[fyi] the firebottle tube pedal by g. forrest cook

[gaussmarkov]

just out, built around a 12AX7 in a "starved" mode for distortion with a 12v power supply goosed up to 30v "produced by an LMC555 CMOS timer chip set to generate square waves and fed to a voltage tripler circuit": http://www.solorb.com/elect/musiccirc/firebottle/

[caress]

that looks really interesting...

[Paul Marossy]

Huh, that's a very interesting looking circuit. I wonder how it sounds, though.

[markm]

Huh, that's a very interesting looking circuit. I wonder how it sounds, though.

I was thinking both thoughts myself.

[Paul Marossy]

I'm thinking it would sound really buzzy with those 555s in there.

[gaussmarkov]

forrest says he borrowed the idea from PAiA and modified it to use a modern CMOS 555 timer
and schottky diodes.  i think it's worth trying. 

[Paul Marossy]

Whoever builds this, please post soundclips!