Category: Electronic
Colorsound Tremolo Clone
Today I’m presenting my Colorsound Tremolo. I’ve been working on it for a while. When I built it on a stripboard, I could hear a clicking noise. That’s why I rebuilt it again with an etched circuit board. Now it is a bit quiet when I switch it on, but there is no more background…
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Mythos Pedals – Golden Fleece – Clone
I found the Fuzz Golden Fleece from Mythos Pedals on the website https://dirtboxlayouts.blogspot.com/2023/03/mythos-pedals-golden-fleece.html. As I didn’t yet have a distortion in a 1590A cabinet, I set it up. There is not much space in the small housing, but everything can be easily accommodated: I drilled using the following template, at least roughly: And this…
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Big Muff π – Triangle
Our neighbor’s son ordered a Big Muff π from me. It turned out to be the Big Muff π – Triangle. Mounted on a professionally manufactured circuit board and neatly represented, the whole thing looks quite good.
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Big Muff PI – Creamy Dreamer
Next, I created a Big Muff PI – Creamy Dreamer. This is a Sovtek Green Russian circuit with an additional “Creamy Dreamer” mod. The circuit is set up with a finished circuit board:
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Emerson Custom Guitars – Em-Drive Clone
I gave the son of our neighbour some of my floor pedals to test and he really wanted to have another overdrive to compare. I don’t think you can really make a comparison. But so be it. So I quickly made an Em-Drive. The circuit is really quite simple: The whole thing fits wonderfully into…
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Proco – RAT – Clone
Next, I took the original RAT from ProCo. I used the circuit from TonePad: tonepad_rat.pdf. I replaced the specified JFET transistor 2N5458 with a 2N5457, as the 2N5458 I had from China was probably a fake. Fortunately I got my money back. I now understand why ProCon called this effect pedal Rat. I then…
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MXR Distortion + Clone
I’m in the process of trying out some classic distortions and just building them myself. That’s what I did with the MXR Distortion +. The board is quite small and fits very well in the 1590B housing. I got the design from http://tonepad.com/project.asp?id=2 and have used “Mas Distortion, Rev.4.Dec.8.2005”.
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GreerAmps – Ghetto Stomp – Clone
I gave a friend a self-made Nano Big Muff Pi for his 50th birthday. Unfortunately, he only enjoyed it for one day. When the battery ran out, he connected a power supply with the wrong polarity. So I thought I’d better make him a distortion unit that was a bit simpler. In my search I…
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MeeBlip Anode Synthesizer
Some times before I found on http://irieelectronics.de/diy-meeblip-anode/ and http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Mini-Bass-Synth-Meeblip-Anode/ the clone of the Arduino Bass Synthesizer, MeeBlip Anode. It is open source and easy to build. The cost will be about € 40,- if you order the most parts at chinese suppliers via eBay inclusive the enclosure and all accessories. All parts are are located…
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String Synthesizer
This time I found something, that I always want to create: A string synthesizer. On the page https://janostman.wordpress.com/how-to-build-your-very-own-string-synth/ and http://bloghoskins.blogspot.com/2016/11/diy-arduino-string-synth.html is such a synthesizer described. It works on the basis of an Arduino. I do it without a keyboard, but with MIDI. It is with an original Arduino Nano as proposed. The control of Modulation,…
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