Collaborate Disseminate
Guitarists will do just about anything to get just the right sound out of their setup, including purposely introducing all manner of distortion into the signal. It seems counter-intuitive, but …read more Continue reading Guitar Distortion with Diodes in Code, Not Hardware
Effects pedals for musical instruments like electric guitars can really expand a musician’s range with the instrument. Adding things like distortion, echo, and reverb at the push of a button …read more Continue reading An Effects Pedal for Keyboards (and Mice)
Guitar effects have come a long way from the jangly, unaltered sounds of the 1950s when rock and roll started picking up steam. Starting in large part with [Jimi Hendrix] …read more Continue reading Modeling A Guitar for Circuit Simulation
We like a project that makes us think, and that was certainly the case with [MS-BOSS]’s octave downshifter that’s an entry in our current op-amp contest. Instead of resorting to …read more Continue reading Op Amp Contest: Go Down An Octave, No FFT, No PLL, No Oscillator!
Moore’s law might not be as immutable as we once though thought it was, as chip makers struggle to fit more and more transistors on a given area of silicon. …read more Continue reading ADSL Router As Effects Pedal
The Raspberry Pi, although first intended as an inexpensive single-board computer for use in education, is now ubiquitous in electronics communities. Its low price as well as Linux platform and …read more Continue reading Processing Audio With the RP2040
Electric guitars were the hip new thing back in the mid-century. The electrification of the common and portable guitar opened up a lot of avenues in terms of sound and …read more Continue reading Bass Guitar Gets Shapeshifting Pickups
When a new project type starts to get a lot of exposure, it’s typically not long before we see people forking the basic concept and striking out in a new …read more Continue reading Musical Cyberdeck is Part Synth, Part MIDI Controller, and All Cool
It’s a well-established fact that a guitarist’s acumen can be accurately gauged by the size of their pedal board- the more stompboxes, the better the player. Why have one box …read more Continue reading Neural Networks Emulate Any Guitar Pedal for $120
In the 60s a musical recording technique called the “wall of sound” came to prominence which allowed artists to create complex layers of music resulting in a novel, rich orchestral feeling. While this technique resulted in some landmark albums (Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys for example) it took …read more