Analog effects, was "Midifiying a sega genesis"

[seppoman]

http://highlyliquid.com/kits/mpa/assembly.html

They´re MCP42xxx from Microchip. They are available for free sampling (or at least they were two years ago, didn´t check today).

Seppoman

[stryd_one]

Thx mate. Think I'll stick with the ones we know :)

[Artesia]

Good to see conversations plodding along nicely on these lines :)

..if i get round to it, i'll do a little test with pwm, led & a ldr ... n' let you know how well that solution works :) ..its a sweet way round a dac mind :)

[DrBunsen]

That would be great!  There were positive indications in another thread for slow-moving and not very accurate CV like filter cutoff.  Would love to see your results.

At a fast enough rate, perhaps even a simple bitstream would do.  i.e. successively drop bits out of the stream for a lower CV.

[DrBunsen]

Just found this site selling tiny analogue FX boards.  Each board is 1 3/8" x 2", assembled, comes with pots, switches and jacks, and US$40-50. They're designed to mount inside guitars.  From the look of them, nothing you couldn't make up yourself from web schems and perf board, but still.

[stryd_one]

Yeh I saw those a few days back too, but I was too busy laughing at how hard they tried to hide the BBD chips from view ;)

[DrBunsen]

Yeah, like why would you hide them??  Because they look like chips, and chips=digital?  To a guitarist.

[stryd_one]

Nah I reckon because people interested in these are obviously not DIY-phobic and if they see the label on the chip they might google it and discover that they're 

nothing you couldn't make up yourself from web schems and perf board

;D

[DrBunsen]

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• Pultec EQP-1a Program Equalizer
  
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• Tube Direct Box
  
• Redd.47 Microphone Preamlifier

All DIY gear was built over the last three years and is currently in use in my home studio.

I've added it to the WIKI links  ;D

[robwillis]

Interested yes i am.

:P

I was actually on the list for x0xb0x a long time ago but when i changed universities they deleted my email account so I never got access to buy. :(

[Ashiman]

I bet big money these are resultado's of prodigy-pro.com forum projects.

Besides it takes a big wallet to buy those in& out transformers that makes up for the vintage name