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Oct 22, 202215 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 6, 20225 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...

Sep 23, 20224 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 22, 20223 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 3, 202210 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...

Aug 23, 20228 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 22, 20227 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 15, 202215 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...

Jun 30, 20226 min read

Type C. OD and Plastic Timbre

Originally posted on the freestompboxes forum Type C. OD The OCD was my first veroboard build and a pedal I've always enjoyed as simple,...