Purple Peaker+Splitter Blend(Blue box+[Green Ringer+Bass Fuzz])

[El Heisenberg]

So this is the second time ive put an octave up and down in the same box. I loved it, but after breadboardin the blue box i want that as the ocrave down, instead of the Shoctave. But i hot glued the pots to the box, so why not just make anothrr one? The first one, (which i call Parallel Universe) is the splitter-blend from ROG, without the phase thingy, with a shoctave and green ringer in parallel. The green ringer has the filter and octave off mods and has a switch so i can turn on the bass fuzz with a trim volume after it.

This time itll be blue box+(green ringer+bass fuzz). I want to put somethibg to help with the tracking in front of it all tho. I already use a compressor before it but was thinkin building either a red ranger on the low setting or a purple peaker on the low setting. They both do the job, but i came across this:

isn't there a green ringer circuit in the mutron octave divider circuit? also i believe that some EE named george merriman patented some tracking circuit for both the octave up(green ringer - dan armstrong) and octave down in the octave divider. maybe you can extract the tracking circuit? just a thought, peace waldo

Actual article of source - 2nd paragraph:

http://www.beitec.com/articles/vintage/vintage3.html

George merrimans tracking patent:

http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=04151775&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm%2526r%3D2%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526d%3DPTXT%2526S1%3D'Merriman%3B%252BGeorge'%2526OS%3D%252522Merriman%3B%252BGeorge%252522%2526RS%3D%252522Merriman%3B%252BGeorge%252522&PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=9BC69EE9D31D

2nd source:

http://www.beitec.com/stomp.htm

My Mu-Oct-Div Schematic -
http://www.geocities.com/waldo041/muoctdiv1.jpg

My Mu-Oct-Div Parts list -
http://www.geocities.com/waldo041/muoctdiv

[El Heisenberg]

That was posted in a thread here from like 2004 . The only links that still work are the ones that take u to like a history of musitronics. Doea anyone know anything about the tracking circuitry for the greeb ringer he mentioned?? Maybe another link??

Also, would anybody recommend that i use the phase thing on the blue box channel in the splitter blend? Herea the schem:

http://www.runoffgroove.com/splitter-blend.html



also, anyone know of a simple, or sorta simple, 2 octave up circuit? Never seen one. Maybe two GRs in series?

Anybody have any suggestions on this? Im open to suggestions. Thats what i am fishing for here. Very very many suggestions on Parellel Universe Mk2. Just as long as its simple (i aint buildin the pearl oc-2 in there) but id mainly like the get rid of the need to turn down the tone knob on my guitar all the way down when i stomp it in.

Originally i wanted to have two stompswitches to turn the GR and Shocktave on individually, then when they were both on they would be blendable in parallell with the splittet blend, but i ciuldnt figure out how to do this.

[El Heisenberg]

I just went ahead and took the shocktave out and built the blue box into the old box.

Problem tho, when i blend the greeb ringer and the blue box theres a volume drop. But when each is alone its pretty loud. Would biulding the phase reverse part of the splitter blend in there help this out? Also theres a switch for that portion of the splitter blend. But i dunno which position is "on", reversing the phase.

[El Heisenberg]

Lemme rephrase the question here:

with a blue box and green ringer run in parallel through ROGs splitter blend, do i need, or would it be better, to use the phase reversing portion of the circuit, which i initially left out of the build?

[El Heisenberg]

Im askin instead of doing because the box is literally packed and crammed with circuitry already: two point to point bass fuzz circuits (one with an inductor), a tiny voltage divider board, splitter blend on two boards, green ringer and blue box. Thats like 5 (or 6) circuits already! Thinkin of goin ahead and stuffong the purple peaker in there too...