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    Save my dumb guitar headstock?

    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...
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    Overloading IC op-amps for distortion

    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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    Electro-Harmonix Talking Pedal (or any formant wah)

    I could only find a partial circuit on DIYstompboxes: ..but there's a few other projects that seem similar: Anderton's AntiWah It's a bummer that all the circuits I find only use two filters. From what I've read, you get a better vocal sound with three filters. I've been trying to find a...
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    transformers?

    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...
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    Using fake germaniums?

    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...
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    Big Muff Pi permanent tone bypass

    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?
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    Dirty Haggard Audio - Torsion Fuzz

    Instantly in love with this thing:
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    EQ order switch: foot or toggle?

    I'm building a pedal with a Box and All EQ and Two Sticks of Derm fuzz in the same case. I'm putting in an order switch, and I'm curious if you had that pedal, would you want a footswitch to switch it on the fly, or is that pointless and you'd just use a toggle switch? (Note: The Box and All...
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    Dual pot with different values?

    I have a project where I'd like to use a dual pot to control two different circuits, but one uses a A100K and the other uses a B1M. Can I, uh, take two apart and fit them together? Or is there another solution?
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    Roland Double Beat Fuzz Wah

    We have wahs, we have 4000 fuzzes, it's a tragedy that we don't have a fuzz wah! (yeah yeah, we have the Zapper, but that uses an external expression pedal, so uncool.)
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    Keeley Sfocato Fuzz Wah

    I know we already have the Zapper, but this might be a neat alternative for folks who want a simpler cocked-wah fuzz. I couldn't find schematics, but the AMZFX guy has schematics for a similar idea: https://www.muzique.com/schem/fwf.htm
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    Maleficent Box and All?

    Could one replace the mid control in the Box and All with a Maleficent Mids? (or better yet the Airis Effects Target Mids.) The world needs an EQ version of the Fuzz Factory, no?
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    Electro-Harmonix Tube Zipper in MOSFET?

    I listened to a couple videos and this out-of-production EHX pedal seemed kinda rad. The basic settings are like an envelope filter, but it can get really crazy too. (Though I'd rather see a non-tube version.) Schematic PDF attatched.
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    Jack Orman's Pickup Simulator / Anti-Buffer...

    Anyone ever build/use one of these circuits? http://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm I use a lot of different fuzzes in different configurations with a pedal switcher/looper (which has a built-in buffer) and I've been thinking about building a few of these to go in front of fuzzes. I wonder if...
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    Passive splitter issues

    I feel like I should know this, but... Playing with parallel distortion units (and I don't have a buffered splitter), so I ran the guitar pedal a mono Y-cord into an Arkaim Fuzz and a Behringer HM-2 clone. I was expecting tone-suck and/or uneven volume problems, but I was surprised to find that...
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    Tone stacks before versus after distortion/overdrive/fuzz circuits

    Hey, wondering if any of the experts could articulate common things to expect when shaping tone before the dirt part of a circuit. I get that a lot of circuits cut bass before the dirt circuit, but are there common effects one gets when you don't do that? (as opposed to rolling off bass after...
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    Filtering out lower strings...

    (Yet another) weird question... So... working with a pickup guy, I did a weird thing with my baritone guitar where I had him respin a humbucker so one tiny coil outputs two strings separately so I can run it to a pitchshifter and output that to a bass amp. I have a stereo jack in my guitar...
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    Fuzz face modifications

    I know some folks have issues with Josh Scott, but this video was cool and informative:
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    Buffered vs. Passive Splitter?

    Hey all, I'm building a pedal board and I need to split my guitar signal (twice!) I think the best place to do the first split is immediately after the guitar (or at least after the tuner.) One of the signals will immediately go to a fuzz most of the time, and I hear many fuzzes don't like...
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