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Frequency Divider Pedal

Here is a newly-built effect, it is a modified "Rocktave Divider" with selectable frequency divisors and a super overdrive setting. It will make a guitar sound like a Hammond B3, well sort of. It shifts down one octave and adds a divide by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7 8, 9 and 10 signal. It incorporates a pair of divider circuits as well as the NE571 compander chip for enhanced dynamics processing. It looks homemade because it is. The PC board was ordered online but my version titled "mystery project" was made on perf-board as a prototype. While not as cool as a modern digital pitch shifter, there is no delay, or lag time that is associated with effects such as the "whammy pedal" by Digitech. It isn't as clean, but oh well...

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Uploaded on February 7, 2007
Taken on February 5, 2007