Free Electronic Circuit Design
Introduction to Reverberation Before getting into the design of DIY reverb pedal circuit, lets see the concept of reverberation first. Real reverberation happens in a performance chamber when the walls and every object inside reflects the sound back and forth. As the sound bounces back and forth in three dimensional space, the reflections creates more and more complex pattern. The […]
Read more
Speed and Memory Size Optimization When developing digital signal processor for Deepstomp, we employs a cheap 32-bit processor without floating point unit. Consequently, we have to optimize all computation in fix point math. The most important effect, especially for electric guitar, is distortion effect. It is simulated using sigmoid or sigmoid-like functions such arctan, tanh, or some others. Those functions […]
Read more
DIY Multi-Effect Pedal and Today’s Advanced Electronics Digital DIY multi-effect pedal is an expensive things in the past, but the advance of today’s digital electronics brings new hopes for many things. Because now there are many choices for low cost and high performance DSP microcontrollers, now I think we can implement a DIY multi-effect pedal with much lower cost than […]
Read more
9 DIY Digital Effect Pedal Platform List To start researching on DIY (do-it-yourself) digital effect pedal for the next project, let’s see the list first. Take a look at some popular platforms to compare their specifications and prices, here are some: UNO – Electrosmash’s pedalSHIELD UNO MEGA – Electrosmash’s pedalSHIELD MEGA DUE – Electrosmash’s pedalSHIELD DUE Electrosmash’s Pedal Pi Openmusiclabs’s […]
Read more
To get various characteristic of an auto wah/quack effect, we need a flexible control of the envelope detection characteristic. Some playing styles need slow attack but fast decay, but some others don’t. Employing the envelope detector circuit presented in our previous article [Ref 1], but with some modification to make it single supply operation. Here we present the improvement of […]
Read more
Introduction to Automatic Wah/Quack Effect Automatic wah/quack effect gives a similar effect with the manual version (reference [1]), but without the need of any pedal to manually control the frequency/tonal sweep. This automation is made possible by detecting the envelope signal of the instruments audio signal, and use it to control the filter to produce center frequency sweep, producing audio […]
Read more
A type of guitar effect pedal that produce “wah”- or “quack”-like sound, which is similar to the crying sound of a baby is called wah-wah pedal, or just wah pedal. The effect is produced by filtering the musical instrument through a band-pass filter, which the center of its peak frequency is swept from low to high, mimicking audio tonal transition […]
Read more
Introduction: What is Fold-Back Distortion? I was introduced to a term of “fold-back distortion” in the past by an article from an old book which I forget what the title is, but the book contains schematic diagrams of many circuits collected from old publication of Elektor magazine (www.elektor.com). The article presents the circuit’s schematic diagram and how it works. I […]
Read more