The Ze (h) NDrive (DIY) fresh from the workshop: My first selbstgelöteter ground effect.
In the ongoing search for the best sound (which guitarist does not?) I've been looking at various DIY projects and came across Uwe K's Zendrive clone. Inspired by the many positive feedback and sound samples (Greeting from UTube ...) I ordered the kit. On a day we went to the Pistons:
are electrostatic between my knowledge, say like me, rather mediocre and pretty rusty. Uwe (
http://www.uk-electronic.de/ ) Thanks be to the whole was still not rocket science - the description of "painting by numbers", I found this on the Web makes it actually quite good. In a few hours, the part was finished, except for two errors that I still had to repair:
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confuse the assignment on the input jack I have managed to destroy instead of the battery-activated, the input signal. Genial!
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The first time I had Recording on parallel to the "gain" signal to the clean sound are unchanged at the output. Interesting - but not what I wanted. I suspect that this was due to a cold solder points on the gain pot (maybe later I build a switch to this bug targeted to enable ...).
Sound: The most prominent class, creamy, as promised. 'm Looking forward to the Ernst case volume in the sample chamber.
Here is a picture of the inner life: I have kept strictly to the distribution of the diodes on Uwe's specifications (the two BAD41 diodes with each other), irritating some other pictures on the web notwithstanding. And that was good ...
want more? Of course! I have not decided what is coming - possibly a replica of a Electro Harmonix Frequency Analyzer or an Xotic RC. Schaumermal ....