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Joe Davisson ShocktaveVerified
Based on the Joe Davisson Shocktave· 1 other board clones it
From the post
For some reason none of us got my CJ Downbox v2 layout to work. That was a bit of a mystery since the schematic was working correctly on my breadboard, but even though the layout did not have any errors, the flip-flop simply refused to work. I had taken the layout down a long ago and almost forgotten about the whole thing. Until a few nights ago. I was watching some DS9 episodes and skimmed through my ever growing schematics folders. I noticed this one. It's Joe Davisson's Shocktave, dated 2005. This time, as we had one utter failure with the similar design, i decided to build it first and post it if it would work. And what do you know. It works. Low octave fuzz not completely unlike the MXR Bluebox, but with a lot lower parts count. Tracking goes wild very easily, but you can tune the mix control to have quite massive and cool low octave walls with this circuit. Output level doesn't feel luggish, so for all of you who enjoy dirty and noisy low octaves, here you go.
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 16 rows
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| Ref | Value | Normalized | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistors 6 | ||||
| ×2 | 1M | 1M | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×4 | 10K | 10k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 220K | 220k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 4.7M | 4.7M | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 47K | 47k | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×2 | 100K | 100k | read from the layout by eye | |
| Capacitors 4 | ||||
| ×5 | 100nF | 100n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 470nF | 470n | read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 1uF | 1u | electrolytic; read from the layout by eye | |
| ×1 | 10uF | 10u | electrolytic; read from the layout by eye | |
| Diodes 2 | ||||
| D1 | 1N4148 | 1N4148 | read from the layout by eye | |
| D2 | 1N5817 | 1N5817 | read from the layout by eye | |
| Transistors 1 | ||||
| ×5 | 2N5089 | 2N5089 | all transistors; read from the layout by eye | |
| Potentiometers 3 | ||||
| Gain | B2K | B2k | Potentiometer | read from the layout by eye |
| Mix | A1M | A1M | Potentiometer | read from the layout by eye |
| Volume | A100K | A100k | Potentiometer | read from the layout by eye |
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