Pedals for Sale - EffDub Audio

After much tweaking and some setbacks, I’m pleased to announce that my take on the classic “hard-rock / vintage metal” sound is, at long last, ready for public consumption. This one is 100% “discrete” in the sense that there are no integrated circuit components (operation amplifiers or other ICs). It’s all field-effect transistors doing the amplifying and clipping…there aren’t even any clipping diodes in this circuit. There ARE diodes in the circuit, but they are for polarity and over-voltage protection (not in the audio path). Read More

Pedals for Sale

August 31, 2024 effdub

Actually, it’s a different tremolo coming first: CMOS Eisley

Just got these boards in today and have begun the first prototype build. It’s an optical tremolo with both the audio path and LFO made from a single CD4049 CMOS hex inverter. Despite having it all function in a single IC, there is no LFO ticking in the audio. Two of the inverters are the audio path (input and output amplifiers), and three more inverters are arranged as a low-frequency oscillator. And the last inverter is unused (I may do another iteration later that uses this last inverter to add a bit of grit/drive). Read More

Pedals for Sale

August 4, 2024 effdub

Coming Soon: Tap Temp Optical Tremolo

I’m pleased to announce the first of a few pedals that will be hand built by me in small batches and sold as cheaply as I can manage. There are cheap Chinese pedals galore these days, but I want to try and get as close to I can to slave-labor prices but made in the USA. Think of it as “shabby chic” or maybe “bespoke” rather than old-school “boutique.”