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Hey all, I found trashed First Act guitar and thought it would be fun to make it into something cool. Here's the current headstock: ...which I think is the ugliest thing ever. I've been playing with recutting it, and my favorite design is this: Question: Would this just rip itself apart...

See, what I come to expect from Chuck when I see a title like "Everything You Wanted to Know About JFETs (but Were Afraid to Ask)" is Chuck to write a very clear and concise explainer written in simple language that my limited intelligence can parse. Not a link to a BOOK fergodssake! What do...

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If you took a Quad-channel op amp IC (like the TLO74) and ran channel one into channel two, channel two into channel three and channel three into channel 4, would you have the world's simplest 4-stage distortion, or would you just have a dead IC?

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This looks fascinating. I totally want to try this.

That demo record was pretty wild:

more than meets th.... sorry... Also sorry for yet another one of my endless questions. I've been working through @Chuck D. Bones's posts, trying to learn the ropes. I think I'm finally making some headway with distortion circuits and EQ circuits. Lately I moved on to wah circuits, which I...

You have just blown my noob mind. 🤯

Before I knew better, I bought a bunch of ✌️"AC128"✌️'s on eBay. I didn't even know what "measuring" meant 😒 but they sounded like shit, mostly just thin and harsh. So they ✌️"work"✌️, but I probably wouldn't build a fuzzface out of them. I mostly just have an obsession with making weird...

I was more thinking PNP NPN can-shaped transistors (which I have an embarrassingly large number of.)

I mean, obviously you want to shift some controls more into the lows and in particular in the low mids. You absolutely want a control on 100hz. Back in my recording engineer days, we called 100hz "mud," you always inevitably wanted to dip a little 100hz for clarity. 5Khz is often associated...

I assume I'm not the only noob with a bag of fake germaniums? I was wondering if something interesting (and probably ugly) could be done by... uh, measuring them and maybe running them in parallel? Maybe something in the spitty Shin-Ei range, or remaking the Reuss Muzzbox or something? ...or...

Thanks :) The Dream Fuzz has a tone bypass too!

There's quite a few percussive and/or spitty fuzzes on here, or bloomy one's that veer heavily into bassy doom territory. From my (limited, nooby) investigation, I'd say the fuzzes that have that soft, thick muff tone are (obviously) the muffs: Muffin Fuzz, Mini-Muffin Fuzz, Dream Fuzz, and...

Thanks! I wondered, but second guessed myself.

Just checking my math here... If I wanted to build a (louder) always-tone-bypassed two-knob big muff, would I just bridge from Q3 past C12, or would I leave C12 in the circuit?

Hmmm... I was thinking the bypass switch would be for both effects at the same time. It might be cool to have a second footswitch to swap out the boost pot with a resistor set to unity gain. I think it'd be fine for the EQ to be on all the time. Yeah, for the EQ switch, I was thinking I...