had forgotten to connect the ground wire from the jacks to the board everything seems to be working. Initial observations. The Shape pot seems…