Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever built or considered building high-power versions of circuits such as the venerable fuzz face or big muff? The thought crossed my mind the other day and its been bubbling around my head since then. By high-power I don't mean using a higher power supply, but actually changing all the parts to handle higher currents and voltage. IC based circuits are certainly unfeasible, as there are no 50 watt bbd chips on the market, although op-amp based designs could be made discrete I suppose. So, yeah, just thought I'd get some feedback on this idea. 😛
I don"t see the purpose ..... an effects pedal that had high output current/voltage would not be interfacable with an amp because an amp expects a low level signal ......
Also getting Higher power transistors with the same gain as a Small signal transistor would be difficult and fets would be near impossible .....
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Also getting Higher power transistors with the same gain as a Small signal transistor would be difficult and fets would be near impossible .....
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oh yeah im aware of that. im talking about post-amp processing... of course this would be extremely inefficient and troublesome, but it would be interesting to have something like this, just because... i suppose it'd be fun to brag about a fuzz face capable of driving a speaker cab on its own
I once put a full wave bridge rectifier between the output of my fender vibro-champ and the speaker.
The octave doubling effect was very interesting indeed. jer
The octave doubling effect was very interesting indeed. jer
yeah, opamp rectifiers are far superior for pure octave-y goodness, but not good for post-amp operation unless youre willing to shell out a few hundred bucks for a high-voltage Apex... or make a high voltage discrete opamp...
I did not mean putting the opamps on the output of the amplifier.
But I did try various diode configurations for distortion sounds.
After that moved to building effects on the preamp side of things. jer
But I did try various diode configurations for distortion sounds.
After that moved to building effects on the preamp side of things. jer
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Diode clipping in feedback loop of a power amp works just as well as it does with a generic lower current, lower voltage OpAmp. You only need to tweak the clipping forward voltage higher to make the effect any worthwhile (~500mVpeak output from a power amp is really good for nothing). I've seen this type of scheme used in several guitar amps.
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