Showing posts with label Vibe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vibe. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Wiggle Wobble

Out of all the subminiature tube projects this one takes the cake. It's a tube powered vibrato, and it's lush as fuck! In the notes it says that by omitting one of the trace cuts you can get more of a tremolo effect, in retrospect I think this would be better implemented via a switch to connect/disconnect the trace cut therefore giving two effects in one. This circuit is a two part build and will not operate without a secondary 'LED' circuit to drive the LDRs. You can use any LED circuit you'd like however I found that a smoother fluctuation(fade) as opposed to choppy(blink) is more desirable in the actual behavior of the LED(s). Rick Holt who originally designed the circuit used a transistor based LFO, in my personal build I used the phase shift oscillator found in the Magnavibe pedal. I'll post a few layouts for the phase shift oscillator(PSU) that I used in another post.



Monday, October 4, 2021

Back And Forth

A subminiature tube tremolo pedal using the 5672. It adds quite a bit of boost and "grit" to your tone as well but still makes for a great effect. It lays somewhere in-between Tremolo and Vibrato. A very similar sound as the Bigfoot Magnavibe, for a modern reference. Rick Holt/Frequency Central posted the schematic on a forum somewhere deep in the mid to late 2000s and this is a part for part layout of that original schem.


 

Piggyback Pair

Germanium transistors are becoming more and more scarce and the ones that you do find aren't great options for the classic fuzz circuits...