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11-28-2008, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Atlanta, Georgia | | | How many of ya'll...
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Make your own effects or modify them?
The reason that I ask is that I am currently writing a software program that will do a lot of the calculations for the electronics for things like preamps and pedals. Just to get rid of a lot of the tedium. Would anyone else benefit from something like this?
I am also considering doing a signal simulator and component layout generator with it as well. I know that they already exist in one form or another, but the one I am writing is specifically for analog circuits and audio circuits in particular.
I am not looking for a "market" so to speak, I am just wondering if anyone else does this as a hobby, not necessarily a profession. Maybe I am just alone, but I can't believe that there is no demand for something like this. I have looked and the only reason that I am writing it is because I want something to do this and no one provides anything!
Guess I rambled... sorry.
Thanks!
Ox.
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11-28-2008, 08:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Atlanta, Georgia | | | That is what I thought too, but I think a lot of people are interested in it. There is a big difference between that and actually doing it, which by the lack of responses leads me to believe my hypothesis!
I guess that is why no one has bothered to create such a tool. Oh well, if you want something done...
Ox.
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11-28-2008, 08:46 PM
| | βΘИΞКЯŲŜĦÏИĞ ŦΘИΞ® #1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Florida | | | I can. I've built quite a few fuzz pedals in the past for friends. Along with some clean boosts. I also rehoused an FM radio in pedal form, someone asked for a way to control radio signals they were picking up. So I put a radio in a pedal that they could put at the beginning of their chain. I'll tell you that fuzzed out, pitch shifted and modulated radio signals are cool as hell with some guitar playing over it. I really need to gather some money up and build a few more kits. |
11-28-2008, 08:47 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | So one hour of no responses tells you nobody is interested?  Actually quite a lot of us make or modify pedals, we've had many threads about it. I would certainly be interested in your program, if you can make it Mac compatible. I do plan to get a PC for this sort of thing, since all the good EE software is not Mac compatible, but hey- it can't hurt to ask. |
11-28-2008, 09:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Atlanta, Georgia | | So I am impatient... My wife could have told you that! 
I am writing it in Linux, so I should be able to make a Mac target without too much of an issue. I have never tried it before though ( a Mac target that is)... I guess that you could be my guinea pig. It will be a while before completion.
I was pretty sure that YOU have done such things, but you know how it is on the 'net... you get a lot of people that say they do such things... but how many REALLY do?!
I apologize for jumping the gun to all ya'll modders and tweakers out there. Let me know some features ya'll would like to see and I will see what I can do!
Ox.
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11-28-2008, 09:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | Want.
But what would be the coolest would be if you were able to do a signal simulation from a circuit diagram. That way a n00b designer (like myself) could go through a lot of trial and error without having to get ahold of tons of components.
Also, you could make circuit diagrams and layouts shareable via an online community. Maybe we'd all get to some sort of consensus on the definitive Big Muff, etc.
Heh, next step is setting up something like Cafe Press for PCBs. |
11-28-2008, 10:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Atlanta, Georgia | | | Thanks for the input Bird!
My ultimate goal is to be able to do the simulation straight from the schematic. As we speak (type?) I am actually writing the methods to do the calculations on the component network to make simulation even possible.
My background is in artificial intelligence and statistical analysis, so this is the easy part. Getting it right as I kill off the remaining Negro Modelo is the hard part...
As stated earlier, this will be ongoing for some time, so if you are interested then please subscribe to this thread and I will provide updates. This will be a while in the coming, but I think worth the wait when it is done!
FWIW, the target platform will be Linux with as few dependencies as possible. I will probably try to make a Mac version (for Bongo) but I doubt I will go for Windows. I have programmed on Windows for over 15 years... that ain't the issue. Windows just sucks for this kind of stuff... sorry to all you Windows guys!
Ox.
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