Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

[cream123]

too bad it's really hard to make for me and my limited know-how of IC chips. That combined with my ability with complex circuits tells me I'll have to wait a while. Unless Rid loves making pedals that much. :laugh2:


Here's a sweet clip

Here's a schematic.


Here's a bunch more sound clips

 

[cream123]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

No love for the sweet pedal?

 

[RW James]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

That is a really annoying sound... well, my opnion anyway

 

[Jazz Rock]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Is it meant to recreate early (80's) video games sound scape? Nostalgia from prehistoric IT maybe??

 

[SpeedDemon]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Not the best bit crusher(I think thats what it's called) I've heard. But it's pretty good.

 

[cream123]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Not the best bit crusher(I think thats what it's called) I've heard. But it's pretty good.

Do you have any other examples?

 

[Smilemon]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

My mac has a bitcrusher built into garage band, its really awesome at low settings. It takes the audio quality down so its sort of like a dirty clipping.

 

[cream123]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

My mac has a bitcrusher built into garage band, its really awesome at low settings. It takes the audio quality down so its sort of like a dirty clipping.

Sweet
When I first heard this clip I thought Who's playing a game from the 80s in the backround?

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Interesting. Maybe once I build the other pedals I want to do I'll add on to the list.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Is this anything like that '8-Bit Fuzz' pedal that looks like an old NES controller?

http://www.fxdoctor.com/8bit.html

-X

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Bitcrusher indeed!

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Is this anything like that '8-Bit Fuzz' pedal that looks like an old NES controller?

-X

I think that's just a fuzz with the transistor bias set to be really sputtery/gated.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

I tried a mod on a DS-1 that did that. I thought it was pretty neat until I actually had the pedal ready to go. After that, it was kinda boring.

 

[Bludave]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Why would you want to make yourself sound like KA KA!

 

[cream123]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

That NES thingy-mabobber sounds pretty sweet. That bit-crusher looks like such a hug pain in the butt to build!

Rid (or anyone else): do you know of any other production or not-so-complicated DIY bit-crusher that do the same thing?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

There's a ring mod preset on one of my processors, and I really dig turning on a techno drumbeat and jamming over it. I can't imagine going to the trouble of building a pedal for that, though.

I'm also curious how one decides if a ring mod (or similar) sounds good or not

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

That NES thingy-mabobber sounds pretty sweet. That bit-crusher looks like such a hug pain in the butt to build!

Rid (or anyone else): do you know of any other production or not-so-complicated DIY bit-crusher that do the same thing?

The schematic looks prett average, easier than most modulation effects...

Here's the Alesis Bitrman, it does ring mod, bit crushing, etc. and you can find it on ebay for about $40.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

I'm also curious how one decides if a ring mod (or similar) sounds good or not

I guess it boils down to if you can make music with it. The EHX Frequency Analyzer is a great sounding ring mod, it has a blend and a hi-cut filter that really let you get some beautiful sounds. Greanted, most of the time you aren't going to be using it in your SRV cover band, but I can use it sometimes.

http://media.zvex.com/ringtonedemo.mov I always thought this sounded great. Ton of dough, but fun.

 

[tubeman87]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

Sounds cool, but I probably couldn't find a use for it.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Now this is a sweet DIY Pedal

I guess it boils down to if you can make music with it. The EHX Frequency Analyzer is a great sounding ring mod, it has a blend and a hi-cut filter that really let you get some beautiful sounds. Greanted, most of the time you aren't going to be using it in your SRV cover band, but I can use it sometimes.

http://media.zvex.com/ringtonedemo.mov I always thought this sounded great. Ton of dough, but fun.

I was kind of joking, coz by nature of what it is, they sound pretty nasty