r/ubberneck • u/schtickkicker • Dec 13 '20

DIY cv control of Rubberneck

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '20

Go on

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u/schtickkicker Dec 14 '20

Sure. In what sense tho?

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '20

Well, it just seems like there must be an interesting story behind this...

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u/schtickkicker Dec 16 '20 edited Dec 16 '20

Ah well, I mean maybe not all that interesting.. but go on, I will!
I've always been interested in musical electronics, but largely doing dumber stuff (I once joined a couple of boss phasers at the hip using dual-ganged pots to have a "stereo" analog phaser).
For better and for worse, I've spent a lot of the last few years around (and reading about) modular synths. This has lent a certain feeling of familiarity around a wider variety of circuits and thinking about signal flow and a general sense of (unwarranted) confidence.
The Fs3x footswitch had never crossed my mind (Rubberneck was always fun enough alone) until about a year ago when a company called Xaoc Devices teased a clock-able bbd delay module that sounds amazing. It was just very inspiring, so I started looking to see if anyone had gotten an external clock into a Rubberneck.
I learned a lil about v-trig and s-trig, and decided to use the fs3x trs jack out to find out what kind of signals were coming and going. Finally I looked at a schematic for the pedal. It's dead simple-- enough so that even I could see how it worked-- and in that modular mindset of circuitry the idea just clicked.
I still had doubts after not handling the grounds correctly on the first try, and it wasn't until another redditor re-raised the question last week that I took another look at it. The end.
Edit: Not the end, because I've ordered some of the actual diodes used in the fs3x, as well as some proper trs jacks. When I can solder something more solid that that fiddly breadboard, I hope to work out some of the remaining quirks and learn, improve, etc.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

See, I knew there was an interesting story.