Showing posts with label Death By Audio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death By Audio. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Death by Audio Octave Clang

There was already a layout in the forum section but not on the main page.
This version should easily fit in a 1590B box.
Original FSB thread and schematic available here.


Sunday, 12 February 2017

Death By Audio Apocalypse - On-Hold

Original FSB thread and schematic available here.
Rotary Switch is 2P5T and they are not always numbered.
I've called the 2 poles A & C.
When the switch is on "A-1" position on the other side is on "C-1" position... and so on.
Original circuits' schematics use Ge diodes but the Apocalypse's one doesn't. Need to test.
-Layout updated to latest schematic!


Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Death By Audio - Echo Dream 2







Monday, 19 October 2015

Death By Audio Evil Filter

Here is the layout of an unreleased DBA pedal.
You can find the original FSB tread HERE
Thanks to Anders for verifying it!

Here's the video of a clone:




Monday, 12 October 2015

Death By Audio Reverberation Machine

Info about the original:
The Reverberation Machine is a synthetic atmosphere creator. Use the effect on any instrument to add depth and simulate different environments. Experiment and combine a variety of settings to obtain the perfect ambiance for your sound.
The controls on this pedal are straightforward. Volume, Altitude, Reverb Blend and two distinct reverb flavors: Bright Sunshine and Dark Star. Altitude adjusts the gain structure of the reverb and the clean simultaneously creating exciting new reverberation soundscapes that span from subtle to wild.

Although the controls are extremely easy to use and intuitive, there is a vast array of sounds. Everything from simulations of vintage amp verb, playing in a cave, large concert halls, and space ships being sucked into wormholes.


UPDATE! Test values between 0 & 10K for R1 to improve Bright Sunshine side.



Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Death by Audio Kill Kill Filter

The Kill Kill Filter is a dual filter pedal with a semi-truck of attitude! 2 identicle eq's can be switched back and forth on the fly for an endless seeming changing sounds as you play. Create a new lead sound and then another! Blast in a solo! Chunk out on a heavy riff! You call the shots! It's mean and evil and sounds absolutely amazing after a fuzz pedal creating some of the most seething intense tones ever heard!!!

You'll notice the wiring for the main stomp is slightly modified with connections for the LED switching shown in the layout.  You can use the rest of the usual offboard wiring diagram for the audio switching and so lugs 4 to 9 remain as normal.   So the main switch will bypass the effect completely and the Filter switch will select which filter is in circuit and which LED is illuminated.

Not my cup of tea but I'm sure you glitchy filter noise fuzz thing lovers will dig it,






Friday, 11 April 2014

Death By Audio Sound Saw

I would advise caution before you proceed :o)

This has been put together after a request, but it's based on a schematic of unknown origin so I don't know whether the scheme even works never mind the layout.

A couple of things do make me think it could be a good trace though.  The volume pots are wired in an unusual way which I have seen from DBA before, although for this layout I have changed them to the more usual volume pot configuration that we are used to, purely to remove unnecessary daisy chaining and so make connections simpler - their functionality in the circuit remains identical.  It also looks like a mish mash rats nest of a circuit, which again points to authentic Death By Audio :o) (just joking guys).

As this is a gamble at this stage, it may be one to do with pots in a breadboard first rather than soldering them, but as long as you know the score from the outset, if it's something you want then please let us know so we can verify the scheme and layout or bin the post entirely.

Update 12th April: Now corrected and verified so no longer a gamble :o)

Here is the schematic it is based on for those who may want to follow it




The pot numbering shown in the schematic is the reverse of the convention and so I have swapped lugs 1 and 3 where necessary.  As noted above the volume pot connections have been altered to our usual:

Volume 1 ground
Volume 2 output
Volume 3 input

Only the second stomp switch connections are shown in the layout.  The main bypass stomp switch is wired as per usual, and with a separate LED to show when bypassed.  Then the LED mentioned in the layout (assuming using bi-colour) displays the selected channel.

One of the LED resistors was shown as 100K which seems huge to me even for a ultra bright LED, so I've just included a single 3K3 resistor for current limiting, which can be used for a common anode bi-colour LEDs with stomp 2 switching the ground connections.

Anyway, enough waffle, here's the info about the original:

trash the system. make your fuzz pedal kill, kill, kill. everyone will scream in terror. here is the SOUND SAW. 2 unique channels of huge thick quasi-eq filters to intensify your wall of sound. blast your way out of the mix and sound enormous. the one channel of the SOUND SAW cuts a selectable frequency and boosts the hell out of the frequencies around it while the other is an active bass to treble blaster. LED of selected engaged filter dims when bypassed to let you know which channel is active. the SOUND SAW is capable of nice creamy tones or huge amounts of boosting, feedback insanity, cutting, sub woofing, room shaking, glass breaking frequencies to make you have the most intense sound possible.

Sound Samples:






Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Death By Audio Robot - modded

This was my take on the DBA Robot but with individual switching for the IC internal functions (Vibrato, Robot and any of the octave options on the fly) rather than the rotary switch used in the original.  I thought it would be more versatile to be able to control them all individually rather than be stuck with the choices dictated by the original scheme, and all the sounds will be there with the correct settings of the toggles.  The Gain control has also been taken external after a recommendation from albru80.

I think it's probably not really worth including both and up and down momentary switches on reflection as that only chooses the direction that you step through the octave choices.  So maybe removing one of those makes more sense.  I'd suggest reading through the datasheet and deciding yourself what to include.

Info about the original:

The Death by Audio Robot is the latest in a line of sonic mayhem inducing pedals from our boys in NYC. The Robot brings Death by Audio into the low-fi, bit-crushing business. This insane pedal is a lo-fi pitch transposer that produces sweet, 8-bit ring mod effects to your guitar. The Robot features four operational modes; Normal, Octave Up, Octave Down, and Arpeggiator. The Octave Up and Octave Down modes are pretty self explanatory. The Control knob, when fully clockwise, yields either octave up or down depending on the mode. When turned down, it bends the pitch of the octave down so you can dial in the exact tone you want. In Normal mode the Robot acts as a lo-fi fuzz pedal and the Control knob bends the pitch down from clockwise. The amount of fuzz can be further toyed with using the internal gain control. Now the fun part. The Death by Audio Robot also features an arpeggiator. The pitch will arpeggiate in a sequence and the Control knob will adjust the speed of the arpeggiation. It also makes a slight change in the pitch, allowing the arpeggiator to go higher. With all this fun, who needs anything else? Arpeggiation, whacky robotic nonsense, and 8-bit fuzz fun are all jam packed together in the Death by Audio Robot.








Tuesday, 23 October 2012

Death By Audio - Soundwave Breakdown

One for the Fuzzynoise-ophiles.  Description of the original:

The Soundwave Breakdown takes the idea of a screaming fuzz pedal and turns it inside out. It uses specially matched transistors turned backwards to get it's bombastic sound. The one knob controls extreme biasing of one of the transistors and the other controls intense filtering. Although this sounds simple the results are perplexing. The combination of allow a vast universe of fuzz | distortion | overdive | buzz | grind | bleeps | synth sounds | harmonies | and soundwave manipulation. The exact positions of the knobs yield completely different sounds for endless great insane fuzz tones.

Video of the 2 knob version, this layout for the 3 knob version with additional volume control.





Thursday, 10 May 2012

Death By Audio - Harmonic Transformer

A huge pedal with a huge sound. Complete with enough alien noises to freak out your listeners. Direct crazy intermodulating distortion to make unique music with. The Harmonic Transformer is an extremely loud and intense fuzz pedal which is very interactive with the incoming signal ranging from over the top to bizzare.





Monday, 2 April 2012

Death By Audio Supersonic Fuzz Gun

Now verified but note changes in pot lug connections from the original layout posted.  If you're going to build this then use the latest layout shown below.

Info from the makers:

Need to melt peoples brains with supersonic chaos?
Want a different sound than everyone else?

For an endless amount of full, insane, buzz sawing, jaw dropping sounds the supersonic fuzz gun can do it all.

The supersonic fuzz gun is a completely unique and huge sounding fuzz pedal. The goal of the pedal was to make a fuzz with the capability of having an immense range of great and usable fuzz sounds. The controls are completely interactive with each other to give the wielder an infinite number of great tones. There are extremely (and i mean exremely) harsh sounds available and extremely (yes i mean it again) warm sounds available. It does it all.    

Controls:
Bias - changes the overall sound of the fuzzing
Density - affects the frequency range going into the pedal
Fuzz - increases the distortion of the signal
Filter - filters out the high frequencies of the output and smooths out the insanity
Level - controls the master output volume of the pedal
Gate/oscilation - switches between a gated fuzz tone and an oscillation fuzz sound