☑ Diode Clipper Pedal

This is getting to the point of needing an faq since ive written this enough times but heres the scoop or at least part of it on diodes. In the schematic above you can see hard and soft clipping diodes.

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Diode clipper pedal. Diode clipping circuits this clipping of the input signal produces an output waveform that resembles a flattened version of the input. Clipping diodes are like ice cream. I came up with.

Lots of people will just get a toggle and only do 2 variations of clipping diodes. You might think that with the gate tied to the source the gate threashold is the clipping level of the setup but this is not the case. Germanium diodes are a preferred choice for use in distortion guitar pedals for their unique sounding characteristics when clipping an audio signal.

Real tube overdrive isnt possib. More diode clipping for effects this is a typical connection of mosfets used as clippers for a guitar distortion pedal. Amplifier overdrive and distortion is usually achieved by signal clipping pushing the gain until the signal peaks are chopped off.

Add diode clipping distortion to your guitar amp. Choosing the clipping diodes to your distortion can be the most fun part of the designing process. I actually suggest getting a rotary and putting in 4 or more combinations.

In most cases people use diodes and pose diode related questions for purposes of clipping and distortion. The last modded tubescreamer pedal was a great success. Germanium clipping is softer than that of regular rectifier silicon diodes.

I wanted to add a rotary switch to change between 6 different types of diode clipping to change the overdrive characteristics. For example the half wave rectifier is a clipper circuit since all voltages below zero are eliminated. Heres a relatively simple way to add some bite to your old guitar amplifier.

Actually the best thing to do is to temporarily run 2 wires out of the pedal and temporarily sub in diode combinations.