Tools, Tones and Toys for Guitarists
Got a request for this one. This was originally designed by John Hollis and has since been modified by various folks in the DIY community. Like the latest version of the Little Angel chorus, it has a switch to do either vibrato or chorus tones. And the Mode switch allows for different speeds (Leslie, Normal, … Read more
Got a request for a flanger effect, and hadn’t seen many layouts for the John Hollis Ultra Flanger (that didn’t have tiny thin traces anyway), so I thought I’d give it a go. For the record: flangers are hard. I knew from the get go this one wouldn’t fit in a 1590B, but it will … Read more
Here’s a good, subtle sounding compressor. It uses a LDR and LED to control the limiting done by the effect. You can go the home-brew route and put a LDR and LED in some shrink tubing or there should be enough space to use a VTL5C2 or a NSL-32 photocoupler. Diodes I’ve listed as 1N34s … Read more