Hi Zappacat,
No I can't afford all that kind of $teck test gear$.
This is the cheats way,, It's called *Computer Aided Simulation*.
I use Circuitmaker, the student version (Free up to 50 components)
Like all modelling don't rely on it as perfect but It gives one the ability to grasp what kind of Tone response you are likely to get from a schematic you wish to use,,, makes short work of stomp box circuits.
Say you're breadboarding a circuit and your not sure where your loosing the bass?
well Sims can help ,, Draw up the schematic on screen then just click on different parts of the circuit and it gives you the AC plot *at every point* in the circuit.
Quite frankly it's put me light years ahead and I highly recommend it,,,
Even if your understanding of electronics is limited (which of course includes Me)
it won't take you long to catch onto how it works, and how to use it.
If you are good at software/computers and you know how to find the signal path through a circuit,,
then you qualify.
Test whatever you want,, even if it's way wrong,,,heck you can't blow anything up with sims! There will be some setup paremeters that need to be tweaked to get the AC Analiysis happening.
Being able to *SEE* just how much the tone shape is altered and Which part is actually doing the distorting as it passes through each component opened up a whole new world,, hence my grasp of how amps work (TONE) is vastly different than the early days of just thowing money away on every new gizmo.
Cheers, Phil.
No I can't afford all that kind of $teck test gear$.
This is the cheats way,, It's called *Computer Aided Simulation*.
I use Circuitmaker, the student version (Free up to 50 components)
Like all modelling don't rely on it as perfect but It gives one the ability to grasp what kind of Tone response you are likely to get from a schematic you wish to use,,, makes short work of stomp box circuits.
Say you're breadboarding a circuit and your not sure where your loosing the bass?
well Sims can help ,, Draw up the schematic on screen then just click on different parts of the circuit and it gives you the AC plot *at every point* in the circuit.
Quite frankly it's put me light years ahead and I highly recommend it,,,
Even if your understanding of electronics is limited (which of course includes Me)
it won't take you long to catch onto how it works, and how to use it.
If you are good at software/computers and you know how to find the signal path through a circuit,,
then you qualify.
Test whatever you want,, even if it's way wrong,,,heck you can't blow anything up with sims! There will be some setup paremeters that need to be tweaked to get the AC Analiysis happening.
Being able to *SEE* just how much the tone shape is altered and Which part is actually doing the distorting as it passes through each component opened up a whole new world,, hence my grasp of how amps work (TONE) is vastly different than the early days of just thowing money away on every new gizmo.
Cheers, Phil.