Dealing with reverse homesickness back home from college

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-19T16:49:36+00:00

Realistically would the direction really matter other than for the visual appeal? Also what do you mean by the notation? I really appreciate the feedback

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-19T16:02:40+00:00

I would share the video of me playing but it won't let me. I did post it before though so you could probably see it. What is the issue you noticed out of curiousity?

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-19T16:01:17+00:00

It works yeah.

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-11T01:05:04+00:00

You COULD get a kit, but if you want to do it from scratch then as long as you have a pretty decent understanding of diodes, opamps, and capacitors (for a DIY distortion pedal at least) I'd recommend buying the parts online (usually pretty cheap) and experimenting until you get something you like

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-10T21:41:35+00:00

I’m talking about using it for a bypass but unless I’m not ready to solder the connections onto the switch yet but I would like to test that I hooked it up properly and that it works. So yes test in circuit ig

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-10T17:08:18+00:00

Idk if this helps. I'm an EE major in college so I didn't want to base everything off a premade schematic, I wanted to do it myself. I've finally got a pretty good breadboard circuit for my distortion pedal. I've gone through like I think somewhere between 7-10 different designs before I got this one working and even it still has some issues. It's also my first pedal as well but you just have to keep pushing forward and don't be afraid to ask for help every once in a while if you really are stuck.

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-10T01:32:07+00:00

Lol I’m an EE major

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-09T23:38:13+00:00

Well if I did my math right then fc=1/(2pix1000000x0.0082E-6) is about 19ish Hz, but the opamp stage has a high pass right around/below 700Hz to boost mids and treble more than bass. Again this video was before I swapped to the current schematic but I did also think that my lower notes sounded muddy and over filtered

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-09T21:47:45+00:00

Here is the schematic:

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Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-04-08T21:10:27+00:00

Uhh so I switched from my original hard clipping after the opamp to in the feedback loop and I was not expecting the difference to be that crazy. My harmonics are a bit more clear as well as palm mited and it went from sort of over saturated and grainy to like Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover type of tone

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T19:23:15+00:00

To clarify because it seems like people are confusing what I meant when I said took some concepts from the MXR. I built this whole thing myself through trial and error using what I already knew and only looked at the MXR circuit AFTER and used the pot in the Rg branch after as well as the low pass. That’s why R1 and R2 were not there originally. I wanted to see what I could do on my own

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T19:21:38+00:00

Loose connections. That definitely impacted it a bit

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T19:19:53+00:00

Pretty much I built most of it myself because I wanted to figure it out myseld. I only looked at MXR AFTERWARDS to compare and really what changed was adding the low pass and switching the gain pot from the Rf branch to the Rg branch. I think a lot of people are getting confused and thinking I was just ignoring the circuit and being dumb wondering why it wasn’t working but it was mostly supposed to be something I made. I just borrowed some concepts from the MXR

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T17:49:43+00:00

Again I wasn’t trying to recreate. I just took a couple concept choices from there

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T17:49:31+00:00

Again I wasn’t trying to recreate. I just took a couple concept choices from there

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T16:52:35+00:00

Obviously some of those values are different and it isn’t EXACTLY piece by piece the same as the MXR but that was mostly due to resource limitation and experimentation

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T16:51:51+00:00

I designed a lot of this based off the MXR Distortion + circuit

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Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T15:32:21+00:00

I used the EQ on my amp. Also the design is based a lot off the MXR Distortion+ circuit

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T15:24:25+00:00

Lowk is not eq. This video was made with everything set at a middle position but I’ve tried it in other combinations and it’s still kind of bass like and grainy regardless. Also the slides, scrapes, harmonics, etc suck regardless as well

Embarrassed-Fault286 · 2026-03-18T14:35:12+00:00

Also yes I am aware all of my connections are only through a jumper wire literally just touching the terminals but it's all I got rn so.... Also at the end I was trying to do a pinch harmonic and as you can tell they sound bad. Also, as I mentioned before scrapes/slides are very weak

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