Aleph Null Special Sauce

 I'm a big fan of Brian's, aka Aleph Null's, circuit designs he's been kind enough to share over on the MadBean forum. Here's one of his latest offerings, the Special Sauce. In his own words, "It's a short delay with envelop control pitch bending. This makes for unique chorus, doubling, slap back, and vibrato effects." More info here.

Sentinel

The Sentinel is a PT2399-based pitch modulator, delay, reverb and drone verb designed by Arnoud Philip (~arph) as part of the DIYSB 10th Anniversary design contest. It's based on the Sewer Pipes ring-verb and the Noise Ensemble. Original thread here, schematic here. Should be able to squeeze it into a 1590B. 

Note: LED2 in the layout is a bi-color LED that could be used externally as a rate indicator or even the on/off indicator. For the later, use the footswitch to break/connect the connection between the common cathode (middle lead) and the 1k resistor going to ground at the top of the board. Also, the 25k trimmer is a fine tune control for the Drone pot.

Death by Audio Robot

For Fuzz Friday, here's another wild and wacky one from DBA:

The Robot is a low fidelity 8 bit pitch transposer with absolutely no feelings what-so-ever. It is completely synthetic and transforms any input into a spuree of resynthesized robot jargon.

Originals need a dedicated power supply as the HT8950 chip runs off 2.4-4 volts and the power section of the original will not play nice daisy chained with other pedals. To make it a little more user friendly, I've altered the power supply to use a 3.3v regulator (LM1117V33C or similar, though watch the pinout). Here's my modified schematic:

Note: I've also included 4 extra pads on the PCB layout in case anyone wanted to do the mod lvlark describes here.

Mid-Fi Deluxe Pitch Pirate

This was a request from my friend Cody from They Remained Silent blog. The Pitch Pirate is a vibrato/chorus pedal, and the deluxe version adds a PT2399 based delay. It also has the ability to modulate over an octave as well as control the waveform of the modulator, giving you a huge range of tonal options.

Notes:
You can go the home-brew route and put a 1M LDR and LED in some shrink tubing or there should be enough space to use a VTL5C2 photocoupler. Adjust the trimmer at input till there's no unwanted distortion.

Jen HF Modulator

Jen was an Italian electronics company that produced a lot of OEM stuff for other companies (Vox, Gretsch, etc.) as well as marketing their own line of effects. For instance, the HF Modulator was the same effect as the Gretsch Playboy.

This effect is a ring modulator and sounds fantastic with a fuzz pushing it. The original unit used 2N5172 transistors (which have BCE pinout), but I've laid this out for more common 2N3904 or 2N5088 transistors (that have CBE pinout). I've also added pulldown resistors, polarity protection, and power filtering.

Here's the schematic if anyone needs it. Most of the ones online have the tone section wrong.