Strand 2

In the time researching schematics for basic oscillator circuits I’ve learnt more about the use of capacitors, resistors and transistors in audio equipment and the ways they mould and effect the sound they produce/effect. This gave me the idea to circuit bend a few more guitar pedals but now with more of a understanding of what I’m doing. The three switches you see on the octave pedal each control a different bend. I decided to bend a octave down pedal for the idea that could possibly replace a resistor with a variable resistor to create a pitch bend. This somewhat didn’t go to plan, I ended up adding a link from the two octave potentiometers to a transistor which seemed to be part of a boost circuit built in. between the link was the switch, when turned on the effect would be a pitch shifting sequencer effect, very similar to a glitchy arpeggiator, which would also react with the amplitude spikes from the input. The second bend was a basic feedback loop running between the input and output and octave down potentiometer. The third bend is a bit-crush almost sound which I’m completely happy with even though I was aiming for a overdrive/distortion. I achieved this by taking a link from the power output running into the LED and skipping a resistor, which was part of the boost circuit and linking to the main volume knob of the pedal. This third bend is most likely damaging the pedal but the effect it creates is to cool to care about the damage.