You Tube Tutorials – Tone Bender MKI & Echoplex
Here’s some interesting youtube videos for you. First up – a couple of videos on how to build your own Tone Bender MKI replica: Echoplex restoration:
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Fred Briggs – Dual Band Vibrato
Here is a new design from myself. As far as I know it’s a concept that hasn’t been explored before (Although the Catalinbread Harmonic Mesmeriser uses a similar technique with an LFO running with opposite phase outputs to drive dual tremolo/vibrato circuits). Essentially the signal is split into two parallel paths – one path for treble and … Read more
Death by Audio – Robot
More Death by Audio, this time it’s the Robot pitch shifter. My description? It’s crazy. Words cannot explain this thing, just have a listen to it (more ProGuitarShop, are there any pedals these guys haven’t had?): Here’s the description from the Death by Audio website: “The Robot is a low fidelity 8 bit pitch transposer … Read more
Bigfoot FX – MagnaVibe
[Note – this is the newer Bigfoot Magnavibe, without the tremolo switch – Note] Now here’s an interesting one inspired by the great old Magnatone amps. I really like the sound of this thing from Bearfoot FX, here’s their description (taken from the Bigfoot FX website): “The Magnavibe was inspired by the early 1960’s vibrato … Read more
Lovestuff – Porkies = Lovepedal Believe
Here is another lovepedal wonder. A gut shot of the early “Believe” pedal. As you can see by comparing the gut shot to the PCB from general guitar gadgets; it’s a Dan Armstrong Green Ringer octave clone…. You can find the General Guitar Gadgets project here. The Green Ringer is a great little octave circuit. … Read more