PWM

Here’s a great distortion/fuzz circuit from Tim Escobedo (http://www.geocities.com/tpe123/

folkurban/fuzz/snippets.html). It uses a couple of gates from a 40106 Schmitt trigger chip to
generate a unique distortion sound. The 386 chip is used to boost the guitar signal to a high
enough level to feed the 40106. In fact the 386 part of the circuit could stand on its own as a dirty/
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overdrive booster or distortion. + - + -
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9 volts +
U1c 4 4
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Input 1 7 7
C3 C4
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3 U1a 4.7nF U1b 100nF 8 8

LM386
VR1
LM386 5 40106 40106 A100K
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VR1 10
B500K Output
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in 13 13
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Mods! out 16 16
For more gain from the 386 section, add a 4.7 uf electrolytic from pin 1 to ground. 17 17

4.7nf
Connect the positive side to pin 1 and the negative side to ground. 18 18
Try both the LM386 and the NJM/JRC386 chips to see which sounds better to 19 19

40106
you. 20 20
Voltage Sag! Audio circuits based on this chip can get squishy and compressed 21 21
when you lower the voltage. Try turning down the voltage a bit on the i/o breakout 22 22

100nf
box to experiment. 23 23
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B500K
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A100K revision: 1.0 ● 28 may 2008 ● © 2008 beavis audio research

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