Boss T-Bone

My tuned and modified version of another famous simple circuit: Jordan BossTone. Those mods and fine tunings resulted in some very interesting sound artifacts. If interested, some sort of discussion is running here:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=70080.0

I hope to be of any help,

Alex Frias

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• jordan
• harmonic
• percolator
• diy
• trumpet
• distortion
• tromboner
• fuzz
• overdrive
• octaver
• octave
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[blackholeproductions]

Sounds great! Nice work.

[mbartolomei]

@blackholeproductions Thanx!

[Hereistone]

Cool, what you call "trumpeting" is "Ring Modulation" I think. I remember some kind of synth's having that function.

[mbartolomei]

@Hereistone

@Hereistone

Thanks, but what I understand as Ring Modulation is modulating an audio signal with another audio signal, generating side band frequencies bellow and above the modulated audio signal, this normally adds a metalic harsh effect that I like a lot. I use an EHX Ring Thing to achieve this nowadays, but used to have a Craig Anderton handmade RM for years. You can get similar effect playing two notes at the same time using an analog octaver like Octavia.

[8mileshigher]

nice ! Is this a stock circuit ? Pretty versatile !

[Hereistone]

@mbartolomei Yeah, two tones. It seems that the original signal is being fed back into itself producing a "ringing" overtone. When they are "superimposed" electrically, you get a reed like sound. I'll have to do a search for the "ring thing".

[mbartolomei]

@100roberthenry

Ok, good luck. Could you send me more detaisl about your experiment with the weird fuzz/

[100roberthenry]

@mbartolomei

yeah , i got ya schem from link..will have a look at that...cheers .

i was using 109's...might try some others in there.....

[mbartolomei]

@100roberthenry

It really worthes a try. It's always in my big pedalboard, You could do one for yourself!

[100roberthenry]

@mbartolomei

cheers man...your boss t bone seems very versatile..many sounds...well cool..

[mbartolomei]

@100roberthenry

I really liked very much your project, even if you found the effect accidentaly. Very synthetic nasty fuzz. Not a conventional distoion or fuzz sound. Well... that's my cup of tea!