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Title: Know of a tremolo with 1 transistor for audio?
Post by: blackieNYC on November 09, 2017, 11:42:13 PM
I appear to have built some kind of modulator a couple years ago.  It has a dual op amp LFO, and just one transistor for the audio, and a vactrol.  Speed and depth controls. And too many wires.
Does anyone know of such a circuit? I didn't finish it, didn't document it, and I'm trying to figure it out. Hoping it is an established circuit. If I just made it up, I feel like I would have a schematic for it in the stack.
"What the heck is this thing?" Looking at your own project and drawing a complete blank - a pivotal milestone in one's pedalmaking to be sure. 
Title: Re: Know of a tremolo with 1 transistor for audio?
Post by: Plexi on November 09, 2017, 11:59:59 PM
Something like this?
http://sound.whsites.net/p49-f2.gif
Title: Re: Know of a tremolo with 1 transistor for audio?
Post by: reddesert on November 10, 2017, 12:59:21 AM
The Escobedo Wobbletron / Bigfoot Magnavibe uses a LED/LDR and a single transistor for audio.  The Wobbletron has a transistor LFO, but if you take a dual op amp LFO like in Culturejam's Shoot the Moon or Duovibe, and pair it with the Wobbletron output stage, that's close enough.