Blocks and fragments

These are various bits of things I've collected and drawn up over the years. Not all are tested, rather they are sketches that show basic ideas.

Amplifiers

Boosters

Buffers


Opamp Buffer from muzique.com


Opamp Buffer from Klon Centaur


FET Buffer from muzique.com


Buffer from Ibanez Tube Screamer

Clipping


Clipping diodes using a rotary switch

CMOS

 

Misc

Compressor based on SSM2166 Datasheet Example

 

LFOs


Schmitt Trigger LFO driving a Vactrol

 

Schmitt Trigger Basic LFO

Mixers

Input splitter + booster


Multiple input mixer with boost. Reproduce input 1 stage for multiple inputs


Buff n' Blend from Joel Purkiss


Stereo Panner


Passive Mixer

Oscillators


Oscillator built with a 40106 Schmitt Trigger


Oscillator based on hemmo's negister

Overdrive/Distortion


Voodoo Labs Overdrive with MOSFET Clippers and a tonestack


Electra Distortion

 

Power Supply


Power Supply Filtering with Reverse Polarity Protection


Voltage Sagger with Power Supply Filtering


Using an LM317 Regulator for Low Voltage Tube Heater Supply

Preamplifiers


FET Boost + Tonestack

Ring Modulator


Pseudo Ring Modulator built with a 567 Tone Decoder Chip

Sequencer


Step sequencer based on a 4017 divider

Stompbox Wiring

Switching


Switching between Transistors
 


Switching between two sets of components

Theremins

 


Simple Pitch Only Theremin

Tone Stacks


mid-scoop notch filter

 


Tonestack from Marshall Guvnor


Fake Variable Capacitors


Yet Another Tone Control

Tubes


 


 

 

 

 

 


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