The Next Step...

[BuddytheReow]

Just throwing this out there. Do we want to take a fuzz circuit and tweak it to our liking or put a few circuit blocks together and tweak em individually (booster stage into clipping stage into eq stage and maybe a buffer)?

 

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Are we doing bare (no copper), strip copper, pad-per-hole, etc? Or is it builder’s choice?

 

[fig]

Just throwing this out there. Do we want to take a fuzz circuit and tweak it to our liking or put a few circuit blocks together and tweak em individually (booster stage into clipping stage into eq stage and maybe a buffer)?

I’ll do the power stage.

 

[BuddytheReow]

Are we doing bare (no copper), strip copper, pad-per-hole, etc? Or is it builder’s choice?

I'm personally a fan of strip copper. Got about a dozen sheets sitting in a drawer for the next few dozen builds

 

[Coda]

Just throwing this out there. Do we want to take a fuzz circuit and tweak it to our liking or put a few circuit blocks together and tweak em individually (booster stage into clipping stage into eq stage and maybe a buffer)?

This is a good idea. It’s a better deal-type of idea…as some would get more knowledge than just how to diy.

Are we doing bare (no copper), strip copper, pad-per-hole, etc? Or is it builder’s choice?

Good point. I think thar bridge is well off in the distance, though. Let’s add point-to-point to that list, just to intimidate the fence-sitters…

 

[Big Monk]

I have a spare BB.

I'll throw one of these on after I clean my bench up tonight.

 

[fig]

This is a good idea. It’s a better deal-type of idea…as some would get more knowledge than just how to diy.


Good point. I think thar bridge is well off in the distance, though. Let’s add point-to-point to that list, just to intimidate the fence-sitters…

Sorry, had my long-range scanner active.

 

[Coda]

Sorry, had my long-range scanner active.

The long-range report isn’t needed until right before the sports highlights.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Y'all gonna have to post demos of your individual builds tho or else what's the point

 

[zgrav]

for suggesting projects, I think the Interfax Harmonic Percolator has a relatively low parts count and lots of room for interesting variations (like the Catalinbread Karma Suture, e.g.).

 

[Coda]

for suggesting projects, I think the Interfax Harmonic Percolator has a relatively low parts count and lots of room for interesting variations (like the Catalinbread Karma Suture, e.g.).

Very good suggestion. There is also a lot of room in that one to play around with different transistors…

 

[Dan M]

This is how I would break it down:
1. What do I want to make?
2. What topology do I want to use?
3. What's the detailed design?

for example:
1. What do I want to make?
A dirt pedal with a weird ass filter hooked to it. Filter before or after the dirt? I don't know, that could be an experiment.

2. What topology do I want to use?
A twin-tee filter and a bazz-fuss (because they are simple, cheap, and low part count)

3. What's the detailed design?
I don't know. I'll do some reading on how the part values impact each of those circuits and fiddle with it (Earthquaker style, because I don't know how to simulate it, what to look for, or what I'm doing in general)

or:
1. A Rat! With an HM-2 style tone stack (like those drunk beaver things)
or:
1. A parallel distortion with a blend knob
or:
1. Hook a green ringer to something (and then add a simple boost, paint it with a Patrine Cross and sell it for $800. . . badda-bing!)
or:
etc, etc

 

[Feral Feline]

This is how I would break it down:
1. What do I want to make?
2. What topology do I want to use?
3. What's the detailed design?

for example:
1. What do I want to make?
A dirt pedal with a weird ass filter hooked to it. Filter before or after the dirt? I don't know, that could be an experiment.

2. What topology do I want to use?
A twin-tee filter and a bazz-fuss (because they are simple, cheap, and low part count)

3. What's the detailed design?
I don't know. I'll do some reading on how the part values impact each of those circuits and fiddle with it (Earthquaker style, because I don't know how to simulate it, what to look for, or what I'm doing in general)

or:
1. A Rat! With an HM-2 style tone stack (like those drunk beaver things)
or:
1. A parallel distortion with a blend knob
or:
1. Hook a green ringer to something (and then add a simple boost, paint it with a Patrine Cross and sell it for $800. . . badda-bing!)
or:
etc, etc

Combo circuit ie ALL of the above... one enclosure, one bypass footswitch.

 

[Barry]

Hey, I've got it, let's mod a Blues Breaker!!

 

[fig]

Hold on…we’re gettin all Lucy during the Christmas play rehearsal. Cmon Barry, let’s go get a tree.

 

[Feral Feline]

A pink tinfoil tree...

Good grief...

 

[BuddytheReow]

A Rat! With an HM-2 style tone stack (like those drunk beaver things)

This is now on my bucket list! Or, at least on my breadboard list, LOL

 

[fig]

…and then Coda said…

 

[Coda]

…and then Coda said…

I’m working on it. I took the weekend off for my birthday…

 

[Harry Klippton]

I’m working on it. I took the weekend off for my birthday…

Happy birthday @Coda