Nick Greer - Ghetto Stomp

TheLemon · Post by **TheLemon** » 06 Jan 2009, 05:47

Cool post!
I wish more people drew up layouts like that

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » 06 Jan 2009, 05:58

Yet another modded Electra?

patafix · Post by **patafix** » 06 Jan 2009, 07:15

Looks indeed like an Electra with an input gain control, a volume and a tone pots.

RnFR · Post by **RnFR** » 06 Jan 2009, 10:19

is that another greer box?

seems like he and that lovetone guy get lotsa miles out of that little electra circuit.

briggs · Post by **briggs** » 06 Jan 2009, 11:34

Topic title edited for clarity. The Electra is worth playing with; I've come up with a few interesting sounding devices based upon it

Emanuele · Post by **Emanuele** » 06 Jan 2009, 14:45

something I've never liked of the electra is that's too much sensible on the input, use a buffer in front or push it with a booster and it will start to fart out...much better if you add some kind of resistor to ground after the input cap, with 2M2 from the collector a 390k to ground works well to me..if you loose some gain a bypass cap on the emitter res will do a good job too.

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » 06 Jan 2009, 15:54

briggs wrote:Topic title edited for clarity. The Electra is worth playing with; I've come up with a few interesting sounding devices based upon it

Me, too. I came up with a fuzz circuit that is two Electra's in series minus all the clipping diodes:
http://www.forrestwhitesides.com/node/56

The Electra is a great little building block.

RnFR · Post by **RnFR** » 06 Jan 2009, 16:14

culturejam wrote:
briggs wrote:Topic title edited for clarity. The Electra is worth playing with; I've come up with a few interesting sounding devices based upon it
Me, too. I came up with a fuzz circuit that is two Electra's in series minus all the clipping diodes:
http://www.forrestwhitesides.com/node/56

The Electra is a great little building block.

i agree. i was diddlin around with the electra when i came up with the Dirty Boots.
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cj- where are the schemos on your blog?

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » 06 Jan 2009, 16:51

RnFR wrote:cj- where are the schemos on your blog?

I forgot to post a couple of schems, including the one I linked. I'll get it posted soon.

JHS · Post by **JHS** » 06 Jan 2009, 16:57

Build 2 FX, cover 8 other FX ...

https://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb4 ... oomers.gif

JHS

rexnomad · Post by **rexnomad** » 11 Jan 2009, 20:05

On that tone control in the first diagram, are those caps coming off the lugs just soldered to the side of the pot? Or am I missing something?

samhambone · Post by **samhambone** » 12 Jan 2009, 00:50

rexnomad wrote:On that tone control in the first diagram, are those caps coming off the lugs just soldered to the side of the pot? Or am I missing something?

one leg of the cap is soldered to the lug on the pot, the other leg to the bottom of the pot.

sonicvi · Post by **sonicvi** » 22 Apr 2010, 01:35

Ghetto Stomp schematic. It does some nice tweed/silvertone overdrive tones. The circuit board is a postage stamp sized piece of perfboard with no unusual components, basic green film caps and carbon film resistors. It was encased in a ball of black shrink tubing type stuff. I failed to get a pic with the board exposed before I taped it back up.

Oops, didn't see there was a previous Ghetto Stomp thread. Maybe a mod can move this or delete it.

IvIark · Post by **IvIark** » 08 May 2010, 17:25

Vero for those interested. I've added a filter cap and LED resistor, which can obviously be omitted if you're not bothered:

kinski · Post by **kinski** » 09 Aug 2012, 18:53

So I have an actual Greer Ghetto Stomp. Its great. It has a huge booming low end, which I adore. However, sometimes that huge lowed can become muddy in certain situations. I'd love to but a bass cut switch on this guy. Would it be best to put a switch on the input or output cap? Which one is causing that huge low-end?

juanro · Post by **juanro** » 09 Aug 2012, 19:06

Possibly both, but I'd try first with the input. The .1u cap is fairly big for that position... try switching it (with a SPDT) to .01u or if that's too little, perhaps some intermediate value (.022u , .033u)

Regards,
Juanro

kinski · Post by **kinski** » 09 Aug 2012, 19:16

awesome, thanks. I'll report back when I make this happen.

Nick Greer - Ghetto Stomp [traced]