I’ve been musing about guitar pedals for a while now; several past attempts at a tremolo have been instrumental learning experiences for me. As it happens, the knowledge I have now about transistors gives me hope for a new, cleaner tremolo pedal down the line. Harmonic tremolo was always an interest too, as when I was first designing my tremolo pedal a couple of years ago there wasn’t really any popular version in the pedal market. Since then, JHS have come out with an affordable tremolo pedal with a switch to alter it to a harmonic mode – so much for me taking the market by storm.

I think the next thing that I would like to try and manufacture is a dual wavefolding circuit, with impedances set up so that it can function with a guitar. The lockhart wavefolder below seems like a great place to start and I have pretty much all the parts barring that NPN transistor. I think that a wavefolder pedal with modulation options would be fantasticly psychedelic, and the notion of gigging with my own pedal designs is very alluring.