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Distortion pedal circuit features low power and soft clipping

Read the first article in this series: Pedal effect circuit design: Getting started. Low-power, tube-like pedal effects can now be yours with a simple JFET circuit. The LSK489, in a common-source ...
MusicRadar

“I’ve always loved this kind of hard-clipping circuit as it’s really responsive to playing dynamics”: Great Eastern FX finds stash of super-rare NOS germanium diodes ...

Take three rare Soviet-era germanium diodes, add a band-pass filter, and there you have it, the recipe for a limited edition hard-clipping distortion like no other, the Distortion Filter D312A When ...
Electronic Design

Avoid Clipping in Emitter Follower with AC-Coupled Resistive Load

An engineer asked me for help when he encountered what appeared to be strange phenomenon while testing a prototype circuit in the system. He saw “mysterious” clipping distortion of the signal at the ...
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“Carefully designed to add masterfully crafted saturation, distortion, and tone”: Supercool Pedals unveils The Barstow Bat, a deluxe Rat-inspired distortion with 3-band EQ ...

Supercool Pedals is aptly named, with the Canadian guitar effects pedal company specialising in smart twists on pedalboard classics. It’s done Big Muffs, rolled up Small Clone-style BBD-driven ...
Electronic Design

Avoid Clipping in Emitter Follower with AC-Coupled Resistive Load (.PDF Download)

An engineer asked me for help when he encountered what appeared to be strange phenomenon while testing a prototype circuit in the system. He saw “mysterious” clipping distortion of the signal at the ...