I’ve been tinkering around with this circuit on my breadboard. It’s the Fuzz Unit from Music Projects by R.A. Penfold, 1994.
Two parallel signal paths, a clipping style fuzz and an adjustable gain stage, are both fed into a voltage controlled amplifier (VCA). The fuzz goes to the VCA’s input and the gain stage goes to the VCA’s control pin.
You can find details about this project at Viva Analog. I went a little further by adding an envelope follower (based roughly on the envelope follower in the Lovetone Meatball) and a CV input that allows you to insert an external modulation source (ie. external LFO, sequencer, CV foot pedal, etc…).
My revised schematic and some sound clips are below… Continue reading
A very good friend from DIYstompboxes.com sent me this information.
It looks like a pretty flexible LED driver…
I built Dean Hazelwanter’s Holtek HT8950 Pitch Shifter / Robot Voice / Vibrato from the build notes at General Guitar Gadgets.
For fun, I used an optoisolator (VTL5C3) to control the 250K freq pot (P3).
