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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Electro-Harmonix – Nano Big Muff π clone
In two previous posts I have reported that I have built two Big Muff π clones. Now I have built another version, but this time in a 1590B aluminium housing. I ordered a circuit board from JCLPCB for this. I printed the desing it on a transparent film and glued it on. I used the…
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Arduino Mini-Pops
I found on a side Korg Mini-Pops DIY Drum Machine and further on The O2 source code. I thought, I’d like to try that out. I ordered all parts and do it for simplicity flying wire. I made the housing from wood. The front and rear panels are 3 mm birch plywood and the sides…
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MFOS Mini 3 In Mixer and 1W Amplifier
I found a small but pretty mini mixer for synthesitzer at page Music From Outer Space. The vantages are 3 line input, 1 watt output and he needs only a 9 voltage er wird von einer 9Volt battery. All informationen to the project could find at page Mini-Mixer 1W Amp. The author provide a double-sided…
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4017 Baby Sequencer
Today I will present my first project after many years abstinence of DIY. It is the 4017 Baby Sequencer. A simple analog step sequencer with 8 steps. Each step kan be deactivated. It contains a controller for interval, a reset button and a start and stop switch. A 9 V block battery is used for…
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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,…
Read MoreUnimod – A Versatile Sound Effect Generator
I found this project in the US magazine Popular Electronics, February 1981. Here is the link to the document: Unimod-Sound-Effects-Generator.pdf. I was interested in how this effect sounds and after finishing it, I can only say it sounds interesting. The assembly takes place in a simple TEKO housing. I changed the circuit board a bit,…
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Electro Harmonix – Big Muff
A distortion device is also a fine thing, I thought to myself, and made one for myself. A Big Muff clone from Electro Harmonix. There are many different templates on the net. I decided me for one of http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com. I used a simple TEKO case and glued it with hot glue. The distortion is…
Read MoreETI 603 Sequencer
In the December issue of the magazine Elrad from 1978 there was a sequencer, which I copied and used with my MS-20 and MS-10. Unfortunately I gave it away sometime, because I had sold both synthesizers. In the meantime I remembered this easy to build sequencer and rebuilt it. Since I don’t want to violate…
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