Electro Harmonix The Worm / Madbean Charlatan

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 A vintage big box The Worm with some useful improvemnts and mods by Madbean. The power section have been reworked by a voltage doubler and a voltage regulator for 9v to 15v operation. An internal volume trimpot is added. And the unknown original vactrols is replaced by a trio of LDR/LED pair. Schematic and more … Read more

Madbean Headtrip 2

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Once again, a guest appearance. Chris at CDC was brave enough to dabbling with some Spin FV-1 processors. Yes, these are SMD parts there is several vendors online that sell adapter boards.  This one is VERIFIED.   Since I started building effects in 2020, there has been a “level up” step I’ve been avoiding. As … Read more

Earthquaker Devices Hummingbird V2

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 New Year, might make Modulation Monday a thing. We’ll see. Anyway, here’s the EQD Hummingbird V2. It’s derived from the Vox Repeat Percussion and now updated to use the 2N6027 in place of the obsolete 2N2646. There’s also a couple other improvements from the earlier version so a new layout seemed like a good idea. … Read more

PEDALPCB: Pendulum Harmonic Tremolo

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I don’t know much about the origins of this one, as PedalPCB don’t seem to have listed any information on it (at least that I can find anyway).   The Pendulum is a Harmonic Tremolo, meaning the signal is split in two paths, each with either a high or low pass filter; they’re modulated separately and then summed back together for … Read more