Bronx Cheer Vero Layout/Build Report

[tcobretti]

I built this one yesterday, and was not impressed.  Thru my amp it sounded muddy and not very interesting.  On a lark I took it to my cousin's and we ran the same guitar thru the pedal into his amp, and it was very cool.  My cousin played with it for half an hour at least.  It's not a swiss army knife; it does one weird thing very well.  It will certainly make an appearance on a recording of mine at some point in the future.  It was at least as cool on bass as guitar.

Interesting note: You could control the shape of the envelope with the guitar's volume control.  Turn down the volume and the "gate" closes more quickly.  Turn down the tone and the pitch of the gate changes.  Pretty weird once you start messing with it.

Sorry there are no sound clips, but I can't record where I am, and I was gonna link to Tim E's mp3 but his site has exceeded it's bandwidth.

[MartyMart]

It's a fun little circuit

Here's a sound sample :
http://aronnelson.com/userfiles/Bronx%20Cheer%2301.mp3

MM.

[jmusser]

For me, the Bronx Cheer was only so-so with my set up. The Jinx ended up having more of the sound of the Bronx Cheer sound sample, then the Bronx Cheer did. This may be another one of those circuits that do better with hotter pick ups. I haven't read where too many people have built Tim's Jinx circuit, but it's a sleeper in my estimation. It has a lot of the Bronx fizz to it, like the Bronx times 10!

[KerryF]

What is this?  A noise gate?  A distortion?  And Marty, your sound clip isnt working for me.  Thanks.

[tcobretti]

It's a really werid fuzz that sound like it's got a autowah in there somewhere.

[Jamforthelamb]

Would it be OK to substitute some on-hand diodes I have for the ones asked for in this layout ?
I may breadboard it anyway just for giggles.

God bless,
JFTL

[tcobretti]

My guess is that if they are silicon diodes, it's worth a try, but if they are Germanium (or Schottky) it probly won't work right.  However, you should certainly try it; I am not anywhere close to an expert.