My First Decent Diy Effects Pedal

[Ben]

Took me less than 2 hours to make it completely!

I havent bought a breadboard yet, so I basically just made it and crossed my fingers... seems God likes me today since it works and sounds good

Its basically a copy of a EH muff fuzz. It has silicon diodes instead of germanium (because germanium are too hard to find) which is meant to make the sound harsher, but I like the sound I got.

It only just fits inside that enclosure. The 9V was a squeeze, but it fit in there.

I'll replace the DPDT toggle switch with a footswitch later.

-I could record some sound clips if anyone is interested?

[Paul Marossy]

Nice work!

[GregP]

OF course we're interested in clips.

Congrats, maygn.

[Ben]

Thanks,

You'll have to wait till tomorrow for clips I'm afraid, its ten-to-eleven here, and we live in a terraced house, so I cant play it through the amp without disturbing the neighbors

I tried recording it direct into the sound card (because I can do that at low volume), which was....interesting

The sound card adds an extra stage of distortion, and it sounded awful. So bad it was pretty funny

even with some fiddling, it still sounded pretty crap, so it'll have to wait until tomorrow I think.

[Ben]

-Oh and BTW, what does "maygn" mean?

[Samba Pa Ti]

nice pedal, which silicon transistors did you use ? and what diodes did you use ?

going off this http://www.freeinfosociety.com/electronics...view.php?id=513

i found all the parts on banzai

Transistors

http://www.banzaieffects.com/2N5088-pr-16529.html

http://www.banzaieffects.com/2N5089-pr-16530.html

Diodes

http://www.banzaieffects.com/1N914-pr-16443.html

http://www.banzaieffects.com/1N4148-pr-16451.html

[Ben]

I made the op-amp version, since at the electronics shop I went to they didnt have the transistors (and apparantly no substitutes either).

Heres the schematic for the one I made

http://www.montagar.com/~PATJ/mufffuzz.gif

And even with that schematic I had to substitute the op-amp. I think I'l just order online in future.

I'l have to open it up to check what diodes I used.

[Ben]

The diodes are 1n4001

Heres the interior

Still working on those sound clips

[Samba Pa Ti]

I made the op-amp version, since at the electronics shop I went to they didnt have the transistors (and apparantly no substitutes either).

Heres the schematic for the one I made

http://www.montagar.com/~PATJ/mufffuzz.gif

And even with that schematic I had to substitute the op-amp. I think I'l just order online in future.

I'l have to open it up to check what diodes I used.

cheers, just what i was after

[Ben]

I just thought I'd post to say sorry for not getting those sound clips

Seems it was not meant to be;

-First tried with my sound card, which distorted it insanely and made it sound ridiculous

-I got some decent clips on my MP3 player (it can record audio)... then discovered I'd lost the cable I need to connect it to the pc.

-I now have everything I need to record... exept any guitar cables!

My brother borrowed them without asking and left them at my mums

I leave for a 3 week holiday tomorrow, so I dont think I'll be able to get those clips

At least not for 3 weeks anyway

[Jozer99]

Weird question: What kind of knob is that? It looks awesome, I've never seen a chrome/black tophat knob like that before.

[Ben]

its from maplin electronics in the UK

it was about 50p i think.

they have them on their website i think

www.maplin.co.uk