Tone Bender Stomp Box - DIY

[CJ]

used the Aion FX Tonebender board and fabbed a retro box,

bought some Western Electric transistors from a guy on evilbay who matched them for the bender and it sounds great! Germanium, uses positive ground via a polarity flipper IC so you can power it from the same supply as your negative ground stuff,

 

[CJ]

made a DIY chassis bender out of 3/8 inch angle iron and bent some 22 ga , wrinkle gold finish, uni POSCA acrylic pencil and brush for lettering,some guy wants hundreads of dollars for the same box , orig is 4 inches wide by 8 inches long, , we scaled this down to 3 1/4 x 7,

info here>

https://aionfx.com/app/files/docs/deimos_documentation.pdf
WE 12N transistors here>

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115423649523

 

[Gus]

used the Aion FX Tonebender board and fabbed a retro box,

bought some Western Electric transistors from a guy on evilbay who matched them for the bender and it sounds great! Germanium, uses positive ground via a polarity flipper IC so you can power it from the same supply as your negative ground stuff,

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I built a Si based one you need to read the thread for the final resistor values. In the thread there is a good youtube that you can hear how it sounds. I got the voltages close to the Ge version
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