Effect Pedal building

[overtone]

yes thanks, I get kind of claustrophobic soldering in tight spaces these days.
Building a pedal in a rush and on a whim for a friend's birthday taught me that me that I needed glasses now!

Little things like this may make me try another pedal-build one day.
But an elephant size stompswitch would be cool.

[TNblueshawk]

The horrible part of pedal building is wiring that farkakte blue 3PDT switch that's everywhere. I saw this pict surfing pedals and traced it to this site. This board might be what's needed for me to motivate together those pedal kits I have sitting in a tupperware box. Most likely the pedal savants here are meh, but others might like to know.

http://1776effects.com/store/

edit: and thanks to whose-ever pedal image I copped.

I've used that footswtich pad (and many others for that matter) and have built a few of Josh's circuits. He is one of the most stand up dudes there are in the DIY pedal biz.

His home forum is at Madbean's http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php#c7

If you are interested shoot me a PM and I'll check to see what FS pads I have. I can't recall as my pedal building has taken a back seat to amps the past few months/year or so but I'll send a few your way if I have some. I may have some of these exact ones or at least an older version which is more or less the same thing. He may have added another grounding pad or something if I recall right.

[davent]

Can't forget Josh's Mutiplex Delay offering as well as his other projects. Check those above links!
dave

[TNblueshawk]

Can't forget Josh's Mutiplex Delay offering as well as his other projects. Check those above links!
dave

Love that Multiplex. Sold one built another.

[ampgeek]

Yes indeed!! Those 3PDT footswitch pads are a solderers' psyche lifesavers for sure!

If anyone is contemplating going that route, consider the buffered version shown here:

http://www.guitarpcb.com/apps/webstore/ ... ow/3436241

Only a couple of bucks more in parts...but...it definitely makes a positive sonic difference when one is put at the front end and back end of a pedal train. I packaged one up as a stand alone buffer in an enclosure that allows easy A/B'ing in any train.

I think that Pete Cornish would approve!!

Cheers,
Dave O.

[Emetal]

Hi, can somebody suggest simple to build but strong metal sounding distortion schematics

[dorrisant]

MI Audio Crunch Box is nice..

http://freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=221

https://app.box.com/s/0xii4uivpp2nxbx1pkzl

Tony

[playonit]

Guys

OK now I need a reverb pedal. Any recommended ones to check out?

Thanks.

I just finished the Grind Custom Tenebrion.. Awesome pedal with the #2 reverb brick in it.. the #3 brick was overkill..

[cruisemates]

I just wanted to give a shout out to this site: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/

There are a couple hundred pedals there, but no PCBs - everything is on VeroBoard. The entire layouts are there, and usually a sample video to show how something will sound first.

The drawback - no schematics. The benefits - very quick and easy builds you can do on the same day assuming you have the veroboard and enough parts on hand.

I also like Beavis a lot for breadboarding: http://www.beavisaudio.com/ - I just wish there were more projects. The benefit, of course, is to hear something before you order all the parts.

I would like to see people taking more pictures or drawing diagrams if you breadboard a project. It is really nice to hear something before you fully commit. Breadboarding is also great for tweaking circuits to your own taste.

[dorrisant]

Cruise, try these:

Schems and PCB Traces
www.tonepad.com/projects.asp?projecttype=fx

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/inde ... pic=5134.0

http://fuzzcentral.ssguitar.com/axiswah.php

Madbean's Discontinued Stock / Extra Projects PCBs Available from Haberdasher
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/inde ... pic=2038.0

Gutshot Gallery
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... p?t=730592

Most of those links should work.

Also, search for the pedal you are looking for on freestompboxes... Put "traced" in your search. I have a long list of links to lots of pedal stuff. If anyone is interested, PM me.

Tony

[M Fowler]

Anyone built the mklec.com Dumbloid Special kit?

Based off Shin's Music Dumbloid Special.

Would be nice to have a PCB instead of counting holes on stripboard.

Mark

[BarryW]

Mark - I built one off of IvIark's layouts. It's very doable - it's nothing more than a TS variant, and the sound is ok. Zendrive clones are fine -

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/201 ... ecial.html

Anyone built the mklec.com Dumbloid Special kit?

Based off Shin's Music Dumbloid Special.

Would be nice to have a PCB instead of counting holes on stripboard.

Mark

[dorrisant]

On the Dumble notion, I want to try the Umble.

http://www.runoffgroove.com/umble.html

Anyone else interested?

Tony

[cruisemates]

Thanks for the gut shots. It is good for troubleshooting, but schematics & breadboards are what I really like for modifying.

For the Umble pedal, my first suggestion above has this: Umble

Also try this search, they have many Dumble pedal ideas: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=du ... pot.com%2F

[cruisemates]

Wow... I am somewhat new to pedal building, and never built an amp, but that Umble is a really interesting build. 4 trim pots PLUS five potentiometers for tone, etc.

Here is a link to an image at FreeStompBoxes that someone made:
http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic ... le#p186574

This is from the ROG. The100k trimpots are there to adjust the FETs, which are J201s. I just happened to have received 10 of those from Mouser yesterday.

Just FYI - the "other" site has been reporting some noise problems, so the FSB is probably a better bet.

This guy goes into real detail about his build of this project, good information: http://aquataur.hilpold.net/aquataur/mu ... umble.html