Vintage Smallbear article? Same SD?

[John Lyons]

Came across this after reading the treble booster post.
http://www.schematicsforfree.com/archive/file/Audio/Musical/Circuits/Make%20a%20guitar%20sound%20like%20a%20banjo%20or%20mandolin.pdf
Here's another: http://www.schematicsforfree.com/archive/file/Audio/Musical/Circuits/Guitar%20Sound%20Effect%20-%20U-Pick-It.pdf
I assume this is the same SD as smallbear...?
Is it just me or are the old illustrations way better that the ones these days?

John

[stm]

If it were from the same Steve Daniels they should be offered as kits at the Cave!
Both look like nice projects.

[smallbearelec]

Yes. Those were among a bunch of articles I did to pay tuition at SUNY New Paltz. At the time, the magazines still had large readerships and could pay well. I never had to wait tables after I sold the first piece, and I graduated with virtually no debt, which I know is next to impossible to do today.

What Electronics Illustrated called the Guitar Tripler (I called it the Triple Treble Box) was really good for ear-splittingly sharp treble. I have it on my list to try again, now that I know a little better what I'm doing. The 2N1414 transistors in it are listed as a driver with a gain in the 50s. The GT is probably a good circuit for all of the low-gain-but-low-leakage stuff that I have around the Cave. Can get to it immediately, because I am busy re-working the Wild Mouse. But it will happen.

SD

[analogmike]

Wow that's awesome!!! Did you do the drawings too?
Looks like you were doing DIY boxes even before Craig Anderton. Very cool stuff.

[Apehouse]

Yes. Those were among a bunch of articles I did to pay tuition at SUNY New Paltz.

SD

Wow, New Paltz! Had a blast climbing at the Gunks back in the mid-80's. Fun place. Must have been a good place to go to school. Misquitoes were horrible as i recall tho.
-greg