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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: Gilles C on August 15, 2004, 09:13:17 AM

Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: Gilles C on August 15, 2004, 09:13:17 AM
Looking for a distortion project to build?

Just found this

http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_30329/article.html

A mike preamp?

http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_102159/article.html
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: toneman on August 15, 2004, 09:48:31 AM
requires a "subscription".

do U have schematic??

tone
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: Gilles C on August 15, 2004, 12:23:38 PM
A subscription??? No.

I found it with Google and just went through it...

Now I can't acces it either.  :(  

Sorry. I'll check that again.
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: mikeb on August 15, 2004, 05:49:02 PM
You need to buy a sub for the on-line version. I think I've got that distortion article around somewhere but - personally - I wouldn't bother. While I have a great respect for Silicon Chip the musician-related articles are always produced from a 'boffins' point of view - checkout the packaging of the distortion box! It's a plastic case, unshielded.

There's much better circuits already freely available on the 'net.

Mike
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: spongebob on August 16, 2004, 02:59:09 AM
If you click on "printer-friendly version" you can see a very small picture of the schematic, looks like something op-amp based...
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: spongebob on August 16, 2004, 03:15:04 AM
http://us1.webpublications.com.au/static/images/articles/i303/30329_3mg.jpg :twisted:

Looks like a deluxe version of a Dist+, with a 3-way EQ and opamp-based virtual ground, but otherwise no surprises...
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: Arno van der Heijden on August 16, 2004, 03:38:10 AM
What's the deal with all this supply filtering??!!!
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: Paul Perry (Frostwave) on August 16, 2004, 08:14:43 AM
Quote from: Arno van der HeijdenWhat's the deal with all this supply filtering??!!!
The 220nFare just bypass caps at each of the chips, I expect.
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: StephenGiles on August 16, 2004, 01:34:02 PM
This isn't going to sound anywhere near as good as a RAT!
Stephen
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: Gilles C on August 16, 2004, 02:15:23 PM
Hummm... Got misunderstood here.  :o

Don't forget I said "nice article"...

I didn't mean this circuit was better than anything else  :wink:

Just that there was some nice info in the article...

The schematic is just a part of the info, not the info itself, that could have helped a beginner understand a few things...

That's what is missing sometimes in some projects: info.

I always felt that for a schematic to be informative, it needed some explanations to go with that. Well, I'm talking about people who still don't know how things work. That includes many beginners that come to this forum to learn.

A good example of what I like to see: GEO's site http://www.diystompboxes.com/forums/stompboxforum/

That is also why I like to give a lot of details when I post something.

Sorry, my mother made me like that.  :)

Gilles
Title: Interesting page/article
Post by: brett on August 16, 2004, 10:42:58 PM
I agree that this isn't a quality kit.  But Silicon chip has an excellent project/article on direct injection.  The kit (incl quality pre-drilled metal box, etc) sells for about OZ$40 = US$30.  IMO great value.
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