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  • Anyone Here Modify Their Own Effects?

    Been doing this for about a year, if you are at all handy with a soldering iron, and can read a schematic, you can breathe new life into an old effect for very little money. Sofar, I've modded an MXR Distortion III, turned it into a very dynamic overdrive pedal, an EHX East River Drive (swapped an LED for a regular diode, sounds amazing!), a BOSS SD-1, MXR Distortion +, etc.... Anyone have any experience with modding their own pedals?

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    Re: Anyone Here Modify Their Own Effects?

    I used to build them - https://reverb.com/item/1257427-fat-...l-serial-no-49

    I have a pretty heavily modified SD-1 that I used to use some, along with some ods and fuzzes I have built but mostly just using multi fx for the little playing I do now.

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      Re: Anyone Here Modify Their Own Effects?

      No - but I have destroyed a few and made them unrepairable.
      Originally posted by Bad City
      He's got the crowd on his side and the blue jean lights in his eyes...

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        Re: Anyone Here Modify Their Own Effects?

        I replaced a few opamps in a Boss GE-7 to lower the noise floor. Originally, Even with it set flat you heard added noise when it was engaged. Not totally silent now but better than before. Don't ask what chips, I don't remember. I found a YouTube video about the mod and decided to try it.

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          Re: Anyone Here Modify Their Own Effects?

          I also had several mods on a Marshall GV-2+. Killed it and brought it back to life several times.

          Last mod, I made a mistake and just haven't had time to go fix it. Went from removing a wet blanket off the sound to really beefy and open sounding to thin and ****ty when I tried to tighten up the bass response. Accidentally used the wrong value capacitor.

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