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PRE-GAINPOST-GAINLEVELFREQUENCY

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Capitalist Death Cult Just. Give. Up. V2Verified

Based on the Capitalist Death Cult Just. Give. Up. V2

Category
Fuzz
Controls
Pre-gain · Post-gain · Level · Frequency
Build
Vero· 19×15· 22 cuts, 8 links
Layout
Verified · Dirtbox Layouts marks it as built and working
Tags
Capitalist Death Cult, Chris Stelloh, Death by Audio, Fuzz, Noise, Ringmod

From the post

Another contribution by Chris. This time he made some improvements and addons on a rare and wild Death by Audio circuit. Tone houndz...stay away! Chris says: I don't know if this warrants its own post but I wanted to show it to you anyway since I was the one who verified your purple card drawing.

Since I built that up I wasn't happy with the bleed through in bypass that sometimes happens with the LM567. So I used the old "millennium bypass" trick of adding a mosfet to handle the LED switching so that you can use only a DPDT for true bypass with an indicator light. THEN I used the now-vacant set of poles on a 3PDT to connect/disconnect the power supply to the LM567 when the circuit is bypassed. So NO NOISE! I also added the master volume, because if ANY circuit needs it, it is this loud beast. Then I put the frequency pot (which I cut down to 10k) on a switched expression jack so that you can get foot-controlled crazy pitch-wah sounds with a standard TRS expression pedal like an inexpensive m-audio or nektar controller. Anything more than 15-20k of resistance for the frequency control just takes you into slower and slower chopped/tremolo territory. And the 10k pot still allows for some of that in the toe up/CCW position and all of the pitch control as you turn the knob up/put the treadle down.

I added a toggle to change the resistance on the frequency sweep - this allows for a low range and high range mode on the frequency. Since most expression pedals have 10k pots, I wanted to keep the frequency pot at 10k too so that the sweep matches whether you are using the knob or an exp pedal.

Schematic

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  • CLR (bottom row O): resistor printed 'CLR' with no value
RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 7
×610k10kread from the layout by eye
×1330k330kread from the layout by eye
×1100k100kread from the layout by eye
×12k22.2kread from the layout by eye
×156k56kread from the layout by eye
×16k86.8kread from the layout by eye
CLR??LED resistor, value not given; read from the layout by eye
Capacitors 5
×2220pF220pread from the layout by eye
×147nF47nread from the layout by eye
×8100nF100nsix film, two ceramic; read from the layout by eye
×310uF10uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
×2100uF100uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
Diodes 2
D11N58171N5817read from the layout by eye
D21N9141N914read from the layout by eye
Transistors 1
Q12N70002N7000MOSFET; read from the layout by eye
ICs 2
IC1TL072TL072read from the layout by eye
IC2LM567LM567read from the layout by eye
Potentiometers 4
Pre-gainB1MB1MPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
Post-gainB1MB1MPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
LevelA100KA100kPotentiometerread from the layout by eye
FrequencyB10KB10kPotentiometerwired through the EXP jack switch contacts; read from the layout by eye
Switches 1
Range SwSPDTSPDTon/on toggle; read from the layout by eye