FROM THE BUILDER’S MIND
EARTHQUAKER DEVICES
DATA CORRUPTER
I’ve always been
interested in
ways of making
the guitar sound
less like a guitar
and more like a
synthesizer. Sure, I
could just actually
learn to play the
synth but I already know how to play the
guitar and I design pedals. Seems like a no-
brainer to just make something that can
emulate what I’m looking for, right? I think
I’ve stopped and started about a million
different guitar synth pedals over the years.
I always get hung up on the frequency to
voltage conversion circuits, because they are
a real pain to tune. At some point, I came
across the CD4069 Phase Locked Loop IC.
This archaic littl