What is on your workbench Tinkerers?

[Nick]

'Waste not, want not'

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[walkingtiger]

Fine selection! Would love to hear it

sounds like a Tone Bender :)

Damn, quite a rude one at that! Loving the tuning you did, extra spitty and gated. Can tell from the recording it probably has a nice spongy feel to it and you need to dig in a bit. Can’t wait to see it housed up in the wedge, thank you for sharing!

[Arcane]

[dancehall]

Baby tinkerer here, putting together my first pedal, a Big Muff kit. If I don’t fuck this up too bad, it’s on to stripboard!

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[NOS7]

I purchased a Burns Buzzaround clone. It’s ok, kinda boring and metal sounding, even though it’s got Ac125 germanium’s in it. It has a master volume.

Anyway, I ordered NKT213s for it and have been experimenting, and it does sound better - so this is my first foray into messing with circuits.

Question - why would a BB clone have and IC chip in it? What could that control?

[caiofilipini]

Probably a charge pump turning the +9V coming into the pedal into -9V, because PNP transistors (most germaniums) have reverse polarity.

[NOS7]

Thanks for that. Just checked out your videos and the mk1 and 2 sound amazing. Are you still making stuff?

[simonm]

Question - why would a BB clone have and IC chip in it? What could that control?

if there's a socket for an external power supply, yeah it's a charge pump as caiofilipini says (a MAX1044 maybe?), or it could also be a buffer.

[NOS7]

You’re close - it’s a TC1044s!

[caiofilipini]

Thanks for that. Just checked out your videos and the mk1 and 2 sound amazing. Are you still making stuff?

I missed this message, sorry about that! And thank you for the kind words, I'm glad to hear you dig them! I sure am still building.