When I think to use guitar pedal effects as outboard, in a recording setup, I have a very slick setup…
Read more →When I started building and experimenting with guitar effects circuits, I quickly found commercial breadboards to be too limiting. Assembling…
Read more →I’m building out my new home studio, and it badly needs some acoustic treatment. Since this is a bedroom studio,…
Read more →Have you ever felt like your fuzz pedal could use a little more character, a touch of that unpredictable magic…
Read more →Klone Ranger™ has ridden into town to protect the innocent vintage tones, and the new silicon tones as well. He’s…
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I’m thrilled to announce our first pedal is finally available for sale, and we called it Hi Scream™. Inspired by the legendary TS-9 Tubescreamer overdrive – originals of which are now selling for crazy prices, if you can find one at all! Re-inventing lost or rare vintage tech – with a modern twist – is…
I recently bought an old and (ab)used tube screamer that was making annoying buzzing, crackling and popping noises when turned on, and I thought the fix(es), as well as my debugging approach might be useful to other owners… First, yes I know pedals like these high gain overdrives are inclined to pick up mains hum,…
A design series on embedded electronics and audio design. Applying power to pedals should be a simple thing, but as designers we have to understand that if something can go wrong, it absolutely will. Or said another way, if a user can do something stupid, they will… So I thought I’d dig in on what…
An audio circuit test probe is a really simple, but useful tool when testing and debugging audio circuits. The one I’m presenting here is a little over the top(!) – you can build an equivalent much simpler and cheaper – but this one’s for me, and I like making things! Fundamentally, what I ‘m building…
A design series on embedded electronics and audio design. Today I’m going to complain about audio potentiometer taper naming. So, a long time ago, in a land far away, I was a young (devilishly handsome) British engineer – I even thought I was European – but heh, and I started to learn me some things……
I built these development board / test boxes to give me a robust and practical way to prototype my guitar effects pedals. They are pretty solid and can easily move from work bench to the floor for testing – especially with the onboard battery. The PCB ensures a solid connection to route power and audio…
