[sdiy] Silly Stompbox Question

[harrybissell at prodigy.net]

Hi Theo (inline)

>Slightly OT and probably no "right" answer available either
>but maybe some one with a six string fetish can help me in the right
>direction.
>I am building a guitar stomp box version of my wave shaper circuit.
>The input level has a rather large influence on the sound of this circuit.
>Therefore I like to know what the "typical" input level range for a stomp
>box effect is.

Most guitars have peak levels of 500mV to 1V... average from
50mV to 150mV, depends on pickups, the gorilla hitting the strings,etc.

>Do I need to cover both "pickup" (mic?) and line level input signals or is
>just "pickup" level enough?

Usually 'just' guitar pickup range is good.  Don't plan on mic inputs
unless you are sure the user will want to do that. Waste o time imho.

>Also how much Vtop/top is "pickup" level anyway.

I don't understand this terminology (unless I answered it above ;^)

H^) harry
>TIA,
>Theo


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