UNDERSTANDING DIY EFFECTS!!!

[petemoore]

yeah ive had a look at some of craig andertons books on amazon my next question was going to be what do people think of them but i guess there pretty highly rated...

i might try the experimental approach and get myself a breadboard and do some prototyping

(ill be of to maplin before work this weekend then)

I need to read about this also...
 That said, breadboarding and working with the components is what most all of the information was derived from in the first place [I'm certainly no genious enough to figure everything out just by working with it], ALOT of information about workings in a circuit is about this place...couple that with the many articles, and experimenting testing and just listening to what proposed changes a part value alterations ActuallY sounds like...a picture is worth a thousand words.
 Since I DO have alot of reading to do, I'll the the 'better' read persons enlighten you as to how valueable reading excellently written books on the subject are.
 I looked for CA's EPFM...or anything C.A. wrote, to no avail  :?
 The problem I haven't been able to overcome yet to any great degree, is the math...I think I skim more than I should, [probably because I have to try to read so densly into it just to find out if I can comprehend anything from it] sometimes the equational explanations really help get a grasp of what all the symbols and characters refer to...usually 'seeded' directly from a schematic related to the text.
 Some of it is just over my head, perhaps a great book would make my learning cieling lift more easily.

[tweaker]

Here are some other resources from the diy community that I have found helpful.     Big thanks to those who wrote them!

Cook Your Own Distortion
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~mpthak/Distortion/

Aron's simple mods page
http://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/mods.html

Building a DOD 250 Guitar Effects Pedal
http://www.rabbathrecordings.com/DOD250.htm

[gez]

ive build a penfold auto-waa it was a good article so i should check out some books by him amazon came up with 250+ articles under "penfold" so i may be looking through them for a while. he seems a bit of a writter

http://www.electronelec.co.uk/acatalog/Electron_Electronics_Circuits_and_projects_548.html

Right at the bottom is:

PRACTICAL ELECTRONIC MUSICAL EFFECTS UNITS

Also good ones by Penfold at the above site are:
OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER USERS HANDBOOK
POWER SUPPLY PROJECTS

This site also sells:

PRACTICAL OSCILLATOR CIRCUITS By A Flind

All are thoroughly recommended!

Another good babani one is Practical Filter Circuits by Owen Bishop.  All these guides are easy to understand and excellent at explaining what's going on.

[gez]

i dont surpose you know anywhere in britain that sells cheap 3PDT foot switches they seem hard to find ive been using a millenium baypass recently as i could only find 3PDT from wah-wah.co.uk

Could be that the cavalry are coming!

http://diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/viewtopic.php?t=33440&highlight=3pdt

[disto]

theres alot too look at im in the middle of exams at the moment and so im thinking i better put the theory on hold and just get to grips with the stuff i need to know for physics...

the little Babani books look nice easy cheap books i might check them out.

im trying to take a more theoretical look at circuits now i have looked at "cook your own distortion" distortion and i found that easy to understand and easy to relate to other projects

[jc]

Great introduction to electronics..

http://www.phy.davidson.edu/instrumentation/NEETS.htm