1590B
Dan Armstrong Green RingerVerified
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- Category
- Octave / Pitch
- Build
- Vero· 19×9
- Layout
- Verified · Tagboard Effects marks it as built and working
- Tags
- Dan Armstrong, Octave
From the post
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.
The layout is verified.
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Schematic
This is a board layout, a drawing of where each part goes, and the post may link the schematic it was drawn from. Open the layout at Tagboard Effects. No KiCad fragment has been drawn for this circuit yet.
Parts list 18 rows
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| Ref | Value | Normalized | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistors 10 | ||||
| ×1 | 2K2 | 2.2k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 560K | 560k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 18K | 18k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 6K2 | 6.2k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 160K | 160k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×3 | 10K | 10k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 1M5 | 1.5M | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×2 | 22K | 22k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×2 | 68K | 68k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 47K | 47k | read from the layout by eye | |
| Capacitors 3 | ||||
| ×3 | 47n | 47n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 100n | 100n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 100u | 100u | electrolytic; 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 | ||||
| Q1 | 2N5088 | 2N5088 | 2N5088 or 2N5089; read from the layout by eye | |
| Q2 | 2N3906 | 2N3906 | read from the layout by eye | |
| Q3 | 2N5088 | 2N5088 | 2N5088 or 2N5089; read from the layout by eye | |
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