This is Part III of a multi part series on building your own effects. See Part II and Part I Here.

I Finished the prototype of 'Bunny Cruncher', my cute little distortion unit. Thanks to 'D A F', Harry Bissell and Aaron Bader from the SDIY mailing list, I was able to get the output to a much more acceptable level. I changed the collector resistor to a much lower value, (10K) and added a biasing resistor. The Biasing resistor is super high in value, but it works. I also changed the caps to 10uF. Now it distorts just fine. A few more tweaks and revisions, and I'll have something hella cool.

Next up on my plate is to get a pure sine-wave sent to it, and start to really tweak with the diodes and see what kind of interesting effects I can make out of it.

I also did the schematic in eagle this time. MUCH BETTER. Eagle is much easier to use when laying out a schematic, but there is some VERY deep mojo going on there. If I were to try and make a PCB with the schematic as stands, it would fail. Badly. Mostly because there is a disconnect between the components that I have, and what is actually displayed. For instance, the 2222A transistor I have is in the typical black plastic crescent moon shape, but the one displayed in Eagle is one of the weird cylindrical metal units. Here is the schematic in Eagle Format

Ah well. Cross that bridge when I get there.