Archive for July, 2007

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Spring Reverb

Spring Reverb Layout

G. Forrest Cook designed this spring reverb and his online publication is on solorb.com. Chris/stobiepole wanted to do this one and his prototype appears above.

It sounds really clean and natural…almost too good to be a spring reverb. But when you whack the reverb springs – *POW* – you get dub explosions.

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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Green Ringer

Green Ringer Layout

Once there was a friendly comparison of green ringer layouts on Aron’s forum and I laid out a smaller version than this one. Coming back to it recently, I decided to add some space and show off the symmetry of this circuit. tonepad.com is the source of the schematic.

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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Capacitors: Math

For some time, I have been working on a description of some of the math behind equations that we use for passive filters. I do this kind of writing to check my own understanding, and then I share it in the hope of finding my own mistakes and possibly helping others. … more …

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