Tube Distortion Pedal

The following circuit is tube distortion pedal for guitar effect. The circuit designed by Ron Black. Circuit Notes: IC1 : 747 dual op-amp, other ICs may be substitued but pinout will different. You should check the datasheet IC2 : LM340K-12V Voltage Regulator All resistors are 1/2 W Bridge Rectifier – Full wave bridge recitifier, 50… Read More »

Lead-Acid Battery Charger

The following scheme diagram is the circuit diagram of Lead-Acid battery charger. This circuit provides an initial voltage of 2.5 V per cell at 25 ℃ to quickly charge the battery. The charging current decreases as the battery is charging, and when the current drops to 180 mA, the charging circuit reduces the output voltage… Read More »

Tube Mic Pre-Amp

The following diagram is the circuit diagram of tube mic pre amplifier 12AX7. This circuit is little hard to built. You must have an intermediate or advanced skills to build this circuit. All capacitors with value of 33uF are 16V, while the all others are 50V unless marked otherwise. Resistors marked with “#” are 1%… Read More »

BOSS Slow Gear SG-1

This is the circuit diagram of BOSS Slow Gear SG-1 effect for electric guitar. The Slow Gear SG-1 effect sounded like a guitar player riding the volume knob of the guitar. This produced a cool swelling sound with a gradual attack, almost like a violin. At $99.50 original retail price, the Slow Gear was a… Read More »

4 Band Equalizer

The following scheme diagram is the four 4 band equalizer circuit. Equalizer device is generally used to improve the fidelity of sound, to emphasize certain instruments, to remove undesired noises, or to create completely new and different timbres. This circuit operated with 12VDC symmetrical / dual polarity power supply. Power supply circuit provided on above… Read More »

Angry Beard III Electric Guitar Effect

Here the circuit diagram of Angry Beard III Effect for Electric Guitar. Build your own guitar effect because the guitar effect kits on the market are very expensive. The OP-AMP can be any single low noise op-amp, the original NE5534 used. The 2N44 is likely to be replaced by PNP germanium transistors other without much… Read More »

Six LED Stereo VU Display

The following image is the scheme diagram of six LED stereo VU display circuit which build using Dot/Bar Display Driver IC LM3915. This VU display should be connected before amplifier module circuit. You may connect this circuit at pre-amp output, tone control input/output or equaliser input/output. This circuit powered with 12V DC supply. About LM3915:… Read More »

Hi-Fi Tone Control

This is a inexpensive high fidelity (hi-fi) tone control circuit designed just with two low cost transistors as the active components. The schematic is one channel (mono) tone control, build the similar circuit will make it become stereo channel. This Hi-Fi tone control circuit can be operated with wide range supply voltage, 12V – 24V… Read More »