Hey all!
I found this bitcrusher pedal circuit: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2012/10/analog-bit-crusher.html
I think I may try and attach something like that to my cheap karaoke dynamic microphone. The dynamic only has a hot wire and a ground, so I’m wondering if this is a possibility.
Am I right to assume that I can just place this circuit in series with the rest of the microphone?
So after doing some thinking and some reading, I’ve found I should be able to just slap the circuit in the mic. I know it’s sort of silly to do so, but I like the idea of a bitcrushing franken-mic.
Wish me luck! I’ll post updates once I get the parts in 
Can you draw a schematic for this, so that it will be easier to understand for many people what the circuit does?
I’ll draw something out soon, I haven’t had much time in the last few days
Interesting- the link has a strip board layout with a pair of 072s, a FET of some kind and a bunch of passives. It wouldn’t be a bit crusher in the sense of converting to digital and downsampling, so it will be cool to hear the results!
Yeah, it’s not actually bitcrushing per se, but I think it’ll get the job done for making vocals sound tech-grungy.
By the by, my schematic design knowledge is entry-level, so it may take me some time to get it down. Any recommendations for software?
I think @Caustic did a “how to” on using EasyEDA here somewhere. It’s all on line and pretty easy to get the gist of.
I couldn’t find it, but I did find this thread: Schematics (understanding and drawing them)
I’ll probably skim over it and see what I can find
I used EasyEDA for a little while, it’s good, but I switched over to KiCad. It requires installation and is more complex but it has good features and a great library of parts, and it suits me better.
Pretty good tutorial series here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy2022BX6EspFAKBCgRuEuzapuz_4aJCn
Eagle, on the other hand, don’t get me started. It’s been incorporated into a molasses slow piece of bloatware called Fusion 360. Even if it was good, there’s no Linux version, but I did install it on my old Mac to convert some Eagle files to a KiCad-importable format. Even just doing that was painful.
I think I’ll learn w/ EasyEDA for the time being. I like that it’s browser based and I don’t want to get overwhelmed with too many features.