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yep, ive been trawling those. :rolleyes:
I'm changing all the resistor and cap values to match those of a green russian big muff. also think there may be a coulple of componants in a different order on torchies layout.

anyway, parts ordered, Forgot the knobs so and a couple of componants for the power supply so the will have to maplin it up for them :)

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Here's this weekend's project - a nice little veroboard circuit and a classic fuzz-style overdrive clone. It uses a CD4049UBE hex inverter chip to cascade gain stages to produce a pretty good usable overdrive tone. For me its somewhere in the middle of a fuzz and a tubescreamer-type distortion. Well worth a build.
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[quote name='JackLondon' post='759448' date='Feb 27 2010, 09:26 PM']Right lads, I'm in a need of some parts that I can't find anywhere :lol:

It's all capacitors so if any of you could help me out I would apreciate it :)

I'm after :

4 x 0.05uF
2 x 0.0027uF
1 x 5pF
1 x 0.0027uF
1 x 0.0033uF
1 x 0.0047uF
1 x 0.033uF
1x 0.047uF

Who can help :rolleyes:[/quote]

Have you tried [url="http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.html"]Bitsbox[/url]? Fast delivery & good prices. They should have all of those caps.

You may find [url="http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/units-converter/electrostatic-capacitance/calculator/picofarad-%5bpF%5d-to-nanofarad-%5bnF%5d/"]this[/url] useful as well
For example 0.0027uF = 2.7nF

What are you building BTW?

Cheers

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[quote name='nick' post='759458' date='Feb 27 2010, 09:43 PM']Have you tried [url="http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.html"]Bitsbox[/url]? Fast delivery & good prices. They should have all of those caps.

You may find [url="http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/units-converter/electrostatic-capacitance/calculator/picofarad-%5bpF%5d-to-nanofarad-%5bnF%5d/"]this[/url] useful as well
For example 0.0027uF = 2.7nF

What are you building BTW?

Cheers[/quote]

I must be blind coz I can find them :)

I'm "attempting" to build : Small Clone Chorus, Rebote 2 Delay and MXR Envelope Filter all of them based on tonepad.com projects! I'm just ordering parts and stuff but couldn't find those capacitors anywhere!

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[quote name='JackLondon' post='759492' date='Feb 27 2010, 10:29 PM']I'm "attempting" to build : Small Clone Chorus, Rebote 2 Delay and MXR Envelope Filter all of them based on tonepad.com projects! I'm just ordering parts and stuff but couldn't find those capacitors anywhere![/quote]

Impressive stuff you're making! Im having a go at the small clone from tonepad. Buying a board from them. I'll keep up with how your build is going!

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I ordered a few weeks back and got worried they still existed! The guy emailed back to confirm for me! :rolleyes:
Yeah is it £12 or more and you have to start paying VAT?

Going back to my drill dillemas, my local DIY store didn't have any cone step drill bit things. A 12 mm bit was £13! In the sale a Bosch 100 bit set of bits and screw driver heads was only £14. I bought that,used a 10mm and wiggled!

All holes drilled, painted red, all parts in way. Im just short two resistors and one cap for rigging up the power supply inside. Oh and I forgot to order knobs. :)

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in fact.... i have a load of these in cream, 19mm for 6.3mm shafts


need 3/4 more knobs of some kind. anybody got any spare i could have off you? (should prob put this in the items wanted bit but think wil get more views here from ppl who build things)

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hi guys,
i want to build a sound to light unit that i can plug into.

i've found a drawing which i think should work. It uses a 12v circuit, but i want to power it using a 9v battery. is this going to be a problem?

as far as i see it i'm going to need a box to allow me to take a feed from the main signal, but without losing the main line, in order to make it work

is this going to be a simple - ish job?

sorry for so many questions!

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[quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='760273' date='Feb 28 2010, 10:52 PM']hi guys,
i want to build a sound to light unit that i can plug into.

i've found a drawing which i think should work. It uses a 12v circuit, but i want to power it using a 9v battery. is this going to be a problem?

as far as i see it i'm going to need a box to allow me to take a feed from the main signal, but without losing the main line, in order to make it work

is this going to be a simple - ish job?

sorry for so many questions![/quote]

Can you post the drawing/schematic for the unit?

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okay, next question. what do you want it for? at the moment if that cuircuit works (and I don't know enough about electronics to kknow if it does) when the input signal gets above a certain level the lights go on. There is no way of setting the level.
depending on what you want it for would [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=26071"]this kit work[/url]? it may be easy to modify the mic input into a jack input.... and if it worked it would flash according to volume...

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[quote name='dudewheresmybass' post='761375' date='Mar 1 2010, 11:52 PM']this is it:



i was going to change the jack plug for a 1/4" socket, and run it from what i would describe as a side chain.

any ideas?[/quote]

It looks fairly simple to acomplish, you can however expand on this project and put in a sound sensor as well which would react to the music being played, sort of a effect of flashing disco lights.

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Right chaps, whilst the paint on my effects is drying up I was contemplating over the idea of building a dc brick. There are 2 sensible ones I can find.

First is tonepad project using LM317 voltage regulator with total cost of around £40 :

[url="http://www.tonepad.com/getFile.asp?id=111"]http://www.tonepad.com/getFile.asp?id=111[/url]

Second is general guitar gadgets using flatpack transformer with total cost of around £30 :

[url="http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/ggg_reg_power_supply.pdf"]http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/gg...ower_supply.pdf[/url]

To be honest the tonepad project appeals to me more than the ggg one but I might be wrong, wht are your thoughts ? There's also a question if any of you built one ? If you did how quiet is it and is it difficult ?

Cheers
Jack

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[quote name='JackLondon' post='761668' date='Mar 2 2010, 11:35 AM']Right chaps, whilst the paint on my effects is drying up I was contemplating over the idea of building a dc brick. There are 2 sensible ones I can find.

First is tonepad project using LM317 voltage regulator with total cost of around £40 :

[url="http://www.tonepad.com/getFile.asp?id=111"]http://www.tonepad.com/getFile.asp?id=111[/url]

Second is general guitar gadgets using flatpack transformer with total cost of around £30 :

[url="http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/ggg_reg_power_supply.pdf"]http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/pdf/gg...ower_supply.pdf[/url]

To be honest the tonepad project appeals to me more than the ggg one but I might be wrong, wht are your thoughts ? There's also a question if any of you built one ? If you did how quiet is it and is it difficult ?

Cheers
Jack[/quote]

i think the GGG one will be easier to set up if you only want 9v and both should have similar noise levels. Personally if i was doing my own pedal power supply i'd go alot more overkill and completely destroy the noise!

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[quote name='umph' post='761707' date='Mar 2 2010, 12:22 PM']i think the GGG one will be easier to set up if you only want 9v and both should have similar noise levels. Personally if i was doing my own pedal power supply i'd go alot more overkill and completely destroy the noise![/quote]

Can you please elaborate ? :)

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