well this aint nothing special but it does function very effectively, so after some tried and true breadboarding i got a few things accomplished.

http://www.geocities.com/austenfantanio//mytrem.htm

my good buddy got into electronics and bought himself one of those nice kits at ratshack. well anyway, i have been educating him and also working on my own stuff. so i am hoping to get some new stuff rollin out soon.  built in speakers and such.

Cool Ansil!!!
 Just happened to be havin a 555 or two..I'll see what I can whip up here in a 'few'...
 you one cwazie Dude'man...Thanks for being YOU !!!

Cool

Quote from: petemooreCool Ansil!!!
 Just happened to be havin a 555 or two..I'll see what I can whip up here in a 'few'...
 you one cwazie Dude'man...Thanks for being YOU !!!

i try..  thanks  :lol:

BIG DADDY [output 'galore]> MiniBooster [J201 Muamp]>AMZ Tone Control !!!!!!!!!1 Just got it in the box and gonna try it after Dinn Dinn...
  I got em' 'urethansulated [surrounded in insulating urethane], so I can try 'moduels' combo ckts etc.
  Three wires and that one's [ckt] out...this one's in!!!

Quote from: petemooreBIG DADDY [output 'galore]> MiniBooster [J201 Muamp]>AMZ Tone Control !!!!!!!!!1 Just got it in the box and gonna try it after Dinn Dinn...
  I got em' 'urethansulated [surrounded in insulating urethane], so I can try 'moduels' combo ckts etc.
  Three wires and that one's [ckt] out...this one's in!!!

i came up with an interesting way to wire things.  you take a nice sized piece of dowel rod and you put the chip on the back of it. and anyway you take and arrange all of yoru parts accross the dowel then put a piece of maskign tape backtehre solder it all up cut off excess dowel and heat shrink it.

Sounds like something Idda thunk up ... But I didn't...Kool...

wow nice i wanna try...


gotta get to the Rat Shack to pick up a 555 :-D

couple of tweaks i forgot to add lastnight.  you can change the cap in it to get a different overall freq range.  personally i like the 4.7uf with the 100k pot as it gave me a nice sound.  but you could also put another cap in there with maybe a three way switch so it would give you either one and a parralle or a series combination.  

a 1uf gets pretty fast.  and a 100uf gets way to slow, for my tastes..  but you never know.also if you use the 1meg instead of a 100k pot you can even get choppy type wave forms out of it without changing the cap.  and i didnt' use a pot on the setup of it.  i used a aprox 120k resistance on the ldr.  that is what i liked but some might want a little smoother.the ldr i had was about four times higher than the 120k resistance.  

so it was a good drop for me. also you could use a transistor or a dual opamp to drive the circuit.  my test circuit was to buidl a 555 oscilator and i got a nice smooth tone around the guitars a string and dumped it into a lm386n-1 in bridged mode into a 100k pot with the ldr beign inbetween the 555 and the 386  so i would surely need some sort of gain stage before the trememlo.  

i am thinking of making this into a trem/distortion leveler.  so it changes the gain in the distortion circuit as well as tremelo

I tried it a few times with different IC's one marked TL555, the other was from RS and the packge sedd 555 TIMER.
 It was lightin up the LED there, and one I had in it I could vary the brightness from fairly dim to about off ...
 Well I tried the LED's in both ways just in case it was different than the usual [flat side toward Gnd for lighting?]...
  I messed with it for a while and rememed someone saying there's different types of 555 TIMERS? Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow but I dunno...seemed to check out pretty good...

Quote from: petemooreI tried it a few times with different IC's one marked TL555, the other was from RS and the packge sedd 555 TIMER.
 It was lightin up the LED there, and one I had in it I could vary the brightness from fairly dim to about off ...
 Well I tried the LED's in both ways just in case it was different than the usual [flat side toward Gnd for lighting?]...
  I messed with it for a while and rememed someone saying there's different types of 555 TIMERS? Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow but I dunno...seemed to check out pretty good...

i used a ka555  that was what came with the kit.

Kinda wondrin' thar fro a minute, 'till I decided soemthing might be up with that...
  SO where'a KA 555...?
  No biggie Ill see what NTE has and I still have the ckt built. ...since I don't have the part and all, I can say for absolutely, positively, certain that the ckt is 100%-1,000% Correct in all probability!!! lol

Well NTE comes up with a number...which opamps 'sounds' best in this circuit?...The one that makes it work !!! lol...I must have missed the post that said you need a 'special' 555 type IC to get it running.

hmm let me check and see if i mis drew it.  i dont' think i did i mean it was late when i was workin on it and stuff but it should be working fine.  the ka isnt' special by no means its jjust a generic one ratshack has in there kits.

i am a big dummy  it is uploaded agian i mis drew the capacitor connection points  it connects to the second pin and to ground..  duhhhhhhhh

I doubt it matters what op amp this has, I think it would sound just as good with any.
For anyone who is completely crazy, you could make a second 555 section (hell, that will cost almost a dollar!) and have TWO leds both shining on the LDR, then you can get some complex rhythms going!
(watch out 4MS.... only kidding)

Hmmm. I ripped a 555 of a LED chaser yesterday. Now to get my hands on an LDR

What's Pin three do?
  We'll get it again.
  Maybe you could redraw it?

You're precisely Right Paul Perry...
 As soone as I get blinky #1 going I can get blinky #2 started [I have at least two 555's here].
 I was thinking along the lines of two LED LDR's one on one Fuzz the other one on something different [EQ wise or etc]...then mix the two back in at the 'end'.
 Have 1 tremolo on the output of a 'twin chain' with the 'one' side doing something 'crazy'.

Do they make snap in/snap out LED bezels?
  ya take this ckt put it in a box, have yer LED' on a cable w/plug, add switch+LDR ckt so LED can be plugged in...to whatever you decide to add this to...
  Whatever pedals you decide to convert with the switched in LDR ckt.
  By the way how many LEDS can you run from one timer?