For my next project, I took a stripboard design from BrianQ and deadbugged it to make a crude dirt box. This circuit uses an LM386 (audio amp IC) to create a simple distortion circuit with symmetrical clipping.
You can read BrianQ's original article (complete with schematic) here: https://cigarboxnation.com/profiles/blogs/let-s-talk-lm386-part-3-w-stripboard-dirt-box-layout
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Thanks AD and BrianQ. It was a fun little build and it sounds pretty darn good.
Awesome!!! I am smiling? Fun Stuff! It’s verifiably Dirty!!! And thanx for verifying!!! That was actually based on the Dead Easy Dirt circuit which was a popular search some years back. I wanted to show what can be made other than amps with this often misunderstood Audio amp? I have a 2nd part to this about adding a DPDT On/Off Switch & external Power Jack. My next article after will be on the Lil’ Gem amp, then another popular LM386 Dirt box? I love to build! I like to glue those Dead Bug style builds to a flat piece of scrap, it’ll quiet down if circuit & main connections are anchored down? Solder joints weaken every time a wire jostles about, that’s where the noise is prolly coming from? Great, recovery on that cheese box mishap!!! Every time I put a prototype in a recycled container like that, my wife rolls her eyes like OK..........
Fun stuff Kale ! took me back a fjew years !! BQ is smiling now ! reminded me of the harpjug a fjew years back , sounded screemy aswell !
Thanks Bob. Building pedals is always fun.
That’s cool!
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