Category: DIY Audio
Custom DDC: 2 Bluetooth & auto switching.
Digital audio as used in Hi-Fi certainly often comes from a music streamer, yet the usefulness of Bluetooth cannot be understated. So, next step was to include a high fidelity bluetooth module, and automatic switching of it. I did have […]
Custom DDC: 1 Digital to Digital Converter; USB to l2s over HDMI; S/PDIF; AES
Digital to Digital Converter, this little DIY utility box provides a way to escape a number of digital issues impacting sound quality in hi-fi. It takes usb output from a main streaming system provides it’s own sound card, high quality […]
Pedal: Splitter/Buffer
A great little utility box that on its own can have a massive influence on sound, since it allows me playing through two separate guitar heads at the same time! I also challenged myself building it into the absolute smallest […]
Pedal progression: 2 Suhr Riot
This another one that was pulled out of the drawers, a “amp in a box”, decent rock-box at least 15years ago, still today. Horrid drilling, ok soldering but missing pots, a broken diode and replacing parts, ceramics to start. For […]
High gain SLO/Ubershall: 1 Intro
The machine, this is the main amp I play and the platform I most try to optimize. Origins in Sloclone, It can be switched between key components of an Ubershall, tastes of a Rectifier, controls of a Larry(Fortin), Friedman and […]
TrainWreck Rockette: 2 Headshell
A good find this old, 70’s VOX transistor amp, from my old music teacher no less, seems the perfect candidate for a Trainwreck build (a VOX AC30 top boost with EF86). Non functioning and quite dusty first step’s in making […]
Splitter pedal: Two guitar amps at once
Splitting the output of your guitar/pedalboard to two separate Guitar Amps is one of the most powerful way in shaping your tone and ‘broaden’ the sound, but to do so you need some tricks. In this post I build a […]
Headphone repair
When headphones wear out it’s not unusual to effect the soft fabric parts only, so can eb saved by replacement, or you can prevent failure by some tactical application of superglue. In this post I’ll show how to repair and […]
Dumble Overdrive Special: 3 Mods
Doing a copy of an amp can be a good learning experience, modifying it to suit your needs and taste, however, can be the really rewarding bit. Here I detail added FX loop, footswitchable; dual HRM, with bypass, FETboost, moved […]
Pedal: fixing a Temu digital delay
A Temu guitar pedal… Well 5 euro (or usd) is not a lot for a pedal that is for sure, so I tried this out, yet arrived broken. So got a refund but lets try and fix it anyway I […]