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New toy

Post by laurie » Fri Mar 05, 2021 12:28 pm

I sold my old scope last year. I just never bonded with it... I know that sounds weird, but scopes are like amps - you either like them or you don't.

This new one is The Business. Very happy with it.
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Re: New toy

Post by Pepe » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:59 pm

Cool! Can we expect new effect circuits soon? :D
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Re: New toy

Post by fernieite » Fri Mar 05, 2021 9:38 pm

Cool. What's it telling you about that pedal's circuit board? That wave on the monitor means something, right? :geek:

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Re: New toy

Post by Pepe » Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:43 pm

That should be an overdriven sine waveform, correct?
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Re: New toy

Post by laurie » Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:10 am

Pepe wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:43 pm
That should be an overdriven sine waveform, correct?
Yep. Overdriven sine wave, with even harmonics.

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Re: New toy

Post by laurie » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:06 am

That waveform was from a sick Lovepedal Les Lius that was on the workbench. It was lacking amplitude and waveform symmetry. Turned out to be the input buffer transistor - first one I've ever seen fail.

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Re: New toy

Post by laurie » Sun Mar 07, 2021 3:09 am

Pepe wrote:
Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:59 pm
Cool! Can we expect new effect circuits soon? :D
Maybe. I have an idea for a Germanium overdrive that, to my knowledge, has never been done before in the way I'm thinking.

I have hundreds of low-gain Germanium transistors that didn't "make the cut" for the Fuzz Architect pedals that could be used ...

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Re: New toy

Post by Pepe » Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:23 am

That sounds promising!
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Re: New toy

Post by visserman » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:15 pm

Laurie, could you build a design based on a circuit you put into your guitar? Not interested in a pedal really. As you mentioned you have a lot of low gain transistors, a circuit like this may fit the bill.
Maybe some other folks here may be interested as well.

I am not sure if you would need to know specifics of the guitar, since this could turn it into a "one-off custom idea" which is less interesting for you.
Just let us know what the possibilities are, and also, if other people are interested in something like that as well.

For me, I would like it, just one sound, ideally operated by a push-pull button.
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Re: New toy

Post by Pepe » Sun Mar 07, 2021 2:32 pm

Something like an old Dan Armstrong unit maybe? :)

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