Mid-Fi Electronics - Glitch Computer

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Doug mentioned on ILF that he's discontinued this one this summer.
http://www.ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php?f=145&t=26715
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I wanna know how this one works!
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Great, now it's gonna be even harder to find and reverse.
I built a Slacktave once that kinda sounded like a Glitch Computer because I had screwed something up. Maybe the GC uses a CD4024 as well?

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Actually, from the keyboard of Doug Deeper himself "it uses a 4013 a 386 and a 741...all in the wrong ways!!!"

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rousejeremy wrote:Actually, from the keyboard of Doug Deeper himself "it uses a 4013 a 386 and a 741...all in the wrong ways!!!"
Thanks for the info. I sent Doug a very caffeine/insomnia fueled email a while ago, asking about it & tossing out my own speculations. He didn't respond and I was wayyyyyyyy off anyhow.
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If anyone knows of anyone with a Glitch Computer, get some pics!
I even put an ad on Craigslist trying to get some gutshots.

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I was asked from someone on r/guitarpedals to take pictures of the insides of this crazy beast and post em here. enjoy! hope this helps http://imgur.com/a/OoeVz

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Man, I've wanted to put together one of these for a long time (it's near impossible to grab one locally).

Nice of you to post the shots, man.

I see a CD4013, LM741, LM386 (JRC variant), 10uF cap (blue), 2x 10k resistors (light brown), can't tell what value the pink resistors, transistor, diode, pots and the grey cap show and there's no underside so I can't trace it (is the back of the board covered with something?).

Does Doug still post around here?

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the back of the board is covered with cardboard and appears to be pretty well epoxied together. I don't know anything about fixing pedals and I don't wanna risk harming it :( sorry

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There's a voltage regulator in there. No transistor.
A couple .01uf caps, a .1, a couple 47uf, a 10uf.
The 741 is massively abused...as is the 386.
The cardboard is hot glued on, you may be able to pop it off,
But there is a resistor on the bottom of the board that may rip off.

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No pics of the bottom of the board? Looks simple enough to figure out, and an AMAZING PEDAL!

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Hi, everybody, lingering around here for quite some time.
I´m necro bumping this,
any news about this?
Best, TFS

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