fontoponto
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The chalumeau of the guitar world.
I made an attempt to make the pedal switchable without the fuzz. I was only partially successful. I may have to solder a pull-down resistor to the input, I think I read about it somewhere.
Pin 1 and 8 of LM386 have been bent up/broken off and are connected via a switch. When the fuzz is on it’s adjustable by potentiometer "Gain" between Pin 1 and 8.
The supplied LED that was supplied in my kit was somehow not bright enough to make the effect really wobbly. I then installed sockets and after some tinkering I finally ended up with an LCR0203 optocoupler.
"Octobeer" is a reference to the Oktoberfest after I went there two weeks ago with my daughter. It was a visit without a single beer and the craving for one as well as the drunken sound of the pedal made me come up with this beautiful name.
Unfortunately, I only realized at the end that I didn’t delete the drill marking on the illuminated beer mug.... The LED needs to be attached more professionally somehow.
And I still want to order yellow knobs.
Nice pedal. At that price you get a simple fuzz with delay and the possibility of sounding drunk.
I made an attempt to make the pedal switchable without the fuzz. I was only partially successful. I may have to solder a pull-down resistor to the input, I think I read about it somewhere.
Pin 1 and 8 of LM386 have been bent up/broken off and are connected via a switch. When the fuzz is on it’s adjustable by potentiometer "Gain" between Pin 1 and 8.
The supplied LED that was supplied in my kit was somehow not bright enough to make the effect really wobbly. I then installed sockets and after some tinkering I finally ended up with an LCR0203 optocoupler.
"Octobeer" is a reference to the Oktoberfest after I went there two weeks ago with my daughter. It was a visit without a single beer and the craving for one as well as the drunken sound of the pedal made me come up with this beautiful name.
Unfortunately, I only realized at the end that I didn’t delete the drill marking on the illuminated beer mug.... The LED needs to be attached more professionally somehow.
And I still want to order yellow knobs.
Nice pedal. At that price you get a simple fuzz with delay and the possibility of sounding drunk.
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