Stompville Shop Update

We finally bit the bullet and gave up on trying to update the old version of the shop so we are installing the latest version of Abante Cart and we will re-populate it with products. Unfortunately, this means that we will not be bringing over customer data and previous order data. We apologise for this,… Read More »

Phantom Piezo Preamp – new version available

Updated 1st December 2019 Updated 10 May 2018 Updated 1 June 2018 December 2019. Time moves on and the PF5102 has been discontinued by On-Semiconductor and is nearly unobtainium. It looks like the J111/J112/J113 are the only TO-92 JFETS suitable for our purposes. We are currently sampling the J113. Some Piezo Preamps will be shipped… Read More »

JFET guitar/instrument buffer pedal

Following on from our articles on the Unbalanced piezo preamp and Guitar leads, buffers and true bypass we present a project to build your own JFET buffer pedal. The circuit is essentially the same as in the unbalanced piezo preamp with a few tweaks and may be built into a Hammond 1590B or similar stomp-box… Read More »

Re-amper revisited

Update: reStomp re-ampers available for sale in the shop. Back in 2012, I wrote about re-amping and offered a design for a transformer-coupled interface between balanced-line output from a professional recording device and the unbalanced and lower-voltage input to a guitar amplifier. If you’re not familiar with re-amping, the idea is that you record (say)… Read More »