Fuzzbox, Distortion, Phaser, Chorus, Echo and other Guitar Effects Info

My metal box finishing tutorial (with over 38,000 views) has been posted on the front page of the Instructables site as a “featured” project:

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There is now a Support Forum for the projects based on the AMZ circuit boards. You can ask questions and request additional info by posting in the forum. Thanks!

AMZ Projects Forum

I have had the opportunity to play the Empress Compressor for a couple of weeks and would like to share some of my findings. The image above shows the Empress Compressor on the left and Dunlop compressor on the right that I used for my initial comparisons. Both are true bypass.

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The Electro-Harmonix 9 volt battery is the classic carbon zinc composition.

http://www.ehx.com/products/9v-battery

It just occurred to me that this month marks the 16th birthday of this web site! It is the oldest continuously available guitar fx site on the net. Some of you may remember the old days when it was hosted on the AOL homepages. When I first launched the site back in 1995, the only other effects site online was called the Leper’s Abode, and it has long since disappeared leaving this place as the geezer of fx web projects.

MY thanks and appreciation goes out to all of you who visit this site and build my projects and/or share my enthusiasm for DIY. I get great feedback and comments from people around the world and it is an enriching experience. It is your participation that makes this web site active and growing. Thanks again!

Check out some of my pictures from the Summer NAMM show at Harmony Central.

Who put the Fairchild 670 in the dishwasher!!!

Read on*: http://www.proaudioreview.com/article/35822

*Don’t try this with your stompboxes…

I saw this post in Craig Anderton’s tweets:

Create a “WTF box” for unknown hardware – that screw you found on the floor, etc. You never know when you’ll find where it came from.

I’ve got to do this… I have had a WTF plastic lid on my workbench for a long time, onto which I tossed all manner of screws and loose components, but it overflowed about a decade ago. I save wet-wipe boxes so I think I will get one of those and put all those loose items in it to tidy up my workbench.

I have had this battery pack project on the back burner for a long time, and after the good results I got with the Sanyo Pedal Juice, I decided to dust it off and build one to go along with my Sanyo box.
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