(penny for your thoughts) Re: [sdiy] Anything to square convertion

[Cynthia Webster]

Peter

Isn't simply a germanium transistor all it takes to make a good Square wave?

Essentially it's a fuzz box circuit... Amp the waveform up until you clip it
and then lowerthe clipped output for unity with the input.

(are any chips at *all* required)?
Hey it's a Fuzzface - in Waveshaper's clothing?

The effect of gamma rays on man in the moon Germaniums?  Naw!

My 1 cent's worth (as in a penny for your thoughts)



on 4/23/02 9:29 PM, Peter Grenader at petergrenader at mksound.com wrote:

> Had an ah-PIFF-amy..
> 
> Is it really lame-o to use a 4053 to convert another waveshape to square or
> pulse?  Was thinking about the easiest way to do that.  Figured ground into
> the normally closed side of one of the switches, and a pot and VC input
> gating +v to the normally open.  Put any waveshape at the enable pin by way
> of a tranny and bang - you've got a waveshape at the output the goes
> immediately to the two signals preset at the two poles of the switch each
> cycle.  The VC input of the normally open end could would operate as an
> amplitude VCA or better yet,  an ON/ OFF.  Stick a flip-flop in there and
> you've got a programmable on/off.
> 
> I know it will work, cause I tried it on my Doepfer VC switch which uses a
> 4053.
> 
> any comments on the lame0ness of this idea?
> 
> 
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