I promise to take some photos of my current projects this week.  At least, the ones that aren’t secret.  Shhhh.  I’ve been sketching out some ideas for some new microcontroller-driven effects modules.  If my sketches prove to translate realistically into the real world, I should be able to make some pretty unique devices.  So unique, [...]

So, I’ve been trying to build a Polywhatsit effects processor from the December 2001 issue of EPE Magazine. I ordered the PCB’s from the magazine’s US website, sourced all of the parts (even the weird one), bought a new USB PIC programmer board on eBay, and started looking at unique housings. Flash forward two weeks: [...]

I was browsing through some old copies of EPE Magazine and came across a project from December 2001 called the PIC Polywhatsit. It is a PIC-based effects processor that offers some interesting sound effects such as Pitch Multiplying and Reverse Tracking. EPE still has the circuit boards (one for analog and one for digital) available [...]

TonePad started taking orders for a new effects project based on the FV-1 chip from Spin Semiconductor. The project, cleverly named “Reverb Digital,” allows the use of the FV-1 reverb DSP chip with guitars. The chip seems pretty cool, with 3 built-in ADC inputs designed to read pots for realtime adjustment of parameters, integrated stereo [...]