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I'm working through getting my current lover working and have a question about the MN3207 and v3270 error that is addressed with D4.  Should I simply connect the anode to +C6/D5 junction and completely avoid soldering it to the designated hole? 

Or should they D4 be put in its spot on the board and D4 anode jumpered to +C6/D5? 

In either case I don't get 7.6-7.7 VDC on pin 4 of IC2, i get 8.25v

Any help is appreciated.

On first try i got flanging noise that would change with the rate, but the dry signal was just fed through.  I re-flowed and re-cleaned, now i just have dry signal.  Figured I start with working this voltage first.

Thanks
Mark

Thanks Jacob, I'll add it to the list and grab the circuit.

I just notices the blue clipper uses an op amp, so need to take that off (and re-research op amps and transistors).

Mark

Hello all - I'm planning to make a big fuzz box to help me understand fuzz circuits a little more.  The thought is to make a box with 8 fuzz circuits, the feed them all into a mixer and have adjustable volume on each.  The 8 would be 1 transistor fuzz, 2 transistor fuzz, 3 transistor fuzz....through 8 transistor fuzz.  Thought this would be a useful way to learn a little as i research and breadboard.

Anyway, looking for suggestions on the different fuzzes, here is what i have gathered so far.  was trying to stay all silicon but i have a few germanium transistors around.  let me know if you have suggestions for fuzz circuits to explore for this little project, or comments on the ones below.

cheers,
Mark

1 transistor
ETI Fuzz
Dan Armstrong blue clipper
electra distortion

2 transistor
Silicone Mosrite Fuzzrite
fuzz face
Roger mayer axis fuzz
univox squarewave fuzz
WEM Pep Box Rush
Orpheum Fuzz

3 transistor
tonebender
Jen Fuzz / Jen Fuzz III
Maestro FZ-1 / 1A
Marshal Supa Fuzz
Selmer Buzztone
companion fuzz
z vex fuzz factory

4 transistor
big muff
Ampeg scrambler
Maestro Fuzz

5 transistor
Fender blender
z vex octane 3

6 transistor
Super Fuzz
Tube Sound Fuzz

7 transistor
Death By Audio Fuzz War

8 transistor
WEM Project V

Sorry if this is a stupid question, my confidence is down,  I'm coming off a losing battle putting an effects loop in an echo base, buffered loop for single applied loop, with switch for one that applies the effect each time it loops.  Setting it aside for now.  Keep chasing my tail on the failed/broken connections from the mods.

But I have the current lover pcb (electric mistress) and naughty fish pcb (mutron iii).  Want to have an output from the mutron iii envelope follower drive the rate (or range or both on switch???) of the electric mistress.  Looking through the Anderton envelope follower in his book and how he applied the follower to the filter, phaser, etc.....   The rate pot on the mistress is C1M and range is B100K.   Wondering if I can get the right opto-coupler/vacatrol, driven from the same spot in the mutron iii, and have it control the rate pot in the mistress.  And also maybe a separate one to drive the range???

I'm going to start placing components, then see what I can do, but any advice is appreciated.   

These are my first attempts going beyond the provided instructions and it is fun stuff, but frustrating (spent the last two weeks studying buffers!, should have paid more attention in electronics class (mech engineer).

Cheers,
Mark

I made a Skippy Tremolo from tagboardeffects layout, a vox repeat percussion clone.  It's called the Tchouper.  Tchoupitoulas is a street in New Orleans that runs along the river, named for an extinct Native American Indian Tribe.  The Wild Tchoupitoulas was a Mardi Gras Indian group who recorded an album in 1976 featuring some of the Neville brothers, pre-Neville Brothers.  Tipitinas, the famous music venue in New Orleans, is on Tchoupitoulas street.

So I have a tomahawk made from a resistor and transistor, and the crescent river shape, which Tchoupitoulas runs a portion of.  And it's chopped up! 

Sorry for the New Orleans overload.  Also bonus video of my 4 year old doing a demo.

Edit:  Sorry, I don't have a gut shot, I totally forgot to take one.  Think i was more proud of the outside than the inside.  I'll add as soon as i get it back from my friend/tester.

i'm making a percussive tremolo vox thing next, and this was sounding like it a some points, thought about giving up and saying done.  anyway, had not had a challenging troubleshooting process for a few months, fun to get through the process.  wife and kids probably don't appreciate it though.

Thanks Cody, i'm training my self with oversized boxes, love these octagon ones.  but looking forward to the day when i have the patience to put these in a 1590b...

Ha!  Totally missed that reference for the post, damn!

Orange Squeezer clone with a dreamsicle popsicle.  I think creamsicle's are more common than dreamsicle's, but could not allow myself to make a cream squeezer. 

So, Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer clone in oversized octagon box, using some resistor and transistor symbols in the graphic. 

This one was riddled with problems, wrong links on strip board, missed track cuts, etc.....   Simple circuit, but made some pretty crazy sounds before i got it working.  Note to self, Rum after board layout, not before....

i can't even get past the "iron-on-mask-to-enclosure" phase of etching, looks great to me. 

thanks jimi. the rat is problematic, not getting full melt your face distortion, and the fox tone machine is picking up tv stations.  I hooked it up for my mother and she had a blast, but then the road rage board started smoking (i have nothing staked down). 



Cody - that was my justification for spending two months making it and sadly ignoring him (and my daughter).

Here is a little video of my 7 year old son playing with the multi effect box i made, tubescreamer, tonebender, foxx tone machine, rat, small stone phaser, and echo base, (has a spring reverb but i still am mucking with it).  This room is noisy as hell, sorry.  He's not really interested in guitar, but likes the phaser because of phasers in star wars.

3v was in the original circuit, it sounds pretty cool though.  It was Syd Barrett's pedal.  Joe Gore included it in his germanium fuzz roundup, check it out.

http://tonefiend.com/guitar/fuzzdetective/

Thanks Y'all.  Here is a photo of a red one with a gut shot (sorry bad iphone camera).  I'm still learning how to optimize off board wiring obviously.  I did one of those font-matcher things online to find a font similar to the Selmer font.

I'm learning the waterslide decal stuff, working on etching (having trouble), but here is one of four of these i built for friends, a selmer buzztone clone with the boost switch, in an oversized octagon box.  crustache is sorta slang for a prepubescent mustache, fuzzy you know.  anyway it sounds pretty cool.  used AC125's in all of them, seems to be pretty forgiving to gain, but i'm partially deaf....  anyway, love these octagon boxes...

cheers