Low budget ringmod

Little-Scale shares this tutorial for building your own ring modulation filter for guitar – cheap, but effective!

This circuit is made up of two main functions – a square wave generator and a switching mechanism. By using the square wave generator to control whether an electronic pathway is open or closed (ie. whether electricity is conducted between two points), a signal from a sound source is switched on and off at a constant, periodic rate.

– Step-by-step ringmod

From the pages of MAKE:

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