first to comment, yay!

im currently working on a cupholder cooler….
if i get it done, ill send it in.

Posted at 9:35 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by phycon

That A/B box is not very good. You’ll get a huge loss of tone and signal, there is a much better box which is A/B/Y which is lossless and not that much harder to build. They don’t show you the pretty pictures, but they have a schematic for just about any effect you would want at http://www.geofex.com/

There is a multitude of build it yourself guitar gear there. Any of them I’ve built have worked, so I trust the schems. Really you need to be able to figure out the layout of the parts, and know what needs to be put by what and in which orientation to other parts to get good sound. Effects/audio are very picky.

Posted at 9:51 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by marnargulus

dude thats awesome, are there anymore sites like this one on building simple effects, or even building small synths? thats awesome though…

Posted at 9:52 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by fishdog

Don’t forget the JesuSonic: http://www.jesusonic.com/

Less fun soldering though.

Posted at 10:10 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by Matt

Awesome. I’ve been waiting for something like this to come here for a while now.

Posted at 10:27 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by christian

Any one know what the 6 pin devices are (top of picture with pins shorted) i see no schematic but i think its a double throw toggle switch, am i right?

Posted at 10:35 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by riff

I don’t know the technical name, but the 6 pin thingy is the toggle switch that you would typically step on.

Posted at 10:44 am on Jul 5th, 2005 by matt

double pole double throw switch. Basically 2 switches that go on/off together.

Posted at 12:03 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by marnargulus

It should be noted that you can’t get a true bypass with a double pole double throw switch, so it still has to go through the circuit somehow. What you need for true bypass is a triple pole double throw (three on/off together). The exception people have built is the Millenium Bypass, which is not included in the above circuit. It would add more parts than are actual in that circuit to use that type of switch and get any good tone when you switched it off.

Posted at 12:08 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by marnargulus

That is a long way to go for schematic diagrams of some very basic hookups, but it shore looks pretty.

Posted at 12:14 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by strider_mt2k

Where can someone learn about circuitry online? I am a completely new to the subject.

Posted at 12:15 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by douglas doughty

The A/B box is not a signal splitter but a switch. One output gets shorted and the other is connected to the input. No splitting is going on; you just select which output gets connected to the input. This is lossless.
It’s stupid how it’s using a DC supply just for indicator LEDs. Why not use a DPDT toggle switch instead of the hard-to-find 3PDT and just use the position of the handle for indication?

Posted at 12:17 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by Boris

hey, does any one know how to modify the a/b box so that 2 inputs go to 1 output. like say i have 2 guitars with the output going into the a/b box as the input and haveing one output on the box where i could switch between them.

Posted at 12:31 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by whiterabbit

Boris:
The signal of a guitar is very weak. You can’t power LED’s with it so you always add signal. A common use is the 9v because it doesn’t drain very quickly, and you can prebuild the entire power/plug/switch units before any of the main circuit. This saves time when making many boxes (boxen). You also need some type of buffer (the caps) for when you switch, otherwise you get a popping sound in the amp (you go from no signal for an instant to a signal, which is an infinately large change). When you are playing guitar live you don’t have the ability to switch an actual toggle with your hands, and it is pretty hard to do with the feet, so a stomp switch must be used. You can’t really tell whether a stomp switch is on or off by looking at it. Hence LED’s in almost all units.

Posted at 12:34 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by marnargulus

for more info on DIY guitar effects the best place by far to go is Aron’s DIY Stompbox forum.

http://diystompboxes.com/sboxforum/index.php

the projects on that site are pretty simplistic. if you have a look on arons forum then there’s a host of other stuff. go look at some sites in the link section. ive spent a good deal of time there and other places and the majority of my effects are either homebuilt or modified

and marnargulus, you can get true bypass with a DPDT switch, all the effects on that site are TB

Posted at 2:33 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by Johnny G

diy electronic drums, it’s a membership required site, but they’ve posted some very solid (and very free) plans for building drum trigger pads…

http://www.electronicdrums.com/pads/pads2.htm

Posted at 2:45 pm on Jul 5th, 2005 by patrick

lol i know this may sound dumb but i like the lay out the pic of how it is setup up the wireing digram lol do u guys think theres more sites with wiring digrams like those?

Posted at 4:12 am on Jul 6th, 2005 by seesoe

someone hacked into the site and erased the plans, ficker:

Posted at 10:52 am on Jul 10th, 2005 by morbidi

“by whiterabbit
hey, does any one know how to modify the a/b box so that 2 inputs go to 1 output. like say i have 2 guitars with the output going into the a/b box as the input and haveing one output on the box where i could switch between them.”

See my A/B box at:
http://ozvalveamps.elands.com/footswitch.htm#Peter

cheers,
-Roly

Posted at 1:08 am on Feb 12th, 2006 by Roly Roper

I’ve tried building the Fuzzbox for some time, and its a real enigma trying to get it to work. I get no ‘nice, warm, fuzzy’ distorion, just a square wave. Is it [supposed] to do that?

Posted at 4:23 am on Apr 23rd, 2006 by neoxide