Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Dirtbox Layouts
Monday 30 September 2024
Sunday 29 September 2024
Holy Island Audio Cannibal Pride Drone Synth
Chris have done it again...
"Gwion of Holy Island Audio builds awesome stuff and, included in the package if you purchased the debut release from Gwion's band, Smothering, is a DIY PCB for a three oscillator drone synth called the Cannibal Pride. This is that synth, and it sounds KILLER - keep in mind that, as this is a sound source and not an effect, there is of course, no input."
Friday 20 September 2024
Thursday 19 September 2024
Tuesday 17 September 2024
Sunday 15 September 2024
Saturday 14 September 2024
BJFe Universal Reverb V2 / Capitalist Death Cult Actual G*ddamned Springs
Heavily modified revebr unit by BJFe, treated by Chris Stelloh.
A couple of the tweaks are from Björn - in particular, the 2k2 resistor from the source of Q1 to ground. Lowering that value fixes a volume drop that can happen when the 50k dwell pot is maxed. I replaced the second dwell pot with a 10 ohm fixed resistor, so that it is almost at maximum. I also added a flat-mids BMP tone control and BC337 recovery stage that sounds really great paired with this circuit. Using a PN3269a in Q2 can squeal with feedback (a GOOD thing in my world) so dialing in the 10k output trimpot is a necessary step. It is possible to set it so that it only howls when the dwell+mix are turned to maximum. The charge pump is something I redrew from an old tagboard layout. The 555 doubler puts out 30mA of current which this verb circuit needs most of (the schematic says it draws around 20mA, and that was before I added the extra transistor) no matter what voltage you are running it at.
Friday 6 September 2024
Tuesday 3 September 2024
Friday 30 August 2024
Thursday 29 August 2024
Tuesday 27 August 2024
Sunday 25 August 2024
1776 Multiplex Delay Modulation Add-on
A little useful modulation daughterboard for your delay circuits. Created by the one and only Chris Stelloh.
I originally made this for Ben Spinks, who verified it. It's the modulation daughterboard for the 1776 Effects Multiplex delay and it works pretty well with just about any PT2399 delay circuit. I've listed my preferred values as well as the originals from the build document. You can add a toggle between the mod depth and the delay pot to turn it off and on, but if you simply max the speed/rate knob, the modulation is no longer audible and the rate LED is static.