Category Archives: Effect Pedal Circuits

Gain effect pedals: distortion, overdrive and fuzz

Gain effect pedals include multiple families of circuits; the most important ones are boosters, overdrives, [...]

Electronics tutorials: the Operational Amplifier (II) – Circuit Analysis

In our first post about OpAmps we stated the basic principles of operation of this [...]

Electronics Tutorials: Diodes and LEDs (II)

In the introduction post about LEDs and diodes we covered what is a semiconductor material [...]

Electronics Tutorials: the Capacitor (II)

In the previous post we presented one of the most used electronic components: the capacitor. [...]

Electronics Tutorials: The BJT Transistor (II)

In the last post we introduced a widely used device in effect pedals: the BJT [...]

Electronics Tutorials: the JFET (II) – Circuit analysis

In the first JFET post we presented this semiconductor device along with its basics, like [...]

Effect pedal circuits: the Buffer

Audio buffers provide a high input impedance for the audio signal and a low output [...]