is there a way i can turn an old cell phone into guitar distortion/effects pedal?

i just have it lyin around and i wanna find some new sounds for my guitar without spending alot of money, if u know of any cheap homemade effects let me know

Depends of your level of computer science/digital electronics knowlege to be honest. You could possibly add two jack connections, one wired to the pins of the phone microphone and one wired to either the headset speaker pins, or the speaker which plays ringtones. You’d then want to write a digital distortion algorithm probably using a low level language for whatever chip is in the phone. It’ll sound crap and take hours and hours of hard work and probably many "urrrrgh, work damn you!"s but it’s probably possible.

Or you could gut it, google fuzz face schematics and fit a fuzz face circuit in there for pretty cheap.

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2 Responses to “is there a way i can turn an old cell phone into guitar distortion/effects pedal?”

eatitupwormshero on January 16th, 2010 at 8:05 pm

Depends of your level of computer science/digital electronics knowlege to be honest. You could possibly add two jack connections, one wired to the pins of the phone microphone and one wired to either the headset speaker pins, or the speaker which plays ringtones. You’d then want to write a digital distortion algorithm probably using a low level language for whatever chip is in the phone. It’ll sound crap and take hours and hours of hard work and probably many "urrrrgh, work damn you!"s but it’s probably possible.

Or you could gut it, google fuzz face schematics and fit a fuzz face circuit in there for pretty cheap.
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*basketball star_:) <3* on January 16th, 2010 at 8:55 pm

sorry dude i don’t even know what that iz…….sorry i couldn’t help
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