Here's a distortion/overdrive pedal that I made with the intention of using as a booster that doesn't muddy heavily distorted rhythm tones. I think I succeeded, especially with the lowest Hard/Smooth pot, which controls the pedal's treble content and detail. Hard retains treble frequencies for rhythm and Smooth warms things up for lead. I need... Continue Reading →

I lied when I said I'd be working on my senior design project next. This is what I'll be working on next, but it's super-secretive.

So I recently got my hands on a super-rare and super-expensive optocoupler from an estate sale. And I promptly broke it. I was pretty excited about having the opportunity to make a compressor or wah pedal, so I got some LEDs and photodiodes to make an equivalent to the optocoupler. I ended up building this... Continue Reading →

I made a little boost pedal recently. It does much better as a lead boost than as a bass-tightening rhythm boost. It has a "sag" quality about it that just makes heavily distorted rhythm sound kind of flabby. There's a lower mid boost, and the "Chime" switch is named after a descriptive comment a friend... Continue Reading →

I have no idea why I didn't post this sooner, since it's been a few years. This is just a teaser for my senior design project while I search through my notes and hard drives for more pictures and demos. I still have the amp we made, so I'll have to demo that soon. From... Continue Reading →