Guitar Synth Update - NOW WITH BONUS TUBE SCREAMER CONTENT!

[soffa]

I posted a while back about a project I've been working on:

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=97487.0

To recap, it is a semi-modular mono guitar synth. It has a few (mono) voices that are derived from the input and one VCO that is driven by a Harry Bissel P-V converter board. It has a ring modulator, a few envelope generators and LFOs, two VCFs and two VCOs. Since the post above I added an amplified clean guitar signal and a tube screamer clipping amp to have some non-mono signals to process (and so I can interest more than four people on here by making it into a glorified TS-9). In tribute to my first foray into synthy-pedal building, a microsynth clone,  I call it the "macrosynth".

Anyways - I finally finished putting this mess into a proper enclosure:

http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/Schematics-etc/macrosynth.jpg.html

The bottom rows are 1/8" jacks for patching but I do have a normaled signal path so you can play it without any patch cords. There are two expression pedal inputs and a hold footswitch for the VCO.

Here's a gut shot:

http://www.aronnelson.com/gallery/main.php/v/Schematics-etc/guts_1.jpg.html

If anyone wants to have what amounts to a very fancy octave pedal, really likes outboard wiring and has a lot of money to spare - build a clone!

I'm working on a demo video fr the Youtubes but that might take a few more years at the rate I'm going...

- soffa

[Marcvv]

Wow! Impressive!

[Processaurus]

Simply outrageous!!

[deadastronaut]

 

[Mark Hammer]

It's bee-yoo-tiful.

Certainly got a volume purchase discount on the jacks, pots, and knobs.

[soffa]

I got a "deal' on 190K 1/8" shaft pots - I think I paid $0.15 each for them. I decided that I could put up with the 1/8" shafts and wierd value for that price. Knobs for 1/8" shaft pots are pretty cheap and easy to find on eBay as well. If I were buying all of that stuff at new prices I probably would have been a lot more stingy!