How to build...
RME-5
guitar effect unit.

Four distortion circuits and one phaser. (It might be expanded with more effects in the future!)

It began 1996 when a friend (who plays guitar) asked me if I could put some distortion units with a wide span of sounds, and a phaser together in a box with possibilities to switch between rhythm channel and lead channel and, of course, bypass both distortion and phaser. The result is this!

Please click on the items on the map to view each scheme!


The power supply.
Switching module.
The block scheme of RME-5.

For you who can't see the image above:
The rhythm distortion unit 1. (Originally based on Stellan Lehrberg's "Rocky Head".)
The rhythm distortion unit 2. (with germanium diodes.)
The rhythm equalization unit. (Two fixed and one parametric section.)

The lead distortion unit 1. (Originally based on Stellan Lehrberg's "Rocky Head".)
The lead distortion unit 2. (Originally based on Ibanez FC-10.)
The lead equalization unit. (Two fixed and one parametric section.)

Phaser. (Phasing with FETs.)


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Last updated: 092097.

Robin Tomtlund
My e-mail address: robin2@hem1.passagen.se

http://hem1.passagen.se/robin2/rme5.htm

© Copyright 1997 lead 1 lead 2 rhythm 1 rhythm 2 lead eq rhythm eq phaser