our hobby is going big time: premiere guitar article on stompbox building

[Chaloney]

Just saw an article in the latest edition of Premiere Guitar about making a simple distortion effect. http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/21291-build-your-own-stompbox

[vigilante397]

This circuit they show how to build is also a great one for those with building experience but no design experience. It's a very simple circuit with a lot of potential for modification to experiment with sound and see what things do.

[R.G.]

Our hobby went big time a decade ago.

[John Lyons]

 

[smallbearelec]

Joe's article mentions the Forum as a resource. Even though he's done a good tutorial, beginners will probably still bang on the door here with questions. If any such refer to parts from the Cave, please note that I have posted in my Library a spreadsheet list for this build with SKU numbers:

https://www.smallbearelec.com/Library/PartsLists/PremierGuitarDist.xls

Regards
SD

[Lurco]

The author is in the house: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?action=profile;u=15612;sa=showPosts

[petey twofinger]

i was thinking the same thing that rg said , then i reconsidered , its really more of an addiction or illness in some cases .

not that  i have built a lot or that i am a tech , expert or pro , i just spend too much time day dreaming about this stuff .

the rubber should meat the road at some point i guess is the point i am trying to make . there is so much info out there on gear and this stuff , often times its over whelming to me . but then again , it is a lot more healthy of an internet time waster than say porn or online gambling or 4 chan or whatever . i mean at least the folks who hang around this sort of data are doing stuff with it irl , and to me thats what the internet is all about , or should be anyway .

sorry , back to the lounge .

[Mark Hammer]

I highly recommend inserting a 5k-10k pot between the diode pair and ground, wired up as a simple variable resistance, to provide different degrees of clipping.  If you make those diodes Schottky type (e.g., 1N5817, BAT41 or 46), you'll like that added control even more.

[Chaloney]

Our hobby went big time a decade ago.

I know, there's even been a documentary about it. 

I think the tongue-in-cheek tone I heard in my head did not translate well in my title