Great idea! I'm already envisioning a board of individual pedals which are all discrete stages - couple of gain stages, couple of eqs, some clipping diodes... Kinda build your own pedal in a single pedal board.
I really love how you cater to visual learners and people who don't have much (if any) electrical training. I also love how you think that through-mount diodes are "really tiny." Surface Mount components almost made me give up on electronics repair.
Thank you it means a lot to hear that 😁 I want the channel to grow and go from beginner stuff and up to more advanced stuff so anyone who wants to can follow along and grow with it 😊 I didn't use to think that they were small but then I tried filming them and it's hard to get them on camera 😆
I’ve been messing with passive diode pedals recently. If you put a buffered pedal in front of it you don’t have as much of a volume drop and it’s less muddy and fuzzy with the buffer. More crunch. And if you run a boost into it you can get a dynamic drive sound.
@@zurowetz yesterday I did some more experimenting. I made a pedal that’s just a volume knob and also a pair of germanium diodes in parallel going from signal to ground. You put the pedal in your amps effects loop then you can crank the amp’s preamp volume and then lower the pedal’s volume to the desired level. It’s a similar idea as the JHS Little Black Amp Box Passive Amp Attenuator but with the addition of clipping diodes. I’d like to try this again with a rotary switch with various diodes then I can hear the different characteristics of the diodes in this application.
If you want to make it a bit cheaper you don't really need a 3PDT foot switch. A simple SPST foot switch will do (could even use a bedside lamp switch to be uber-cheap. But don't stomp on it too hard though!) Just wire the diode pair between the signal lugs of the jack sockets and a parallel path through the switch between the same. When the switch is off, the only path for the signal is through the diodes. When it's on, the diodes are shorted, and therefore totally bypassed. The other thing you could do if you stick with the 3PDT switch is replace that little wire with a resistor or preset pot, That way you can volume match the clipped and un-clipped signal. Of course there will still be an insertion loss, but this can be compensated for with more gain downstream.
One of my favourite new channels. I've been building gor a while now, but I still enjoy what you bring to the table. One minor correction though, at 5.15, you add a small jumper wire to the footswitch. You state that it doesn't need to have plastic insulation, this is true, however, you are using metal bodied jacks, ground connection is made to the body of the enclosure, your wire touches the body, it would short all signal to ground, if it wasn't covered in plastic. Really sorry, because your content is excellent. Can you edit your voice out of that part?
thank you for the love and help I appreciate it I removed the bit about the wire it was unnecessary to have it there, you can do it with a leg of a resistor or something but I didn't explain that you have to make sure it doesn't touch anything else if you gonna do it so thank you for spotting it 👍😉
nice. can you think of a diode that offers a 'cleanish' clipping so it's almost like a passive compressor? trying to think of something subtle as an always on effect
The hotter The pickup The more it will be clipping so experiment with what guitar you are using and what diode clips in a way you like but it will never be like a compressor that is not what is happening
I'm really confused about what this does to the signal. I expected it to be connected to the ground to drain excessive voltage and clipping the signal from the top (and bottom for negative voltages) as usual. In this setup, it seems to clip the middle section of the signal. If the voltage is low, no current can flow and it remains at 0 on the output until the forward voltage of the diode is reached and then it should reproduce everything above more or less faithfully minus the forward voltage.
I was looking at the same thing and that's exactly what happens here. Just simulated it and as you described, having the diodes in series (in to out) will just cut out +/-forward voltage around zero. Commonly clipping diodes are placed against ground and then it'll actually "clip" or limit the amplitude. Not sure what this series diode method should be called, but sounds interesting nevertheless.
Or just add the diodes and a mini toggle to any or all your existing pedals like every other pedal builder on earth has been doing for the last 15 years!!
Great idea! I'm already envisioning a board of individual pedals which are all discrete stages - couple of gain stages, couple of eqs, some clipping diodes... Kinda build your own pedal in a single pedal board.
That's a really cool idea it would open up the possibility for a extremely personalised pedal board if it's not too noisy 😅
I really love how you cater to visual learners and people who don't have much (if any) electrical training. I also love how you think that through-mount diodes are "really tiny." Surface Mount components almost made me give up on electronics repair.
Thank you it means a lot to hear that 😁 I want the channel to grow and go from beginner stuff and up to more advanced stuff so anyone who wants to can follow along and grow with it 😊 I didn't use to think that they were small but then I tried filming them and it's hard to get them on camera 😆
I’ve been messing with passive diode pedals recently. If you put a buffered pedal in front of it you don’t have as much of a volume drop and it’s less muddy and fuzzy with the buffer. More crunch. And if you run a boost into it you can get a dynamic drive sound.
Oh that's cool yeah I'm gonna have to make more experiments soon 😀
@@zurowetz yesterday I did some more experimenting. I made a pedal that’s just a volume knob and also a pair of germanium diodes in parallel going from signal to ground. You put the pedal in your amps effects loop then you can crank the amp’s preamp volume and then lower the pedal’s volume to the desired level. It’s a similar idea as the JHS Little Black Amp Box Passive Amp Attenuator but with the addition of clipping diodes. I’d like to try this again with a rotary switch with various diodes then I can hear the different characteristics of the diodes in this application.
@@mindfield9832 cool man you're like a real scientist now 👍😀👍
If you want to make it a bit cheaper you don't really need a 3PDT foot switch. A simple SPST foot switch will do (could even use a bedside lamp switch to be uber-cheap. But don't stomp on it too hard though!)
Just wire the diode pair between the signal lugs of the jack sockets and a parallel path through the switch between the same. When the switch is off, the only path for the signal is through the diodes. When it's on, the diodes are shorted, and therefore totally bypassed.
The other thing you could do if you stick with the 3PDT switch is replace that little wire with a resistor or preset pot, That way you can volume match the clipped and un-clipped signal. Of course there will still be an insertion loss, but this can be compensated for with more gain downstream.
Awesome thanks 😁👍 you could also put it into a guitar I have a video on it and to be honest I think it the best 😁
Amazing!!!
thank you😁
Super cool! Thanks for posting. My new favorite channel. How would you add an LED light?
thank you really nice of you to say! ☺ this video th-cam.com/video/0uBH0CTIlFI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz hope it helps 👊
One of my favourite new channels. I've been building gor a while now, but I still enjoy what you bring to the table.
One minor correction though, at 5.15, you add a small jumper wire to the footswitch.
You state that it doesn't need to have plastic insulation, this is true, however, you are using metal bodied jacks, ground connection is made to the body of the enclosure, your wire touches the body, it would short all signal to ground, if it wasn't covered in plastic. Really sorry, because your content is excellent. Can you edit your voice out of that part?
thank you for the love and help I appreciate it I removed the bit about the wire it was unnecessary to have it there, you can do it with a leg of a resistor or something but I didn't explain that you have to make sure it doesn't touch anything else if you gonna do it so thank you for spotting it 👍😉
@@zurowetz your welcome. Thanks for the humility. It goes a long way.
nice. can you think of a diode that offers a 'cleanish' clipping so it's almost like a passive compressor? trying to think of something subtle as an always on effect
The hotter The pickup The more it will be clipping so experiment with what guitar you are using and what diode clips in a way you like but it will never be like a compressor that is not what is happening
I'm really confused about what this does to the signal. I expected it to be connected to the ground to drain excessive voltage and clipping the signal from the top (and bottom for negative voltages) as usual. In this setup, it seems to clip the middle section of the signal. If the voltage is low, no current can flow and it remains at 0 on the output until the forward voltage of the diode is reached and then it should reproduce everything above more or less faithfully minus the forward voltage.
I was looking at the same thing and that's exactly what happens here. Just simulated it and as you described, having the diodes in series (in to out) will just cut out +/-forward voltage around zero. Commonly clipping diodes are placed against ground and then it'll actually "clip" or limit the amplitude.
Not sure what this series diode method should be called, but sounds interesting nevertheless.
Dads computer! Lol
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Interesting.
Hum yes..🤔
Wait could I also do this with caps? And what will it do?:]
Yeah sure you can and why not make all 3 might be fun 😊
@@zurowetz yeah i also modded an orange amp with a mix of caps I made called the “Lucifer” and it sounds way more aggressive and brighter :]
@@-TheZilvers-7812 coool 😍
@@zurowetz i think ima post an audio short rn!!:]
@@-TheZilvers-7812 you think? I'll check it out!😁
could you put this in a guitar
you can put anything in anything 😆th-cam.com/video/4dtodHWej8Y/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz
Or just add the diodes and a mini toggle to any or all your existing pedals like every other pedal builder on earth has been doing for the last 15 years!!