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Enveloping Timbre: envelope distortion
Keep the clarity of your attack before letting the distortion embrace you: the best of both worlds! At least that was the original idea...
Nov 28, 20229 min read


PUP: a host of Perfectly Usable Phasers
I’ve always liked phasers, in fact one of my first pedals I’ve ever built was a Phase 45 clone. Not only I liked how it sounded, another...
Oct 22, 202215 min read


Dudson Narrowcast V2
This is a circuit I've made a little more than a year ago, as an answer to a very popular distortion pedal based on preamplifiers of the...
Oct 6, 20225 min read


Bootstrapping is great
Bootstrapping is a technique that has always fascinated me. In few words, by feeding an in-phase signal to the other end of the resistor,...
Sep 23, 20224 min read


TE 386 drive
I've never been much into using the LM386 as distortion device. Mostly, the 50k cap on input resistance was what put me off, but also...
Sep 22, 20223 min read


SLO mini tube preamplifier
Sometimes things don't go as you planned. You try and try again but the issues persist. This project has been around in some form for...
Sep 3, 202210 min read


Sapphire amplifiers and the TDA2030 "phender"
My favorite amplifier is probably the Chempion I've built a couple of years ago. Since I use the amplifier mostly clean, relying on my...
Aug 23, 20228 min read


Chempion tube amp
A couple of years ago I've built this small DC-powered tube amplifier. It's based on the "Silverface" Fender Champion AA764. Disclaimer...
Aug 22, 20227 min read


VCA-1 multipurpose VCA pedal
I've had the idea of an envelope-controlled VCA effect pedal for a few months. Of course, many existing circuits fall into this broad...
Aug 15, 202215 min read
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