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.”

Still deciding on finish options for these pedals, but I’ll probably mix it up between laser-engraved wooden faceplates, hand-sealed printed paper graphics, vinyl graphics, UV printing, and good old fashioned screen printing. I might even try making my own rubber stamps to do full-face stamped artwork. That might be neat.

Tap Tempo Optical Tremolo is First!

First up in the series is a tap tempo optical tremolo.  The design is finished, I just need to make some adjustments to the PCB layout for better hardware spacing. It’s got three waveforms: sine, triangle, and square wave. Other controls, as you might expect, are: Speed, Depth, and Volume.

Other Projects Coming Next

More details to come! But other projects in the pipeline that are more or less complete in terms of design include: delay with envelope-controlled modulation, tap tempo oscillating filter (think of a LFO-controlled wah), a very unique “one-chip” tremolo that has both audio and LFO in a single logic IC, and a few different dirt boxes as well.

Stay tuned!