So many leftover parts... looking for a new project

[ghostsauce]

Heya, I recently built a dr boogey with the help of the awesome people here and I'm loving it.  When I ordered my parts, I made sure to get double or triple the components so that I'd be able to pickup a new project relatively easy.  Problem is I can't decide what I want to build.. I'm beginning to scour the internet seriously, but while I do I figured I'd pick your brains.  What I'm looking for is fun stuff that I might actually use.  Like a phaser, chorus, tremolo, or even weird stuff like a sitar emulator I saw posted here a while back. (Still considering that).   Help please!

[jkokura]

It depends on the parts you ordered extra of, but if you got extra Caps and Resistors, those are needed in pretty much all projects. However, the Boogie uses a bunch of J201's, and no IC's or other major componants, so if you're looking for something with just the parts you have, that might be harder. Perhaps there's a few J201 circuits out there, I would use that as your major search element.

However, if you want a phaser, chorus, trem or others you'll have to look for schematics and PCB's. Check out the Link for "layouts" at the top of the page. The search function works great to help you find some potential projects. Looking through the Pictures thread can be a great idea starter sometimes.

Otherwise, I'd recommend looking through the PCB manufacturers websites. Look at Tonepad, GGG, BYOC, Madbean, OLC, ROG, and any other company you can find online that supplies PCB's. If you're like me, you'll appreciate working with a good PCB. There are soooo many different project options out there. Hopefully you'll find something that you don't need to buy many more parts than you have, but chances are, you're like the rest of us - adicted and riding the line of our Credit card at Mouser, Smallbear, PPP and Effects Connection (the major parts sources if you didn't know).

Thing is, your question isn't really easy to answer. Ask us about specific projects and we'll be happy to help.

jacob

[Brymus]

Yeah with the J201s you can build any number of amp emultors in the same catagory as the Dr Boogie.

[ghostsauce]

Huh,  I didn't realize there was other amp emulators.  I'll have to check that out.

Also thanks for the info.  I guess I'm looking for something to spark my interest.  There are tons of pedals that would be cool to have but I'm trying put together a few maybe's. I'll definitely have to buy more parts anyways, mostly enclosure and jacks & stuff hopefully, I suppose I'm resigned to that and not really worried about what parts I'll have to buy.

[differo]

as I recall bsiab uses j201, otherwise I would recommend sans amp it uses 4 dual opamp (I find any working fine with it) and sounds really nice. Versatile dist/sim unit.
for modulation effects you often need some specific components such as photo res, spec. IC's or whatnot (considering that you would like to build something with leftovers)

[petemoore]

  If I had the Jfet urge like I used to...
  You have:
  Buffer
  Booster
  Mu
  And anything that goes inbetween, V-dividers, Frequency shapers.
  Although the Boogie and BSIAB are reportedly nice [I had a 2mu dealy voiced up...]
  GEO has fine Jfet studies, combined with Data Sheet, and a Jfet booster board: the capabilities, limitations and parameters that matter can be fully understood, if not...back to the board !
  Just Jfetting for the sake of Jfets might get you a 1/2 boog sound [trickier IME than a Fuzzing Distorter], that when added to more Jfet[s becomes a 3/4 boogie tone. IIUC most boog and BSIAB users throttle something back a bit.
  I mean, since you have the full on tone, and time to play with Jfets, you can go find something written, or...write your own !
  Reason for suggesting it is because it's easy to just find some other thing and clone it, but the easy isn't always that easy, 10 clones to 1 masterpiece...
  So as to say they all get close, then you tune/tweek from there, I like the suggestion of Jfet for Jfet, instead of Jfet for Tube...Basically only takes two of them to get the distortion started.
  Once the gain/frequency thing-understanding is semi-down-pat, tweeking up an anything you want becomes a task involving more experimentation, a perfected circuit won't pop out like when starting with a schematic, I'm not sure which is the preferred method, but the road less travelled gets suggested because the beaten path is what it is. 
  I wondered what say 8 Jfets set to not overgain [possibly having various supply V's], in a row, totalling the gain of a typical 4 jfet high gain pedal would sound like, the approach being to have each Jfet contribute to waveshaping, but to a smaller than ''typical'' amount. This might end up looking a bit like a Dual Recto tube amp [long string of stages], but with Jfets which have helped you develop your own ''map'' [share schematic if you get any useful findings?

[doc_drop]

Check out the amp based projects ROG has.

http://www.runoffgroove.com/articles.html

I built almost all of them, and they are all good to great.