Combo Circuit

[jmusser]

I built the Cook Book Fuzz the other day, and there was a lot of discussion on how to add a second stage or whatever since there were 3 left over op amps in the LM324N quad op amp chip. I wanted to build Tim Escobedo's Octave Blender, and saw that it used 3 op amps. I decided to put the two together in a single circuit. I'm calling it the "Octave Cooker". It's slightly modified Cook Book Fuzz with Tim's standard Octup Blender circuit scabbed on. I used EGC109 (like 1N270s) diodes instead of the 1N5817 Schottkys in the Blender circuit. First of all, Tim's Octup Blender is sweet. You can add in as much octave up signal to the standard clean signal as you please, or for extra weirdness, put no clean tone in at all, and just octave. Next, you can run the Blender through the Cook Book circuit to have the octave drive the fuzz. The LEDs make the Cook Book fuzz section pretty crunchy, and the 1 meg that was suggested for the "Depth" pot helped the gain quite a bit. I added SPDT switches in, so the you could have the Octave only, Cooker only, or Octave & Cooker together. The circuit is at  boxes-r-us@www.msnusers.com/octavecooker.jpg  Let me know what you think of it, because it's my first shot at doing anything like this. The switching I've done is probably not the ultimate route to go, but it gets the job done. I used VR voltage off the splitter of the Cookbook Fuzz. Tim's Blender used a 22uf cap in the splitter instead of the 10uf, but it seemed to work fine.

[jmusser]

The first link wet to an E Mail, so lets try this one http://www.msnusers.com/boxes-r-us/shoebox.msnw?action=Showphoto&PhotoID1