A few things I'm working on.

Just some stuff I'm trying to build at the moment....

I didnt know until ~after~ i'd finished the artwork that another company had a pedal out with the same name. Dammit.

It's based on the mid-fi clari(not) delay, which is a pitch-bending delay/fuzz circuit, but this one is modified with:

A switch to kill the LM386-based fuzz (horrible IC for fuzz, if you ask me).

Switchable external optical pitch control ( wave your foot over/around it).

A regeneration control (feedback into the delay line), also switchable.

The cool thing about the regen control is that you can control it with you guitar's volume knob. let it go into oscillation, and by slightly lowering the volume on the guitar, it fades away, while still having the echo on. Nifty.

I'm not completely satisfied with the pitch tracking. something in the LDR/LED combo isn't quite     how i's like it. I've tried a Vactrol (VTL5c1) - too harsh on the tracking. Tried a  "roll your own" optoisolator.... same result. 

This thing does a GREAT "degrading echo" a la Pink Floyd on the album "Animals" ("dragged down by the stone...stone.....stone...stone....")

I dont know.... it might sound great to other guitar players, I am really not at all an "echo" guy...not much for reverb on my sound ,either.

My setup usually just has a modified Vox 847 and a one-knob FET  Boost. 

For a guy who dont use effects that much, I sure do build/own a lot of them. But more about that in a future post...

Curt

Welcome to my blog. Why have a blog....?

Why not.

I guess this is just a place I can post things (mostly circuits and music) that I think are cool, interesting, or different.
Maybe even vent my unbridled anger, when i need to. 

And,  i tend to forget capitalizing the letter "i" when referring to myself. i pick and poke when i type, so....there it is.

A few tidbits about myself, you say?

Ok....

Music:                         i like it.
Guitar playing:             i do that, too.
Build stuff for guitar:    i try.