Inspiration
From a young age, I’ve loved listening to heavy rock music. What I loved even more was watching the artists play their instruments with such precision, carefully choosing what combination of effects works best with the rest of the composition. I would watch as the guitarists step on a specific series of effect pedals, generating sounds varying from neverending sustain to a subtle fuzziness.
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Instead of buying a pedal, I decided to look into making one. I found a very thorough explanation and guide from ElectroSmash.
Simulating
Before building the pedal, I wanted to hear how it would sound. I built the circuit in LTspice using the values provided, but needed a way to put real audio into the circuit. From LTspice documentation, I learned that I can import and export audio in the form of .wav files.
My next step was recording a very short audio clip in Audacity and exporting it as a .wav file into the appropriate LTspice folder.
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