Congrats with your channel, please continue. At the risk of sounding like mr Knowitall, a transistor isn't a lofi component, it's just an amplifier (a current amplifier). The clamping of the tops of the sinewave is due to the two diodes at the end. A diode only conducts current in one direction (the direction of the arrow), but while conducting it has a voltage drop of about 0.6 Volt (depending on type). With the two diodes in parallel but opposing direction, you basically clamp the sinewave or any signal between +0.6 and -0.6 Volt. Thereby creating the fuzz like sound.
Wouldn’t you say a transistor is Lo-Fi in comparison to an Opamp used in a more Hi-Fi scenario? Like an OPA134 perhaps? Those definitely have far less noise. I mean, I have a transistor as the noise source in the Noise Cornucopia I built. Pretty sure you couldn’t do that with an OPA134, hence, Lo-Fi in my book 😅 depends on your definition of lo-fi of course. And every resource I check says transistors clip too, not just the diodes. The wave coming out of Q1 was definitely quite kinked already. And of course I simplified those diodes away because the video was geared towards beginners who probably just want to know how to tell a mellow fuzz from a heavy one. Doesn’t mean those diodes don’t do anything, just that most people really don’t need to know what that is to figure out what kind of Fuzz they want to build.
@@LillySchwartz I suppose, a transistor being a non-linear component, you could call it low fi. Depends on how you use it. A high fi op-amp for instance is itself made using transistors. They use techniques and work-arounds minimize noise and distortion and yet have high amplification and / or bandwidth. These designs are way above my head. The datasheet of this OPA134 unfortunately doesn't include a schematic diagram, i see it uses different types of transistors. The datasheet of the LM471 opamp (which i believe is not so good for audio) does include a block diagram, if you're interested. But this comment has become way to techy already. And you're so right not to overwhelm newcomers with minute details, it can come later, if at all.
Oh. I’ll check out that data sheet! Always interested in this kind of thing. I have used the LM386 in audio stuff before but most of the time I end up with TL072s because those are the ones most commonly used in Eurorack. Usually I consider those black boxes because circuit diagrams aren’t always in those data sheets. The LM386 data sheet is quite interesting, there are even oscillator schematics in there and if I just read it correctly it uses 10 transistors. I really don’t think any of that geekery is where people usually go when they build guitar pedal circuits though. Musicians are often gear heads but rarely full on electronics nerds who read data sheets 😂 It would be easy to build 20 pedals and not understand a single schematic, it’s really not necessary. I only added the explanation so that people know what to look out for in a Fuzz. It’s usually the different transistor types and the number of transistors that make the biggest difference and that’s easy enough to understand even for someone who doesn’t really care how it works and only wants it to sound cool. I always like knowing how stuff works, but I’m not a trained engineer. Just figuring this stuff out as I build more and more stuff. The Noise Cornucopia circuit kinda blew my mind in the way it uses that transistor. Basically it amplifies the noise the transistor itself generates. Makes for a really good noise source!
As @claudeviol3895 says, diodes can be doing the fuzzing, which is why there are fuzz pedals that use a switch to swap between diodes that clip at 0.6 to LEDs that clip at much higher voltages (needing a good amplified signal before the clipping). Some circuits have a three way switch and even use germanium diodes that clip at 0.3v to really fuzz it up. That said, you CAN have paired transistors doing a fuzz pedal. The Mastodon Fuzz kit from GuitarPCB does this, but in that case the transistors are a pair of NPN transistors. The circuit you show @9:59 has an NPN leading into a PNP and then through the diode bridge to the output. There would be another layer of fuzz in this, so that's pretty cool, and the effect of the mixed transistors would be an asymmetrical fuzzing: Clipping at a different level at the top and bottom of the signal can makes the fuzz sound better (another fuzz circuit I've seen have TWO diodes in series going one way, and only one diode the other, which leads to the signal being clipped at a different level) . Other circuits (like the Mastodon I mentioned) have a pot to bleed off a bit of the feedback looped from Q2 back to Q1, whilst this circuit is pretty simple and just jams it all back to Q1. Fuzz circuits are pretty simple.
Nice! That’s super interesting! I’m eager to explore different types of fuzz pedals to really figure out transistors properly. I assumed that the fuzz would be asymmetrical with the two different types of transistors, but wasn’t quite sure since this was the first fuzz circuit I really tried to explore in depth. I’m curious to poke around in my Companion Fuzz too! I was aware of the clipping diodes obviously, just didn’t want to confuse beginners with it. Would be a lot to take in when you don’t even know what the symbols mean yet. This is meant to be a series of videos and I wanted to talk about diodes in the next fuzz video. Sneaking electronics stuff into entertainment type videos is quite the tightrope to walk 😅 it’s easy to lose a non-tech audience with even a touch of technobabble, so I try to keep it as untechnical as possible. I wasn’t even sure whether I should put any type of explanation in there at all because it would have to be simplified quite a bit so as not to lose the target audience of the video. If I had thrown around the PNP and NPN and diodes and all that stuff the result would have been 🤯 for most of my audience. According to my Channel Analytics the people who watch my DIY videos are mostly musicians who like synth or guitar YT rather than electronics geeks who would know what a transistor is. For them an Amplifier would be some part of their stereo or their guitar rig most likely.
Interesting that my entrance to electronics was via guitar fuzz pedals. I had restored a few vintage record players - just because I was fascinated in how they worked and love taking things apart. I quickly realised I needed to learn how to read schematics as opposed to just swapping out old components with new ones. 'Painting by numbers' is a great analogy. My first pedal was literally following a RUclips tutorial. Then I came across 'Look Mum No computer' became obsessed with building a synthesiser, again, I guess with the interest of finding out how they work. I now need to learn how to create music with it! Your videos are simply brilliant, entertaining and love your approach to making music
Oh, that sounds like a very similar path to mine! I became interested in building synthesisers first though long before there was RUclips. I couldn’t afford any hardware back then so I always messed about with software modular stuff, trying to make music like that. Reaktor and that sort of thing. Never got very far with it until I had a real hardware modular in front of me. I just don’t click with virtual cables even though I often end up with a hybrid workflow, hardware + Ableton or VCV rack. I’m glad you enjoy my videos! I’ll make sure to put some music making workflow into the modular videos too when I get to them! It was a bit of a battle for me at first too, but once it clicks, there just isn’t anything like it!
Yeah, that’s right. Didn’t want to overwhelm beginners with too much information though. Obviously I simplified the explanation and left out quite a bit of stuff to keep things accessible for the target audience of the video.
hehehe, nice one, Lily! Next: a compressor for that ukulele bass! These can be interesting- optical , LED clippers, etc. Saturable opamps? With LDRs? And if you enjoy (old school) physics lab work, you can adorn the pedals with..decadic knobs. Not that they would need extremely precise settings and multi-turn pots, but.. why not? Changes the look immediately. Same for those little chromed handlebars usually found on rack equipment or switch protectors on aircraft and the like . Did a tele control plate for a buddy some years ago, he's mesmerized with the decadics...
LED clipping is definitely something I’d like to try. I’ve played with LDRs before too, especially in an Arduino environment. I still want to extend my darkroom enlarger with a simple exposure meter based on those too. Funny that you mention compressors! I’ve been researching the 1176 circuit recently because I don’t have anything other than a simple Behringer compressor pedal at the minute. That’s definitely on my list of projects to build now!
@@LillySchwartz Omg, lol so many. DoD Carcosa (that one is kind of unique with its simplicity and versatility). The Sunn O))) Life Pedal, Black arts tone works Pharaoh. 😉🤘🏽🖤
The Carcosa was already on my list! Put the other two on there as well, both sound interesting! Will take a while until I get to those though, I’ve got a few more common distortions and overdrives to build first that I don’t have yet. I’m building a Rat soon, that should get me close to the Life Pedal sound because I have a pitch shifter already!
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I definitely want to explore fuzz a bit more in my music, so I’ll be trying around with another DIY fuzz soon! Bell like stuff gets a bit harsh with it, but it’s really nice on synths actually.
@@LillySchwartz I know what you mean! I have an EHX Bass Big Muff pedal that I use (surprisingly enough!) for bass guitar, but also for my synth stuff occasionally. The voicing is aimed at bass frequencies, but still contains a lot of the higher-order harmonics which can sound nasally and harsh to my ears when the Sustain and Tone are turned up. The Volume control just adds more dry signal until it reaches 50:50 mix (rather than a true wet/dry mix). I much prefer to have a fuzz where I can control the blend between 100% dry and 100% wet signal.
Interesting about the Muff. I actually have a Big Muff kit sitting in my build pile because quite a few people seem to like the muff sound on their synths. About time I get that built! Curious to see whether the dry wet mix is like you describe. The kits I get tend to be quite faithful to the original, so I wouldn’t be surprised. If you’re interested there are quite a few versions of it on the Musikding website.
@@LillySchwartzI’d be interested in your experience with it. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely get a lot of use out of the Big Muff, more of a caveat when working with it and understanding its quirks and character. Good luck with the build!
@@BottleMakesMusic Thanks! I'll definitely make a video on it at some point, although of course these DIY vids always take me forever to make because I like to have all the music that accompanies them to be made with the thing I built. It always takes me a while to get warm with a piece of gear. I'll get there eventually though 😅
The good ol Fuzz is the way to go if first time in DIY pedals. For us retro folks better with germanium transistors 😀 I made a bunch of them about a decade or more ago and then went into another rabbit hole. Who knows what's next! 👍
They are definitely the easiest to build! And I also want to build one of those Germanium fuzz circuits! So many nice options for builds! The rabbit holes are deep aren’t they? Photography can definitely keep you engaged a while! Do you still make music?
Very creative indeed. Not only built the Fuzz Pedal, then demonstrated how it can be used with other instruments besides the guitar as well. I love music and electronics related to it, and I love to chill out in the Drone Zone too so I'm happy to find your channel and to be a new subscriber. 🤘🎸🤘 🤘🥁🤘
Oh, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I always loved Ambient guitar too! I was playing like that even before I knew what Ambient was, always trying to make my first guitar drone 😁 main reason why I never got any good at anything else on it 😅
I put a GK-3 midi pup on my Strat, so I could use it as a controller for all my synths. Highly recommended, but get a Fishman, it's wireless. Jeff Pearce has a great thing with ambient guitar, check him out!
Since I’m not much of a guitar player I don’t think the midi pup would help me much 🤣 Recently I’ve been considering an Aerophone because I had to learn the recorder as my first instrument. Would be one way to salvage that utter torture into something that would be useful for synth playing 😅 and thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check him out!
I like your videos especially about electronic and music stuff. Keep going👍 This time you also verified that the wisdom "Die Welt ist ein Dorf" is true - even in the internet. Was growing up with view to the mine dumps of the Wismut.
😂 That’s brilliant! The world definitely is a village! Years ago when I was living in Brighton I was listening to Nick Cave a lot and one day I cross the street while listening to one of his songs. Then I think to myself “Man, that guy over there looks like Nick Cave with a moustache!” Turns out he actually lived there and I had no idea 😅 Sometimes the world rhymes in strange ways like that. I always like coincidences like that.
And of course you can build them as modules. Just screw the PCB behind a panel and you have your own Eurorack model. Perhaps you name it "FuZzZinierend"🖖🏻😊 Greetings from good old Germany ❤
Can't decide what I like more, your videos, photography or music. So... I just picked up a copy of Endless Nights since I've been hearing parts of it so much in your videos. Show us more of whatever you feel like sharing, it's all good stuff :)
Oh, thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy what I do 😀 Funny how I wrote Endless Nights as the channel soundtrack and it has kinda taken on a life on its own and taken over the channel. Most of my subscribers seem to be here for the music now although I started this as a drawing channel and made photography videos for years? Funny how that goes 😅 lots of new stuff planned now!
@@LillySchwartz I think it has more to do with the way you present your subject rather than the subject itself. Sure, some may prefer music to photography but I would bet that you could make knitting videos and still find ways to make them enjoyable. It's a charisma thing!
Aw, thank you! I do sometimes make the occasional random video to reach new audiences, but knitting probably won’t happen 🤣 my pedal build and guitar projects were definitely the kind of thing where I was experimenting and those kinds of videos turned out to be the most successful. I mean, there is a significant view difference in the typical 1K+ views photography videos and the 20-50K music content. I think YT is trying to send me a message there 😁
Awesome video. When you said that soldering is one of the more difficult parts, and it just takes practice, I started thinking.. I need to learn how to remove bad soldering in case I mess up lol
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Frankly I find desoldering much harder than soldering! 😅 if you’re not careful you can lift the pad along with the component and then the only way to fix it is to repair the trace with a wire. I’ve done that before and the module worked in the end, but there was a lot of swearing involved 😅 soldering in itself isn’t difficult, it’s just more difficult than finding where to put the component. You don’t have to be afraid of it. There are also cheap soldering practice projects that you can buy, if you don’t want to worry about ruining a pedal kit. I think pedals are just as easy though and boards are cheap to replace! Pedal kits were my soldering practice projects basically 😀
Good onya Lilly..studio does look nice...I recently bought a fuzz pedal kit which uses strip board instead of pcb, but much the same/similar build/components to yours. I got one to run on battery for the volcas, and one with a dc power for the eurorack. Both of them are NOT working (i had partial success, then it failed)...oh well...will strip them down and start again. Have bookmarked that website//good prices.
Ah, sorry to hear your first DIY experience was a dud. I actually find strip board soldering more difficult than PCBs and for me that stuff never works reliably. My only strip board project that I have in use every day tends to be faulty half the time. I really need to get around to making a PCB version of that project. Musikding is definitely worth exploring and the wiring schematics are really helpful.
I don’t see why not! The PCB is definitely small enough. You just have to find a space for the stand-offs because otherwise it would be just floating about in the enclosure which would probably lead to shorts.
Music and sound design/ production is such a fascinating process. Combining hardware and software like Ableton is so interesting……endless options……where does one draw the line? 😂😂 ps…your new studio looks great
I love doing both together, analog and digital, in the box, outside it. I find hardware really inspiring, but I also like the flexibility of the DAW. Definitely not the DAWless kinda person. And my studio is so lovely now! Already inspired quite a bit of music! 😀
I guess you‘re a guitar player then? 😂This definitely isn’t the place to go for guitar demos, I play mainly synths and use my pedals on all sorts of other stuff. I guess you must have missed the disclaimer at 2:07 ?
Hey, the geek girl from Spain is back and this time she admits to being a nuclear girl and sometimes to be glowing in the dark. You're going to turn into a nerd by building pedals? Well, I don't think you're in danger anymore. ^^ Isn't the chirping of the MicroFreak filter more beautiful than any birdsong? Nah, just kidding. But I love this filter. "Strange rhythms" sounds like the melody of life. Your track is "wild"? I hope you never try to get a 303 then and start to be extermely wild! ^^
Haha, no, I was a geek girl already when I was a kid. I do learn a lot from these simple projects though. It really makes it possible to hone in on what each component does. The Microfreak is such a great synth all around! So many cool functions on it. Barely even scratched the surface with it. And digital oscillator + analog filter is always a great combo. It’s a nice filter for sure. As for 303: I’m still waiting for that Behringer LinnDrum clone! I’m gonna be all over that if it ever comes out.
LILLY! I need your help, advice, I just used my Press Camera after about 3 months I used Kodak 200 gold at the beach and its aweful. 200 doesent seem to like the sky and water it renders everything reddish. Normal photos with colorful items come out good, but it doesnt like clouds and water.
How are you evaluating those colours? Scans? Colour correction is a pretty difficult thing to get right when you’re scanning. My guess would be that you should throw a Color Balance layer on it in photoshop and tweak to correct a cast that your scanner software might introduce when it’s a very unbalanced picture. Water + sky is fairly blue and if you only have that in your picture your scanner software might want to go a bit overboard in the automatic correction. Ah, the joys of scanning.
@@LillySchwartz I have them developed, but I think I figured it out. I used a 150mm which is 63mm equivalent and I think any lens over 50mm doesnt give you clouds with detail...I think, I need to test this more.
😀 there is a contact form on my website and I also have a Facebook account that I occasionally open. I’m not very quick with responding to messages though, because I’m quite busy with all the stuff I do.
Leider nicht. Russischsprachige Familie aber selbst davon Russisch mit uns sprechen wurde meinen Eltern abgeraten als ich noch im Kindergarten war. Deutschland halt 🙄 Ich kann inzwischen Russisch mit dem Wörterbuch lesen, aber fließend geht anders. Ich nehm’s mir immer vor es zu verbessern aber ist halt immer einfacher was auf Englisch, Deutsch, Spanisch oder Französisch zu greifen.
Ich verstehe Deine Gründe und meine Mama liest viel mehr auf Ukrainisch jetzt, aber leider sind slawische Sprachen recht schwer zu lernen wenn man vom deutschen kommt. Der Plan war zuerst Russisch zu lernen weil es da viel mehr Lernresourcen gibt und es ist ja auch was meine Mama spricht. So war das eben zu der Zeit als sie da aufgewachsen ist. Ich hoffe bei Ukrainisch auch noch anzukommen, aber mit den slawischen Sprachen tu ich mich echt schwer.
😅 das hatte ich mit Russisch auch gehofft 🙃 meine übliche Methode ist kläglich an dem überproportional großen Vokabular gescheitert. Normalerweise lerne ich Sprachen durch’s Lesen, aber das ist sehr viel anstrengender wenn man sehr viele Wörter nachschauen muss. Momentan habe ich zum Sprachen lernen nicht viel Zeit. Zwischen den Videos und dem Musik machen und all den anderen Kram den ich so mache bleibt kaum Zeit. Es ist aber auf der Liste. Irgendwann komme ich auch da noch an!
@@LillySchwartz thats fine, I play or try to on and off, I buy things and not use them. I have a morley wah, that orange Boss pedal, a Rat pedal, none used.
@@monsieurgolem3392 I also have a DS-1! First pedal I ever bought. And I have a rat clone kit I'll be building soon. Don't worry about not using your stuff yet. I'm sure it'll come. I had my midi keyboard sitting around unused for 15 years and then wrote parts of my album with it. When the time is right, you'll shred. Just keep going.
@@LillySchwartz I had my electric longer, I can play some Beatle songs, along with some other random stuff, I think I prefer acoustic, cant control electricity.
Perfectly valid to prefer that! I don’t have an acoustic, just the electrics and they work well for the kind of music I like to make. It’s all very individual, isn’t it?
Congrats with your channel, please continue.
At the risk of sounding like mr Knowitall, a transistor isn't a lofi component, it's just an amplifier (a current amplifier). The clamping of the tops of the sinewave is due to the two diodes at the end. A diode only conducts current in one direction (the direction of the arrow), but while conducting it has a voltage drop of about 0.6 Volt (depending on type). With the two diodes in parallel but opposing direction, you basically clamp the sinewave or any signal between +0.6 and -0.6 Volt. Thereby creating the fuzz like sound.
Wouldn’t you say a transistor is Lo-Fi in comparison to an Opamp used in a more Hi-Fi scenario? Like an OPA134 perhaps? Those definitely have far less noise. I mean, I have a transistor as the noise source in the Noise Cornucopia I built. Pretty sure you couldn’t do that with an OPA134, hence, Lo-Fi in my book 😅 depends on your definition of lo-fi of course. And every resource I check says transistors clip too, not just the diodes. The wave coming out of Q1 was definitely quite kinked already. And of course I simplified those diodes away because the video was geared towards beginners who probably just want to know how to tell a mellow fuzz from a heavy one. Doesn’t mean those diodes don’t do anything, just that most people really don’t need to know what that is to figure out what kind of Fuzz they want to build.
@@LillySchwartz I suppose, a transistor being a non-linear component, you could call it low fi. Depends on how you use it. A high fi op-amp for instance is itself made using transistors. They use techniques and work-arounds minimize noise and distortion and yet have high amplification and / or bandwidth. These designs are way above my head.
The datasheet of this OPA134 unfortunately doesn't include a schematic diagram, i see it uses different types of transistors. The datasheet of the LM471 opamp (which i believe is not so good for audio) does include a block diagram, if you're interested.
But this comment has become way to techy already. And you're so right not to overwhelm newcomers with minute details, it can come later, if at all.
Oh. I’ll check out that data sheet! Always interested in this kind of thing. I have used the LM386 in audio stuff before but most of the time I end up with TL072s because those are the ones most commonly used in Eurorack. Usually I consider those black boxes because circuit diagrams aren’t always in those data sheets. The LM386 data sheet is quite interesting, there are even oscillator schematics in there and if I just read it correctly it uses 10 transistors.
I really don’t think any of that geekery is where people usually go when they build guitar pedal circuits though. Musicians are often gear heads but rarely full on electronics nerds who read data sheets 😂 It would be easy to build 20 pedals and not understand a single schematic, it’s really not necessary. I only added the explanation so that people know what to look out for in a Fuzz. It’s usually the different transistor types and the number of transistors that make the biggest difference and that’s easy enough to understand even for someone who doesn’t really care how it works and only wants it to sound cool. I always like knowing how stuff works, but I’m not a trained engineer. Just figuring this stuff out as I build more and more stuff. The Noise Cornucopia circuit kinda blew my mind in the way it uses that transistor. Basically it amplifies the noise the transistor itself generates. Makes for a really good noise source!
As @claudeviol3895 says, diodes can be doing the fuzzing, which is why there are fuzz pedals that use a switch to swap between diodes that clip at 0.6 to LEDs that clip at much higher voltages (needing a good amplified signal before the clipping). Some circuits have a three way switch and even use germanium diodes that clip at 0.3v to really fuzz it up. That said, you CAN have paired transistors doing a fuzz pedal. The Mastodon Fuzz kit from GuitarPCB does this, but in that case the transistors are a pair of NPN transistors. The circuit you show @9:59 has an NPN leading into a PNP and then through the diode bridge to the output. There would be another layer of fuzz in this, so that's pretty cool, and the effect of the mixed transistors would be an asymmetrical fuzzing: Clipping at a different level at the top and bottom of the signal can makes the fuzz sound better (another fuzz circuit I've seen have TWO diodes in series going one way, and only one diode the other, which leads to the signal being clipped at a different level) . Other circuits (like the Mastodon I mentioned) have a pot to bleed off a bit of the feedback looped from Q2 back to Q1, whilst this circuit is pretty simple and just jams it all back to Q1. Fuzz circuits are pretty simple.
Nice! That’s super interesting! I’m eager to explore different types of fuzz pedals to really figure out transistors properly. I assumed that the fuzz would be asymmetrical with the two different types of transistors, but wasn’t quite sure since this was the first fuzz circuit I really tried to explore in depth. I’m curious to poke around in my Companion Fuzz too! I was aware of the clipping diodes obviously, just didn’t want to confuse beginners with it. Would be a lot to take in when you don’t even know what the symbols mean yet. This is meant to be a series of videos and I wanted to talk about diodes in the next fuzz video. Sneaking electronics stuff into entertainment type videos is quite the tightrope to walk 😅 it’s easy to lose a non-tech audience with even a touch of technobabble, so I try to keep it as untechnical as possible. I wasn’t even sure whether I should put any type of explanation in there at all because it would have to be simplified quite a bit so as not to lose the target audience of the video. If I had thrown around the PNP and NPN and diodes and all that stuff the result would have been 🤯 for most of my audience. According to my Channel Analytics the people who watch my DIY videos are mostly musicians who like synth or guitar YT rather than electronics geeks who would know what a transistor is. For them an Amplifier would be some part of their stereo or their guitar rig most likely.
Interesting that my entrance to electronics was via guitar fuzz pedals. I had restored a few vintage record players - just because I was fascinated in how they worked and love taking things apart. I quickly realised I needed to learn how to read schematics as opposed to just swapping out old components with new ones. 'Painting by numbers' is a great analogy. My first pedal was literally following a RUclips tutorial. Then I came across 'Look Mum No computer' became obsessed with building a synthesiser, again, I guess with the interest of finding out how they work. I now need to learn how to create music with it! Your videos are simply brilliant, entertaining and love your approach to making music
Oh, that sounds like a very similar path to mine! I became interested in building synthesisers first though long before there was RUclips. I couldn’t afford any hardware back then so I always messed about with software modular stuff, trying to make music like that. Reaktor and that sort of thing. Never got very far with it until I had a real hardware modular in front of me. I just don’t click with virtual cables even though I often end up with a hybrid workflow, hardware + Ableton or VCV rack. I’m glad you enjoy my videos! I’ll make sure to put some music making workflow into the modular videos too when I get to them! It was a bit of a battle for me at first too, but once it clicks, there just isn’t anything like it!
Those diodes in front will clip also at about .5V, so they are adding hard clip (square wave) to the output.
Yeah, that’s right. Didn’t want to overwhelm beginners with too much information though. Obviously I simplified the explanation and left out quite a bit of stuff to keep things accessible for the target audience of the video.
I’m looking forward to watching your video about the build of the phaser pedal.
I’ll make it a priority then. Already started writing the music for that one so it should be coming soonish 😀
me too, thanks
Oh. two votes for that one! I better get on with it then 😂
hehehe, nice one, Lily! Next: a compressor for that ukulele bass! These can be interesting- optical , LED clippers, etc. Saturable opamps? With LDRs? And if you enjoy (old school) physics lab work, you can adorn the pedals with..decadic knobs. Not that they would need extremely precise settings and multi-turn pots, but.. why not? Changes the look immediately. Same for those little chromed handlebars usually found on rack equipment or switch protectors on aircraft and the like . Did a tele control plate for a buddy some years ago, he's mesmerized with the decadics...
LED clipping is definitely something I’d like to try. I’ve played with LDRs before too, especially in an Arduino environment. I still want to extend my darkroom enlarger with a simple exposure meter based on those too. Funny that you mention compressors! I’ve been researching the 1176 circuit recently because I don’t have anything other than a simple Behringer compressor pedal at the minute. That’s definitely on my list of projects to build now!
Thanks for sharing, intresting stuff...
Super awesome! Great work dude. Fuzz Doom Pedal next ☠🤘🏽. And 14:15 sounds awesome
Thank you so much! Which Fuzz Doom Pedal do you have in mind? I’m always looking for cool stuff to build 😀
@@LillySchwartz Omg, lol so many. DoD Carcosa (that one is kind of unique with its simplicity and versatility). The Sunn O))) Life Pedal, Black arts tone works Pharaoh. 😉🤘🏽🖤
The Carcosa was already on my list! Put the other two on there as well, both sound interesting! Will take a while until I get to those though, I’ve got a few more common distortions and overdrives to build first that I don’t have yet. I’m building a Rat soon, that should get me close to the Life Pedal sound because I have a pitch shifter already!
Thank you for sharing your awesome projects. Love your work!
Aww, thank you! I’m glad you enjoy what I do! 😀
I really like the projects and the way you present. Looking forward to more.
Thank you so much! There will be more coming soon! 😀
Fascinating insight into your music production workflow. Loved the fuzz pedal build. Definitely has some interesting harmonics going on.
Thank you, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I definitely want to explore fuzz a bit more in my music, so I’ll be trying around with another DIY fuzz soon! Bell like stuff gets a bit harsh with it, but it’s really nice on synths actually.
@@LillySchwartz I know what you mean! I have an EHX Bass Big Muff pedal that I use (surprisingly enough!) for bass guitar, but also for my synth stuff occasionally. The voicing is aimed at bass frequencies, but still contains a lot of the higher-order harmonics which can sound nasally and harsh to my ears when the Sustain and Tone are turned up. The Volume control just adds more dry signal until it reaches 50:50 mix (rather than a true wet/dry mix). I much prefer to have a fuzz where I can control the blend between 100% dry and 100% wet signal.
Interesting about the Muff. I actually have a Big Muff kit sitting in my build pile because quite a few people seem to like the muff sound on their synths. About time I get that built! Curious to see whether the dry wet mix is like you describe. The kits I get tend to be quite faithful to the original, so I wouldn’t be surprised. If you’re interested there are quite a few versions of it on the Musikding website.
@@LillySchwartzI’d be interested in your experience with it. Don’t get me wrong, I definitely get a lot of use out of the Big Muff, more of a caveat when working with it and understanding its quirks and character. Good luck with the build!
@@BottleMakesMusic Thanks! I'll definitely make a video on it at some point, although of course these DIY vids always take me forever to make because I like to have all the music that accompanies them to be made with the thing I built. It always takes me a while to get warm with a piece of gear. I'll get there eventually though 😅
The good ol Fuzz is the way to go if first time in DIY pedals. For us retro folks better with germanium transistors 😀
I made a bunch of them about a decade or more ago and then went into another rabbit hole.
Who knows what's next! 👍
They are definitely the easiest to build! And I also want to build one of those Germanium fuzz circuits! So many nice options for builds!
The rabbit holes are deep aren’t they? Photography can definitely keep you engaged a while! Do you still make music?
@@LillySchwartz Ah no, all that really ended about 30 years ago when i was 20. Since then i fidle around with this and that.
I know what that’s like. I stopped making music for quite a long while too. Eventually it made a comeback. It’s never too late to start again 😀
Very creative indeed. Not only built the Fuzz Pedal, then demonstrated how it can be used with other instruments besides the guitar as well. I love music and electronics related to it, and I love to chill out in the Drone Zone too so I'm happy to find your channel and to be a new subscriber. 🤘🎸🤘
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Thank you! I’m glad you enjoy these sorts of videos! There will be more coming soon! ✨
Crazy cool! Love Ambient Guitar.
Oh, I’m glad you enjoyed it! I always loved Ambient guitar too! I was playing like that even before I knew what Ambient was, always trying to make my first guitar drone 😁 main reason why I never got any good at anything else on it 😅
I put a GK-3 midi pup on my Strat, so I could use it as a controller for all my synths. Highly recommended, but get a Fishman, it's wireless. Jeff Pearce has a great thing with ambient guitar, check him out!
Since I’m not much of a guitar player I don’t think the midi pup would help me much 🤣 Recently I’ve been considering an Aerophone because I had to learn the recorder as my first instrument. Would be one way to salvage that utter torture into something that would be useful for synth playing 😅 and thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check him out!
I like your videos especially about electronic and music stuff. Keep going👍 This time you also verified that the wisdom "Die Welt ist ein Dorf" is true - even in the internet. Was growing up with view to the mine dumps of the Wismut.
😂 That’s brilliant! The world definitely is a village! Years ago when I was living in Brighton I was listening to Nick Cave a lot and one day I cross the street while listening to one of his songs. Then I think to myself “Man, that guy over there looks like Nick Cave with a moustache!” Turns out he actually lived there and I had no idea 😅 Sometimes the world rhymes in strange ways like that. I always like coincidences like that.
And of course you can build them as modules. Just screw the PCB behind a panel and you have your own Eurorack model. Perhaps you name it "FuZzZinierend"🖖🏻😊
Greetings from good old Germany ❤
Ah, but Eurorack without CV control isn’t quite modular! I’m thinking of making a CV controllable Big Muff perhaps. Shouldn’t be too difficult! 🖖
Can't decide what I like more, your videos, photography or music. So... I just picked up a copy of Endless Nights since I've been hearing parts of it so much in your videos. Show us more of whatever you feel like sharing, it's all good stuff :)
Oh, thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy what I do 😀 Funny how I wrote Endless Nights as the channel soundtrack and it has kinda taken on a life on its own and taken over the channel. Most of my subscribers seem to be here for the music now although I started this as a drawing channel and made photography videos for years? Funny how that goes 😅 lots of new stuff planned now!
@@LillySchwartz I think it has more to do with the way you present your subject rather than the subject itself. Sure, some may prefer music to photography but I would bet that you could make knitting videos and still find ways to make them enjoyable. It's a charisma thing!
Aw, thank you! I do sometimes make the occasional random video to reach new audiences, but knitting probably won’t happen 🤣 my pedal build and guitar projects were definitely the kind of thing where I was experimenting and those kinds of videos turned out to be the most successful. I mean, there is a significant view difference in the typical 1K+ views photography videos and the 20-50K music content. I think YT is trying to send me a message there 😁
Awesome video. When you said that soldering is one of the more difficult parts, and it just takes practice, I started thinking.. I need to learn how to remove bad soldering in case I mess up lol
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it! Frankly I find desoldering much harder than soldering! 😅 if you’re not careful you can lift the pad along with the component and then the only way to fix it is to repair the trace with a wire. I’ve done that before and the module worked in the end, but there was a lot of swearing involved 😅 soldering in itself isn’t difficult, it’s just more difficult than finding where to put the component. You don’t have to be afraid of it. There are also cheap soldering practice projects that you can buy, if you don’t want to worry about ruining a pedal kit. I think pedals are just as easy though and boards are cheap to replace! Pedal kits were my soldering practice projects basically 😀
Good onya Lilly..studio does look nice...I recently bought a fuzz pedal kit which uses strip board instead of pcb, but much the same/similar build/components to yours. I got one to run on battery for the volcas, and one with a dc power for the eurorack. Both of them are NOT working (i had partial success, then it failed)...oh well...will strip them down and start again. Have bookmarked that website//good prices.
Ah, sorry to hear your first DIY experience was a dud. I actually find strip board soldering more difficult than PCBs and for me that stuff never works reliably. My only strip board project that I have in use every day tends to be faulty half the time. I really need to get around to making a PCB version of that project. Musikding is definitely worth exploring and the wiring schematics are really helpful.
Do you think that it can be housed in a mini pedal ty enclosure?
I don’t see why not! The PCB is definitely small enough. You just have to find a space for the stand-offs because otherwise it would be just floating about in the enclosure which would probably lead to shorts.
Bonjour, j'aime ton travail et ça me réconforte sur le mien, merci
Merci beaucoup! ✨
Music and sound design/ production is such a fascinating process. Combining hardware and software like Ableton is so interesting……endless options……where does one draw the line? 😂😂 ps…your new studio looks great
I love doing both together, analog and digital, in the box, outside it. I find hardware really inspiring, but I also like the flexibility of the DAW. Definitely not the DAWless kinda person. And my studio is so lovely now! Already inspired quite a bit of music! 😀
Thanks for the 1 note of how it sounds @13:30, I guess lol
I guess you‘re a guitar player then? 😂This definitely isn’t the place to go for guitar demos, I play mainly synths and use my pedals on all sorts of other stuff. I guess you must have missed the disclaimer at 2:07 ?
Hey, the geek girl from Spain is back and this time she admits to being a nuclear girl and sometimes to be glowing in the dark.
You're going to turn into a nerd by building pedals? Well, I don't think you're in danger anymore. ^^
Isn't the chirping of the MicroFreak filter more beautiful than any birdsong? Nah, just kidding. But I love this filter.
"Strange rhythms" sounds like the melody of life.
Your track is "wild"? I hope you never try to get a 303 then and start to be extermely wild! ^^
Haha, no, I was a geek girl already when I was a kid. I do learn a lot from these simple projects though. It really makes it possible to hone in on what each component does.
The Microfreak is such a great synth all around! So many cool functions on it. Barely even scratched the surface with it. And digital oscillator + analog filter is always a great combo. It’s a nice filter for sure.
As for 303: I’m still waiting for that Behringer LinnDrum clone! I’m gonna be all over that if it ever comes out.
Does anyone know were i can buy a full kit i want to try this as my first build
I bought the kit here, Jeff:: www.musikding.de/The-Boss-Fuzz-kit
@@LillySchwartz thanks
LILLY! I need your help, advice, I just used my Press Camera after about 3 months I used Kodak 200 gold at the beach and its aweful. 200 doesent seem to like the sky and water it renders everything reddish. Normal photos with colorful items come out good, but it doesnt like clouds and water.
How are you evaluating those colours? Scans? Colour correction is a pretty difficult thing to get right when you’re scanning. My guess would be that you should throw a Color Balance layer on it in photoshop and tweak to correct a cast that your scanner software might introduce when it’s a very unbalanced picture. Water + sky is fairly blue and if you only have that in your picture your scanner software might want to go a bit overboard in the automatic correction. Ah, the joys of scanning.
@@LillySchwartz I have them developed, but I think I figured it out. I used a 150mm which is 63mm equivalent and I think any lens over 50mm doesnt give you clouds with detail...I think, I need to test this more.
@@LillySchwartz or, ISO 400 may just so happen to be better for skies...my photos with 400 came out nice.
Nice! :)
Thank you, Sina! 😀
Nice lizzzzzzy👍
Fuzzzzzzy 😀
@@LillySchwartz Fuzzy lizzy? ^^
You are beyond cool
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How can I get in contact with you? I’m interested in chatting or being friends! 🙂
😀 there is a contact form on my website and I also have a Facebook account that I occasionally open. I’m not very quick with responding to messages though, because I’m quite busy with all the stuff I do.
You built this yourself?
Yes! I love music DIY stuff!
@@LillySchwartz I’m going to email you. I’ve been doing it since middle school and I’d love to talk about our projects and plans!
A part of your family is from Ukraine! Cool! 🇺🇦 Sprichst Du Ukrainisch? 😉
Leider nicht. Russischsprachige Familie aber selbst davon Russisch mit uns sprechen wurde meinen Eltern abgeraten als ich noch im Kindergarten war. Deutschland halt 🙄 Ich kann inzwischen Russisch mit dem Wörterbuch lesen, aber fließend geht anders. Ich nehm’s mir immer vor es zu verbessern aber ist halt immer einfacher was auf Englisch, Deutsch, Spanisch oder Französisch zu greifen.
@@LillySchwartz Vielleicht solst Du besser Ukrsinisch lernen und nicht Russisch zu verbessern. Die Sprache ist viel schöner! 😉 Grusse aus Kiew! 🇺🇦
Ich verstehe Deine Gründe und meine Mama liest viel mehr auf Ukrainisch jetzt, aber leider sind slawische Sprachen recht schwer zu lernen wenn man vom deutschen kommt. Der Plan war zuerst Russisch zu lernen weil es da viel mehr Lernresourcen gibt und es ist ja auch was meine Mama spricht. So war das eben zu der Zeit als sie da aufgewachsen ist. Ich hoffe bei Ukrainisch auch noch anzukommen, aber mit den slawischen Sprachen tu ich mich echt schwer.
@@LillySchwartz Es ist nicht so schwer wie es aussieht, besonders wenn Du bereits Kyrillisch lesen kannst 🤓
😅 das hatte ich mit Russisch auch gehofft 🙃 meine übliche Methode ist kläglich an dem überproportional großen Vokabular gescheitert. Normalerweise lerne ich Sprachen durch’s Lesen, aber das ist sehr viel anstrengender wenn man sehr viele Wörter nachschauen muss. Momentan habe ich zum Sprachen lernen nicht viel Zeit. Zwischen den Videos und dem Musik machen und all den anderen Kram den ich so mache bleibt kaum Zeit. Es ist aber auf der Liste. Irgendwann komme ich auch da noch an!
You didnt build that, stop lying😅. Joking, you shred?
Well, shred, not so much, but I definitely drone 🤣
@@LillySchwartz thats fine, I play or try to on and off, I buy things and not use them. I have a morley wah, that orange Boss pedal, a Rat pedal, none used.
@@monsieurgolem3392 I also have a DS-1! First pedal I ever bought. And I have a rat clone kit I'll be building soon. Don't worry about not using your stuff yet. I'm sure it'll come. I had my midi keyboard sitting around unused for 15 years and then wrote parts of my album with it. When the time is right, you'll shred. Just keep going.
@@LillySchwartz I had my electric longer, I can play some Beatle songs, along with some other random stuff, I think I prefer acoustic, cant control electricity.
Perfectly valid to prefer that! I don’t have an acoustic, just the electrics and they work well for the kind of music I like to make. It’s all very individual, isn’t it?
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