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Do you want to learn about building guitar stompbox
circuits? Have you been frustrated before by soldering,
or trying to buy the right parts? Have you tried your
hand at various kits, but want to learn more about how
circuits actually work?
Do you want to hear how certain designs sound before you plunk down
your hard-earned cash on boutique or commercial pedals?
Well my friend, I think I may
have something that will interest you: the beavis board.
The beavis board is designed to give you a platform
for learning and building. If you can follow along with
simple instructions, you can start building and modding
a classic and new stompbox circuits.
- Frustrated Newbie? I guarantee that you will
be successful with the beavis board, even if you been
frustrated by building in the past.
- Intermediate
Builder? Already have a few kits under your belt and
want to go to the next level? The beavis board makes it
easy to test-drive new circuits, mod, and come up with
your own designs.
- Seasoned Professional? Hey, you've already
have breadboards and a great parts stash, so the beavis
board probably won't be for you.
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The beavis board makes it easy to:
- Build a huge array of stompbox circuits including
overdrives, distortions, fuzzes, filters, amplifiers, tremolos,
noise generators, oscillators, and more.
- Learn about the different components and how they work to
shape your guitar's signal
- Modify stompbox designs to tailor your sound.
- Easily try out your circuits through a
true-bypass breakout box
- Have a giant buttload of fun
How it works
The beavis board is comprised of the following things:
- a true-bypass i/o breakout box that makes it easy to connect
circuits to the real world, i.e. your guitar, amps and pedals
- A pair of breadboards to build on
- A big collection of components: resistors, capacitors,
transistors, ICs and more, specially selected for building some
of the coolest stompbox/audio circuits
- A digital multimeter (DMM) that makes learning and
troubleshooting much easier.
- The Hacker's Guide to the beavis board, a comprehensive
guide that shows you how to easily build and mod circuits
- The beavis board projects: 25 projects (and growing)
with a clear description, schematic, and easy breadboard layout
guide. Plus, most of the circuits have great mod ideas so you
can tailor each circuit to your tastes.
Tell Me More about the Circuits I can Build
Breadboard layouts are included for loads of great projects:
MXR Distortion + ● LPB-1 ●
Brian May Treble Booster
● Gretsch Controfuzz
SHOw Booster ●
Orange Squeezer Compressor ●
Muff Fuzz
DOD Overdrive 250 ●
Fuzz Face ● Muff Fuzz ●
EA Tremolo
Cigarette Amp ● Ruby Amp ● Noisy Cricket
Amp ●
Trotsky Overdrive
Atari Punk Console
● Dual Oscillator Tone Generator
Boutique Tube Screamer ● PWM ● Red
LLama
567 Modulator ●
Bazz Fuss
Mockman
● IC Buffer ● JFET Buffer
and more are being added to the list!
Learn more about the
projects
So How Hard is it Really?
It is really simple actually! I've been through a lot
of frustrating projects myself, and talk to folks all
the time via email about the most common problems that
keep people from having a great stompbox-building
experience. I've take all that knowledge and
designed the beavis board to make those problems go
away. If you can follow some basic instructions, and are
willing to invest just a little bit of time, you'll be
surprised about just what you can do.
But wait, can't I just buy a breadboard?
Yes! You can buy a breadboard. What the beavis board does is a
little different.
Different? How? Read the the philosophy part....
What about Pedal Kits?
The beavis board is not a replacement for
pedal kits. Pedal kits allow you to build things that
you can mount on your pedalboard, and there are a lot of
great kits out there. Rather, the beavis board is an
augmentation of, or a precursor to, pedal kits--it is a great way to build a
large array of great circuits, learn more about how the
parts work, and mod circuits to come up with your own
personal sound. In the meantime, if you are looking for
complete single-pedal kits, you should check out:
www.olcircuits.com
www.buildyourownclone.com
www.generalguitargadgets.com.
Download the Hacker's Guide to the beavis board
Want to learn more? Download the whole manual as a
PDF and check it out for yourself. Even if you don't want to buy a
beavis board, the manual has lots of good information for your
projects.
The Hacker's Guide to the beavis board
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