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pwm layout?

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:19 pm
by ifeellikeatourist
So I was searching for layouts and ran across this at [url]insonicbloomsfx.livejournal.com[/url]:
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All that is said about it is that it makes your guitar sound like a gameboy...no video or sound clips or anything, but, that's got to sound awesome, right? I'm dying to try it just to find out. Just thought I'd share...if I get this breadboarded anytime soon, I'll share the results.

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:04 pm
by Scruffie
The PWM (Pulse width modulator) is a Tim Escobedo design from here http://folkurban.com/Site/PWM-715.html

There used to be sound clips on his old geocities page which has since gone down but with some searching some copies exist.

Edit: Found a copy of the sound sample http://www.jiggawoo.eclipse.co.uk/guita ... ts/pwm.mp3

You can leave out the 386 from the front and put your own fuzz if you want, it's just there to drive the whole thing.

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 6:30 pm
by ifeellikeatourist
Awesome, thanks! Can"t wait to try this!

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:08 pm
by kosta
Sounds a bit like a Synthmonger Pulsemonger. He's definitely got some squarewave PWM science inside those boxes.

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:58 am
by Jero
Scruffie wrote:You can leave out the 386 from the front and put your own fuzz if you want, it's just there to drive the whole thing.

Well I'm going to have to get someone to help me with that some time soon :idea:

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:57 pm
by Scruffie
Jero wrote:
Scruffie wrote:You can leave out the 386 from the front and put your own fuzz if you want, it's just there to drive the whole thing.

Well I'm going to have to get someone to help me with that some time soon :idea:


Sounds like a plan... with a high gain glitchy fuzz infront I bet you'd get some awesomely interesting sounds out of it...

Should be pretty simple to do though, infact you could just build the PWM section in a seperate box and then run whatever fuzz pedal you own that you like infront of it (Although that would require turning two pedals on at once to get it to work)

I can probably whip up a breadboard layout if you want for testing purposes.

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 4:38 pm
by ifeellikeatourist
I would be up for a breadboard layout!

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:21 am
by Jero
Sounds great! I will have to try many things with this. I've seen before where it was mentioned that you could use the 386 section alone, but I never thought to do it with the fun 40106 section.

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:58 pm
by Scruffie
Haven't checked it but looks okay at first glance.

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Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:25 am
by Jero
I really want to start tinkering with this soon. Need to get my w.mammoth built, then I'll go to this. The Dial Up Mod is another circuit I'm interested in. From what I've heard, it works best with a fuzz (no complaints there), rather than alone,etc. Getting a combination of those going would surely be fun.

Re: pwm layout?

Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 10:00 pm
by fuzzmax
HI there......I'm trying to do this device and as I am pretty much a noob in this domain, I was wondering 1) where is the output of the board and 2) as C3 seems to be an electrolytic cap, just want to be sure that the neg leg connects to the ground. For the wiring, i followed the beavis audio stompboxe wiring but nothing's working. it pretty much pop when I manipulate the board but no sounds as it supposed to be. Thanx for your help!! (I followed the first vero layout)