NEED HELP W/ WORST DISTORTION EVER

[iainpunk]

so my friend told me he didn't expect me to go through with it and that he doesn't want the pedal, guess ill keep it when its finished.

It should catch BBC !

yes, there's nothing worse than the bbc, worst news ever, more biased than a super hot fuzz face

My humble suggestions:
- Emphasizes discordant harmonics
- Out of tune with single notes, unintelligible noise with chords
- Hides characteristics of the instrument and all dynamics of phrasing and basically makes every guitar sound like 1$ Casio synthesizer with no key sensitivity
- Ear fatigue after one minute

so to sum it up, you want me to add a ring modulator to the distortion 

Use an lm386 to play radio 

and use a piezo disc to pick it up from the speaker for a lofi/feedback effect, hmmm, yes

Mixing in a 60Hz drone oscillator could be useful.

i think you mean 50 Hz, i live in europe

il design it to require 3 different types of battery, a 9V, AAA and A
and my plan to make it use only one chip is also out the window, im going full in with 3 chips, 7 or 8 BJT's a bunch of diodes,

cheers, Iain

[EBK]

Mixing in a 60Hz drone oscillator could be useful.

i think you mean 50 Hz, i live in europe

Add a toggle to switch between 50 and 60 Hz.  Label it Marshall/Fender. 

[11-90-an]

Add a jumper from +9v to gnd. Easy unplayable pedal.

[duck_arse]

am I too late? I've got my 2 cents here. the worst distortion ever? build the cleanest clean boost you can possibly make, and then label it "distortion".

or build the sickest fuzz you can, and label it distortion. on the boost, the distortion knob won't go high enough, and on the fuzz, it won't go low enough.

[kraal]

old school layout with no enclosure

[kraal]

Some more ideas:

- no power supply filter caps
- Y5V capacitors
- carbon composition resistors
- old op amps with popcorn (burst) noise

[ThermionicScott]

Mixing in a 60Hz drone oscillator could be useful.

i think you mean 50 Hz, i live in europe

Add a toggle to switch between 50 and 60 Hz.  Label it Marshall/Fender. 

Even better: make it auto-detect the line frequency from the wall wart (a noisy crappy power supply is a given, right?), and then modulate the wrong one into your signal.  Could be interesting when it interacts with pickup hum...   

[Steben]

Opamp distortion like Guvnor. 680R bias resistors >>mid hump >> boost >> mis-biased bjt stage > 220n cap to ground > output   

what about tiny output cap with low resistor to ground, aka let the highs and hiss go through?

[Steben]

Mixing in a 60Hz drone oscillator could be useful.

i think you mean 50 Hz, i live in europe

Add a toggle to switch between 50 and 60 Hz.  Label it Marshall/Fender. 

You are really upping the mojo here. I see profit!

[kraal]

wire input jack to output jack directly, no footswitch, and label it as always on transparent distortion

[dschwartz]

Boost 2khz to make ears bleed

[willienillie]

Mixing in a 60Hz drone oscillator could be useful.

i think you mean 50 Hz, i live in europe

Add a toggle to switch between 50 and 60 Hz.  Label it Marshall/Fender. 

Or generate 60Hz internally, and let that mix with 50Hz from power supply and guitar pickups.  Lovely!

[iainpunk]

Boost 2khz to make ears bleed

i have a low gain fuzz that has a 30-ish dB 1kHz boost to tear your head off, like an HM-2 but on steroids. its one of my favourites tho, it really pushes amps into pure grinding bliss.

i think that a boost like that is more a "so bad its good" kind of idea.

cheers, Iain

[slashandburn]

Weirdly enough not so long ago I was pondering adapting the "useless box" into stompbox form as a prank Xmas present for a mate of mines. Never made it past the "hey that the best stupid idea I've had for a while" stage into any sort planning though and I really don't think I could really be arsed with the ammount of work involved.

[PRR]

> arsed with the amount of work involved.

25 bucks (to get free shipping) and done. (*)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B01K4UYZ56/
And you can see in the Amazon pictures that the actual gizmo is a mass produced unit, probably wholesales 2/$ in caseload lots. There's more cost and work in the wood box.


(*) offer may differ elsewhere

[ThermionicScott]

Weirdly enough not so long ago I was pondering adapting the "useless box" into stompbox form as a prank Xmas present for a mate of mines. Never made it past the "hey that the best stupid idea I've had for a while" stage into any sort planning though and I really don't think I could really be arsed with the ammount of work involved.[/youtube]

Maybe the pedal could switch to a bad-sounding clean tone some time after it's been activated?  Or it could randomly switch from one bad-sounding distortion to another?

I'm really keen on the idea of this thing not only sounding terrible, but not behaving in a consistent way at all. 

[Fancy Lime]

I have been pondering a fuzz with a built in AM radio receiver a few years ago but never went through with it. Add an LFO that sweeps the carrier frequency or just set it fixed to Radio Yerevan.

Andy

[slashandburn]

Totally Paul. Its doable in a wooden box with a toggle switch. Im sure similar kits probably inspired the idea. I think seeing it as "too much work" stemmed from imagining having the lid and hinge somewhat invisible, using a standard footswitch and having the "response" somewhat randomised so that you might not even notice the mechanical arm if you weren't watching closely!

"Pedal sounds great but for some reason it keeps turning itself off just as I'm really getting into something, I can't see any pattern to it, sometimes 30 seconds sometimes 4 minutes"

[garcho]

only clean output!

[bean]

Maybe try plugging into a brick. If it doesn't work, you can always hit yourself with the brick.