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#381
niftydog said:
It's certainly feasible, but IMO not practical, simple or an efficient use of your time... unless you are an electronics geek desperate to learn.

You shouldn't need anything fancy like a Varistor, but you're on the right track. I'm sure with some searching at places like diystompboxes.com you'd find schems for LFO's (low frequency oscillators) and voltage controlled filters that you could mash together. (A wah is just a bandpass filter, BTW.)

If you were me, you'd just go and buy one and mod it for bass if necessary.
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I guess what i'm looking for is a "modulated bandpass filter", like what is on the EHX Worm (and not the Frequency Modulator like I thought). The Electro-Harmoni call it a "Neo-Modulated Wah Phaser".

Looking at the video they have on the site, it seems to have a wide variety of tweaks & such.

So i guess Niftydog is right. Id be better off getting the Worm and modding it for bass, if necessary. it would certianly be easier (not to mention less costly, in both time, money & sanity :eek:) to do that Vs. trial & error with components.

So I guess that closes this case...i'll stick to building and modding the octave fuzz for now.
 
#382
Yeah My GGG Red Lama Clone is DONE! Sounds damn good too. It took me about 2 hours Friday night and another 2 hours tonight...after 2 hours of messing with my broken EH BMS. The BMS is a completely different story. Ill post pics and clips(???) later. One word of advice. If you order the complete kit from GGG...order it with the larger case that they originally offer. I had to float the board in side the EH nano series size case. Quite a bit of gain in it.
 
#383
selfblessed said:
Yeah My GGG Red Lama Clone is DONE! Sounds damn good too. It took me about 2 hours Friday night and another 2 hours tonight...after 2 hours of messing with my broken EH BMS. The BMS is a completely different story. Ill post pics and clips(???) later. One word of advice. If you order the complete kit from GGG...order it with the larger case that they originally offer. I had to float the board in side the EH nano series size case. Quite a bit of gain in it.
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Pics??
 
#387
Here is a GGG Muff I just put together to compare with a Bluebeard. Already shown it in another thread, but I might as well post it here :) GGG Muff is on the right. It was a bit of a rush job.

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#389
The only difference is 1 extra cap and 1 extra resistor in the Bluebeard (that I have noticed so far anyway).

The more I use the GGG version, the more it sounds like the BB. I think the BB has a slightly bigger and better sound all round though. The lows are lower and the highs are higher. Overall though, they are quite similar. As soon as I get a bit of time, i'll do an A/B clip.
 
#390
KarateKid25 said:
The only difference is 1 extra cap and 1 extra resistor in the Bluebeard (that I have noticed so far anyway).

The more I use the GGG version, the more it sounds like the BB. I think the BB has a slightly bigger and better sound all round though. The lows are lower and the highs are higher. Overall though, they are quite similar. As soon as I get a bit of time, i'll do an A/B clip.
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Wow. Sounds good. Suppose that extra capacitance is what makes it rounder.
 
#393
Okay, so, I'm trying to build myself a mixer/blender/channel selector. Basically, I have 2 pedals that I want to switch between, but I also want to be able to select both of them on a mix.
I drew this up last night, and posted a thread about it.
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Obvious problem, It lacked a buffer. Someone linked a thread about it in that thread, showing a blender with a buffer circuit. Only problem, it's one channel, not 3 (what I want is, effectively, 3 channels: A, B, A+b blend).

Any ideas on how I can combine the two thing and make it all work? Parts and complexity aren't issues.
 
#396
P_HAT said:
Cuz i never made any pedal before, i just got this full kit Invalid Link Removed

Can your, guys, gimme some advice - i want to make ver with more fuzz than a distortion, so what i should do? Russian green?

Thanks)
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THats what I would do, but I don't really have much experience with the Russian Muffs, but I hear they are very fuzzy :)

Lets see if KarateKid can chime in here, I think he has built the GGG one.
 

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