Conrad / Apollo Buzz Box & Volume Expander - schematic fix

Started by Rob Strand, March 10, 2019, 12:29:52 AM

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Rob Strand

The other day while poking around with some old 60's fuzzes for this thread,
https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=122048.0

I realized the schematic kicking around for the following two pedals has an error.  The schematic shows one less resistor and one less cap than the PCB pics:
http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/conrad/buzzbox
http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/apollo/843

After a bit of research and tracing I managed to fix the schematic,





These units are kind of like a two knob version of the (3 knob) UMI Buzz Box & Volume Expander. 
Lucifer's trip has a corrected schematic for this one,



You can see one of my fixes to the Conrad/Apollo follows Lucifer's trip's fix for the cap connection.  The other fix, which explains the missing cap and resistor, makes the Conrad/Apollo like the UMI with the Contour control set to one extreme.


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