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1590B

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Dan Armstrong Green RingerVerified

Based on the Dan Armstrong Green Ringer· 9 other boards clone it

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Vero· 19×9
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Dan Armstrong, Octave

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Here's a more unusual effect. Playing chords it has a ring mod-ish quality to it, but played higher up the fretboard and using the neck pick up with tone control down gives a very prominent octave effect which sounds great. You'll notice I shared holes for the diodes and a couple of the resistors, this was just to keep the final width down so it will comfortably fit in a 1590B box. It should be easy enough to do unless you're using components with very thick leads. The resistors I used are Dale metal film and are quite thick but I still managed it fine in my build. I'd recommend socketing the transistors and diodes because you can get slightly different sounds by swapping them, Q2 is the transistor to experiment with and try germanium and silicon diodes to see which you prefer.

It is recommended that for the clearest octave effect you match the diodes as closely as possible for forward voltage, and some people have suggested that it is also worth matching the 47nF caps and the 10K and 22K resistors, although if you use 1% metal film they're probably going to be extremely close anyway.

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Schematic

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RefValueNormalizedTypeNotes
Resistors 10
×12K22.2kread from the layout by eye
×1560K560kread from the layout by eye
×118K18kread from the layout by eye
×16K26.2kread from the layout by eye
×1160K160kread from the layout by eye
×310K10kread from the layout by eye
×11M51.5Mread from the layout by eye
×222K22kread from the layout by eye
×268K68kread from the layout by eye
×147K47kread from the layout by eye
Capacitors 3
×347n47nread from the layout by eye
×1100n100nread from the layout by eye
×1100u100uelectrolytic; read from the layout by eye
Diodes 2
D1??value not given; legend: matched pair of Si, Ge or Schottky; read from the layout by eye
D2??value not given; legend: matched pair of Si, Ge or Schottky; read from the layout by eye
Transistors 3
Q12N50882N50882N5088 or 2N5089; read from the layout by eye
Q22N39062N3906read from the layout by eye
Q32N50882N50882N5088 or 2N5089; read from the layout by eye

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