a general layout for 'blend' ?

[Paul Marossy]

I just built the ROG Splitter Blend thing. It's pretty cool. Now I need to figure out exactly how I am going to implement it into my rig...

[plexiplud]

You mean adding a gain stage in it?

no no as in, I have my MXR Dist III, and i want to put a clean blend circuit into it, so the output will be a blend of clean and the wet effect, preferably with a knob to control the overall blend of the two..

so where would i put the blend circuit into the existing circuit of the Distortion III ?

[moaner70]

"so where would i put the blend circuit into the existing circuit of the Distortion III ?"

It's more a case of building the blend around the effect. Without drawing a block diagram it goes like this, INPUT SOCKET > BLEND CIRCUIT > BLEND SEND > MXR Dist III > BLEND RETURN > BLEND CIRCUIT > OUTPUT SOCKET.

I guess if you where to use the same enclosure you would disconnect the jack sockets from the MXR Dist III and connect them to the Blend circuit. Then wire the MXR Dist III circuit board directly to the send and return of the blend circuit.

cheers
Mark

[amonte]

I'm reviving a 2 year old topic, but I'm interested in doing the same thing - blending a clean signal with an MXR Distortion III.

Looking at the schematic (http://analogguru.an.ohost.de/193/schem ... on-III.gif) and the Buff n' Blend (http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/bl ... NBlend.gif), I was wondering if I could simply add a cap at the junction of R14 and C6 and bringing the circuit together at C5 (to have the clean signal effected by the tone control) or at the junction of R1 and VR1. That should work, right?

[JiM]

I'm reviving a 2 year old topic, but I'm interested in doing the same thing - blending a clean signal with an MXR Distortion III.

Looking at the schematic (http://analogguru.an.ohost.de/193/schem ... on-III.gif) and the Buff n' Blend (http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/bl ... NBlend.gif), I was wondering if I could simply add a cap at the junction of R14 and C6 and bringing the circuit together at C5 (to have the clean signal effected by the tone control) or at the junction of R1 and VR1. That should work, right?

You probably need to isolate the "clean" signal path from the clipping diodes with something better than R18 if you connect at R5. The tone stage opamp will do that if you connect after R1.
But in both cases it will squeal like a pig, because you are actually adding positive feedback to the gain stage.

Furthermore, some kind of clean boost may be required on the dry signal path to match with the increased volume of the wet signal. To avoid the feedback, at least a buffer (amplifier with unity gain) is required on the dry path, having some gain on tap is then virtually free.

Eventually, adding those buffers starts looking a lot like most blend circuits, doesn't it ?

[moaner70]

That sounds about right, I don't know enough about the MXR Distortion III input (Q4 and Q1) to say where to tap into the circuit. I'd be inclined to just add my blend send onto R10 and then the blend return onto VR1 but don't listen to me I like to keep things simple! Have fun and experiment. I've always used the B.Blender circuit with full buffers. I've built a couple and had no problems.

[moaner70]

I also made another layout for blend using just one IC here

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8546

[squigette_82]

So how would you do this if you wanted to blend another effect into a pedal (instead of clean) For example if you had an overdrive pedal that you wanted to dial in some fuzz. What order would the Overdrive, fuzz, and blend circuits need to be in to make this possible?

[moaner70]

Just put one pedal in your normal effects chain and the other pedal within the blend circuit. Instead of blending clean/fuzz it will be overdrive/fuzz. The choice of what of pedal to put within the blend is yours, whatever sounds best.

[squigette_82]

But what if you wanted the blend knob in the same pedal. Like how a sparkle drive has a blend in it, but to blend in the fuzz.

[DeIVIoNaN]

I know this is an old tread but, am using moaner70's one ic layout here.. http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8546
i still have to get the ic this week, putting this in a loop on a looper im building...

See if it works

[stompthis]

I know this is an old tread but, am using moaner70's one ic layout here.. http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=8546
i still have to get the ic this week, putting this in a loop on a looper im building...

See if it works

If it doesnt:
I had excellent results with this very very simple circuit-

http://diy-layout.com/29