8/25 The objective of this project is to build a guitar pedal that displays a visual waveform as you play guitar, detects the note or notes you’re playing, and also includes an HDMI output. Currently, I am not planning to manipulate the guitar audio(but may), however there will be some knobs to change the gain on the visualizer. The plan …

Video update revisiting the design theory behind our noise gates.   Original post below from 2021. This is specifically for the design of the “Noise Gator” and “The Paper Shredder”. This design theory additionally got implemented in “Speed Bumps”.   With distortion inevitably comes noise. The initial amount of noise cannot be heard at default volume with any good gear. …

9/19 4 a.m. At this point I am used to things crashing, breaking, going missing, due to Asher taking any opportunity to try to get a hold of anything new and drop it in some random location. My office, to say the least, is not baby proof. If the door is left open… breadboards get ripped apart (“Uncomfortably Numb” circuit), …

The Sweat Box is an octave up fuzz pedal, which is a design I honed in on years ago. I recreated this design on a breadboard and added in some additional filtering and diode selection switches. It sounds awesome, works great. So, I decided to turn the design into a product. Easy, right? 6/28- I built two prototypes, one for …

With every electronic build there is inevitable troubleshooting. Electronics by nature need to be perfect. Every process includes some kind troubleshooting and/or mental pain/anger/suffering depending on how you look at it. Sometimes you learn something new, most of the time it’s something dumb, and in the worst case sometimes the issue fixes itself. Depending on the complexity of the issue, …

Video update after over 3 years on social media.   Original post December 2019 After years of anti-digital marketing, not selling our products anywhere on the web or let alone even taking pictures, we have decided to shift our business strategy. Due to the small clientele in our newly discovered home of San Luis Obispo, CA and the current difficulty …