How To Build Guitar Pedals - Clipping Diodes Compared
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Wow, man!!!! Just learned more about circuits in 15 min that 2 semesters of electrical engineering courses💪The LED clipping diodes sound especially heavy on bass and add some serious weight to my tone🦍Love the clean boost function too🦇 Thank you for this video and WELL DONE🤜🤛🤘
Haha totally know what you mean man! Cheers and thank you for checking it out!
That's a pretty sad school if you didn't get a better education over the course of dozens of hours than you did with a short YT video 😂. I'm not disparaging the video, it's very well done. But that sounds like either hyperbole, or a massive waste of money on a school that should maybe be investigated lol
Watching this from New Zealand. Thanks for the explanations; I now understand why a clipping circuit needs a diode in each direction! Awesome use of a visual tool to explain what the ears are hearing.
@@LeviBulger Haha - I think putting the information in the context of a guitar pedal made it infinitely more interesting than abstract schematics🤘
@@JonDeth I'll have you know, going to clown college was the best decision of my life!!!
This is one of the first videos to actually walk through this subject in a way that a big dummy who got a C- in high school physics can understand. Thank so much!
Soooo happy to hear that. Like, can’t get a better comment than this. I suffered through physics and got barely a passing C in my first college class, and totally now how you feel.
Sometimes it’s just not explained in a way that clicks with someone, not that they aren’t capable
may be using the wrong terminology cause of comp sci background, but in computing i think wed describe germanium as having "more resoluiton" than silicon, since it goes down further 0.3 than the silicon at 0.6~0.7, again, sorry my jargon isnt as tight as it should be, i think the biggest downside of self taught is the lack of a solid jargon or nomenclature for speaking to other like minded individuals
The differences between symmetrical and asymmetrical clipping is something I would like to see and hear. Keep up the great work.
I have learned more here than anywhere else! I was investigating this as a hobby, but getting overwhelmed. This has helped me understand so much, thank you!
Thanks for the watching!
Video about different clipping options like with mosfet, asymmetrical, etc.?
Cheers!
Recently built my first pedal kit, a big muff clone, and saw a lot of people saying a common mod is to change the clipping diodes for LEDs to take out some harshness.
Thought I'd take a quick look at what the deal is with clipping diodes and came across this video, ended up watching a bunch of your videos over the past few days and honestly I feel like this channel is going to be invaluable as I learn more about building pedals.
Thanks for all the hard work and free education, really appreciate it!
I tend to like the louder and less compressed sounds so I liked LED and no diodes.
Those sound really cool!
LED (Light Emitting Diode).
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I love how you can take the circuit and make it easy to understand. Of the ones used, I liked the led clipping. But I do think germanium would be great too.
Doing my best to keep things easy to understand! Cheers
That was very well explained thank you !
Great video, easy to follow and very clear presentation. Many thanks.
Incredible Video, very simple explanation for a complex theme ;-)
thanks for watching Farhat!
Watching from Long Island, NY. This is cool stuff. I’ve been wanting to get into pedal building for a while. Finally have my degree, lots of guitars, pedals, and test equipment. Subscribed. The germanium diodes, which I think you said turn on at really low voltages, would clip more (more square shaped and shorter) and further reduce output signal. My favorite clipping is whatever is in the Friedman BE-OD, which is probably op-amp power rails... I don’t remember seeing any diodes in there. There was a Metalzone mod that had me replace silicon diodes (1N4001’s I think) with red led’s. I liked the silicons better.
FYI, the BE-OD actually uses cascaded gain stages, where the first stage is a soft clipping stage with red LED's. The second stage is a soft clipping stage with silicon diodes, and the third is a hard clipping stage with red LED's again.
10:34 made the theoretical visible in a way that hasn't connected with me with any other tutorial, visual or written. Excellent presentation.
So happy to hear that!!
God the electronic engineering nerd in me that likes stoner metal just needed new pants after randomly finding this RUclips channel
Hope you enjoy the channel! Cheers Daniel!
I like the red led, sound and tone. I am in Australia. Question is the red led a normal every day red led like you would find on a toy to let you know that the toy is on ?
I would like to know how to make a high power solid state amp for guitar. Just the amp head unit like the orange amps
Best, clearest explanation of the inner workings of distortion pedals I have come across so far
Really happy this video made sense thanks for watching Derek!
Just stumbled upon this as I’m starting journey on diy pedals. Thanks for producing…a great video and very easy to understand explanations! Will now start working through your library.
Thanks for watching!
Cool video! I have a pharaoh supreme that has 6 different clipping options and now I get why there’s a sound difference! Cheers from Australia! Looking forward to the next video like this 🤘
Bet that pedals sounds awesome and glad this helped!
Great Video, man. I´m a Pedal Builder from Argentina and got years trying to explain this Stuff to the people I make Pedals for.
You have made it in a very comprehensive way. Cheers.
Hi, Jason!
All diodes actually sounded fine. Would be nice to hear a tonal comparison where clipping amount is equal for all diodes. As we theoretically know at which voltage they clip, I think it is possible to calibrate input level for approx. equal amount of clipping. A test for different diodes (lets say silicons) to hear how much they sound different would be interesting too! I never done these tests myself, but tried different diodes to check how they affect the tone in a given pedal.
Thank you for the interesting content!
Great video! I'm watching from Taipei, Taiwan in a 2 week quarantine that has me searching up things I've never thought to search before. I never really knew what clipping diodes were. Now that you've explained them and I've listened, I think no diodes are my favorite. Just adjust the level and tone. Silicon was way too compressed. I guess they all have their place in a mix, but just listening to one alone I'd prefer the clarity of Op Amps only.
Hi Jason! Watching from th UK here. Diode clipping was my favourite here, I prefer a more compressed fuzz sound.
Keep up the excellence!
Subscribed because you organize your spare parts.
Of course I do haha!
Can you use any led as long as it is the correct voltage no matter the color
Sure! The different colors usually provide different voltages. You could always test them with a multimeter in diode mode
hell-o!how about a transistor as clipping device?!Cheers from Bosnia and Herzegovina!
FET Preamp? Boss and MXR both did one.
Same sort of idea as no diode clipping with a gain stage
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You could play so much with this pedal, just been available to change differents clipping diode give infinite sounds, i think there not a favorite, my favorite fuzzlord pedal perhaps. Barcelona in tha house!!!!
Thank you so much Daniel!
Please correct me if I'm wrong (just to get my head around this): A silicon diode needs 0.7V to be forward biased, so by amplifying the clean signal these turn on and send anything over the 0.7V to ground, which gives us a square wave (or clipped) signal for anything under the 0.7V? Watching from Belgium (:
Correct!
How do active pickups affect this ?
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NE indiana. Germanium compresses the signal more. I modded my big muff the 2nd clipping stage is asymmetric with a red led and germanium and I love the sound I get from her. Please do a video explaining rc filters both high and low pass. Thanks for everything you do Jason.
That is awesome you modded your big muff! Thanks for watching Droney!
Pittsburgh as per usual!!! I think I liked the red led clipping the best, it was a little more harsh and chaotic sounding and I like that type of break up. Great video, keep up the great work Jason!!! 🤘🤘🤘
Thanks Chris! They are kinda the happy medium between silicon and no diode clipping. Thanks for watching!
greatings from chile! I think silicon is best for fuzz and led for overdrive maybe? or its becouse I like ridiculous massive fuzzes haha
Right on! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Greetings from Brasília, Brazil. Thanks a lot for your videos.
Cheers!
Question, what's the best way to get a pedal company going. I have an original bass overdrive that's up to the veroboard prototype in an enclosure stage. And by original I mean a unique circuit (as unique as overdrives can be in this day and age).
Thanks for watching and commenting! Check out the Fuzz Life podcast. We have an episode about this exact subject!
Engineers of Doom! Watching from stanwood Wa. I liked no diode clipping!
Cheers!
Watching from Belgium. Very good explanation!
Thank you Joeri!
Great video, watching from Denver, I like the LED.
cheers Greg!
Red leds. I'm getting ideas... currently in Wales GB.
Cheers Steve!
Great video! Thanks from montevideo! Love the led!
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hi man i watch from turkey-istanbul (superfly custom effects) i find out the germanium diodes, i try about 4-5 different, was effected of the cone control alot, not like red diodes or silicon, hey got a more metalized sound, like a ring or a oktave pedal sound
thanks for watching Ahmet!
How many camera angles and a shot that we can actually see the occiliscope
Fuzzlord: yes
all of them hahahhaa thanks for watching!
Cool demo. I am from Brighton UK, on the fence with clipping. Will have to experiment to make up my mind.
Cheers!
Connecticut , bass player , red and no diodes , Would love to see your version of a volt thrower pedal or an early Green Russian pre screws on the top panel.
That's awesome you like the red and no diodes Michael! Great for bass. I'll have to look into those!
This is a really clear, easy-to-understand vid. Thanks.
No problem!
Can you do one like this in depth on the gain stage?
There is a couple op amp gain stage videos on the Patreon channel (:
Fucking love red LED, i would put them in the coffee too
Hahaha nice!
how about clipping with mosfet(2n7000) isn't good?
Very good sounding! Google "diode connected mosfet"
Great explanations, very informative. I liked them all, but was surprised at how much I liked the power clipping sound. Didn't think I'd like it at all. Seeing the waveforms was really cool. Did you adjust the tone knob for a second? The shape of the waveform changed in a different way and I'm curious to know what was going on there.
No clipping sure does sound good!
Watching from Grand Rapids, MI. I normally prefer OpAmp clipping or silicone diodes, depending on the sound I am going for. I really enjoyed this breakdown of the diodes and how you explained them technically and in layman’s terms. I had always heard LEDs are less compressed but it was nice to hear (and see with the oscilloscope) why this happens.
Really glad you enjoyed the video!!!
What do you think about the Carbon Clipping ?
Haven't tried it but I am sure they have their own sort of sound.
Really cool video, nice teaching , thanks
Thanks for watching!
My bed in SC, red leds. Ive been using GE 9 diodes lately
Those GE diodes sound great I bet!
Awesome video! It's great to know much more about how things work under the hood! I'm writing from São Paulo, Brazil. I'm more of a distortion sound fan, rather than fuzz sound, so, in this case, I like no diodes better.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Surprised I like the no clipping diode.
Sounds good yeah?
Tumwater, WA
I liked the LED and no diode clipping
Great video, Jason! In my Murmur fuzz, I go for a best of 2 worlds approach: a pair of red LEDs in the first stage and a pair of silicon diodes I the second stage. Cheers from the frozen doomscape of Ohio! ✨❄️✨
Italy here! I think I have no favourite one, every diode (from my almost total ignorance about this argument) seems to work for a different purpose, i liked the red diode maybe a little more just because it was a middle situation between silicon and no diode. I guess germanium one would compress thr signal even more than the silicon one! Am I right or am I missing something?
You are correct sir.
That’s exactly it!
very informative. exactly what pedal builders should be doing on RUclips
thank you!
Watching from Jersey, and Red LEDs seem to be juuuust right when it comes to being not as compressed, but still dirty
Pretty cool to hear them all back to back yeah??
Thank you for sharing this. I want online classes .
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Thanks for great video. Cheers from Poland :-)
Thanks for watching!
@@FuzzlordEffects my pleasure
Seattle WA. Preferred no diodes, thought I would like the LEDs. Curious about using JFETs as clippers, but I think I would be happy with voltage split diodes, that is, resistors to soften the knee.
Great video. Now I have a better understanding of clipping diodes. Cheers from Australia 👍
Glad it helped!!! Cheers Tim!
wow, great video, clear explanation with visuals. Earned a loyal sub. Thanks!!!
Boulder City Nevada here.
Firstly, thank you for the cool video.
Secondly, silicon is in the mud.
Red LEDs, nice with some tremolo me thinks.
Power clipping, where's the fun in that?
Overall summary: Way mucho awesome!
Good on you!
sooo... no diodes is the way to go then....
yes!
Do you have any video about asymmetrical vs symmetrical clipping? I'm Watching from Brazil!
Greetings from Brazil!
Thanks for watching Lucas!
This is an awesome video, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely killer sovtek shirt
thanks!
This came up while building a circuit I'm sure many of us have seen. The problem with that circuit is how completely out-of-control it can get. The red LED option worked great in my experiment. I post this link to my short video only to show my work...ruclips.net/video/hqumcrSB1cs/видео.html
Hei from Germany!!
I really liked the "fucked up" sound of the LED clipping, but I still love silicon.
I am watching this from Columbia, SC and I just started getting into breadboarding and analyzing circuits to better understand pedals. Thank you for discussing the differences between diode signals and clipping.
Hell yeah! fellow South Carolina doom playin resident.
oh i luv ur channet. i am learning more
Glad you like it!! Thanks for watching
I just recently build me a parentheses Fuzz with 3 Clipping options and i am torn between Silicon Cleeping because of the, what i learned now, the lowest tipping point which makes it more "round" i guess overall and no diodes on the other side because it feels the most like a nice Amp distortion with nice Dynamics.
Cheers! Nice Video as always!
I bet that fuzz sounds awesome!
4:45 if you have an audio interface, you can also use a vst or a program like soundcard oscilloscope to see the distortion
Great video. I like the scope! Been using an old Tektronix MONSTER-size dinosaur. Gonna order one of the Hanteks.
Really great explanation, thank you so much, regards from Perú!
I know i'm late to the party but yeah :P Watching from Sweden. I have no idea what diodes I like and this video is what I searched for to even understand what diodes actually do :D
I have built pedals from kits before but I'm wanting to actually understand what every component do to the sound and to experiment for my own sounds. I want to make some "salvaged fuzz"-pedals for myself atleast from stuff I can find on PCB's before they go to the scrap heap.
Hey, bro. I'm watching from Austria and my favourite is silicon. Actually I like Germanium even better, depends on the style of music. Hey, do you have anything about transistor clipping techniques? I've been looking for JFET based effects all over the internet. There are many schematics, but haven't found any explanations so I can design my own. If you don't have anything about this topic, there's an idea ;).
I really enjoy your videos I am waiting on my first pedal kit now. I went with a digital delay for my first build. If all goes well I would like to find an octave fuzz pedal next. I am watching from Waverly Ohio btw. Keep making these videos.
Red LED diode be my fav.
Cheers!
1:48 start of content
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@@FuzzlordEffects nothing against you doing that, mate. Keep up the good work.
Great information and clearly explained. Philly and I prefer no diodes. Coincidentally or serendipitously I've stumbled upon this channel while considering getting a benchtop power supply, and I see that you recommend one of the ones I've been considering. I'd read that switching (versus linear) power supplies can give off ripple/noise but maybe that's negligible here? I haven't found much on the internet about Best Benchtop Power Supplies for audio. Can you list some of the ways that you use one?
Watching from The Netherlands, definitely preferred opamp only. Didn't think I'd really have a preference, to be honest. But apparently I like less compression and distortion in distortion pedals.
Are there asymmetrical circuits that have for example a silicon for positive and nanolog or germanium for negative voltage, perhaps with additional components to match the output volume because of the different clipping voltage requirements?
Cheers from Brazil. Great content. Red LED.
Awesome! From Sweden and just getting into guitar pedals and electronics.
Great video. Coming in from STL and really digging the smooth edges on the Red LED. Does your buddy have any more of the Mother Iron Horse shirts with the SG? I think you wore it on the pedal board video.
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Great video, so clear and well done, excellent. Listening from Montreal Canada, and before video, absolutely no clue what's my favourite distortion...
Please explain why signal is affected by the diodes placed like in the schem aroun 3:20min. You have almost 0 ohm path between input and output why would the signal choose to go to ground through diodes? Why would the ground have higher affinity to electrons than output?
Unless I was making a passive pedal where I'd use schottkys or similar, I'd probably opt for leds, simply because they look funny when you mount them externally.
You could also make a case for more wiggle room, and perhaps a specific forward voltage curve compared to non silicon diodes, and perhaps non lighting silicon diodes.
Really nice video! Can you tell us why you specify the color of the diodes? And do you use current limiting resistors in this application? Thanks!
I liked the led diods the most. Love the vids started watching yasterday from Israel and now I'm a subscriber =)
Would love to see a video about what pedal parts are there (like generally), which do you usually use in what pedal and what they do to a signal, just a suggestion=)
If I have a single diode in the feedback loop of an opamp, isn't that a form of logarithmic opamp? If I add a dc offset to the incoming signal, am I creating a form of one sided compression, like in a tube?
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watching from stockholm, sweden - gotta say i like no diodes! Would love to see some videos on breadboarding fundamentals!
There is no way to compensate for the volume drop of the silicone/germanium diodes?