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A month or so back while recording, my Small Stone started producing a cool volume envelope-like sound instead of its usual phasing sound. I was powering it with a battery, which was old, and replacing it restored the pedal’s original function, so I suspect that the effect was due to low battery.
Anyway, I want to replicate this effect. I’m not very good with circuit design or any theory thereof (I’m a biology major, so I apologize if my reasoning here sounds stupid), but I thought that since the effect was probably because the dying battery was not supplying enough voltage to the pedal, I could power the pedal with a power adapter and use a variac to change the voltage. However, a couple of my electrical engineer friends say that doing this might damage the circuit.
Is there any modification I can make to the Small Stone to replicate this effect? If push comes to shove, I will probably either invest in (or more likely build, for frugality’s sake) a simple volume pedal, but I’d rather do something to the pedal, because the recording sounded really cool.
Thanks!
You can wire in a 100K pot to the 9v+ supply, adjusting it will decrease voltage and the effect will change.
Sounds cool. That shouldn’t be harmful to the rest of the circuit, right?
(Again, sorry for my naivete in this field)
(Again, sorry for my naivete in this field)
It would be exactly the same as having a dying battery. No harm at all.
Sweet, thanks! I will try this out.
if you don’t want to mod your pedal, you could build one of these:
http://www.beavisaudio.com/Projects/DBS/
Wow, i didnt even know there was something like this. this is so cool.
I know…I’ma probably build one or more of these…
Thanks for the link, julian!