homebrew pedals

mrfjones

mrfjones

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i was wondering if anyone here as building their own pedals and which kind of pedals? I would like to start building a couple of pedals (clean boost) but i do not know any good schematics. i know i can get the parts from mouser.com and a couple other places, but i need to know which parts to get first. any help would be appreciated guys.

thanks

Scott
 
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Hi Scott -

I've been thinking about making a Fuzz Face type pedal for ages and have done a lot of research in that area. It sounds like Small Bear Electronics is a really good resource, but I haven't done a project with his materials yet. GEO FX gets lots of good references.

Sorry this is second-hand info. Hopefully someone will stop by and either confirm it or straighten me/us out ;)

BTW there are lots more bookmarks relating to DIY pedals here, so just let me know if you want a core dump that you can sift through.

Chip
 
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Fresh_Start said:
Hi Scott -

I've been thinking about making a Fuzz Face type pedal for ages and have done a lot of research in that area. It sounds like Small Bear Electronics is a really good resource, but I haven't done a project with his materials yet. GEO FX gets lots of good references.

Sorry this is second-hand info. Hopefully someone will stop by and either confirm it or straighten me/us out ;)

BTW there are lots more bookmarks relating to DIY pedals here, so just let me know if you want a core dump that you can sift through.

Chip
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Small Bear Electronics is a good place. I've had good experiences with them repairing a few of my pedals (new switch here, new transistor there, etc.; no full projects), and have heard many success stories of full projects.
 
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I made a tremolo pedal, wasnt too bad. The hardest part was laying our the parts on a perf board and making them all connect right. I got it to work first try :) . It actually sounds very good too. Small bear and mouser are both great places to buy parts
 
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I'm looking into building a clean boost - the mosfet clean booster from the amz cite
looks like it'd be fun
I'm already building guitars - next pedals, then amps
then a small army
maybe i'm getting ahead of myself

honeslty, i know guitar wiring, but i'm clueless about this wiring to boards stuff
any ideas
 
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Blueline said:
I'm looking into building a clean boost - the mosfet clean booster from the amz cite
looks like it'd be fun
I'm already building guitars - next pedals, then amps
then a small army
maybe i'm getting ahead of myself

honeslty, i know guitar wiring, but i'm clueless about this wiring to boards stuff
any ideas
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Read a few books, maybe take a class, just do the research about the components and their functions. Once you learn it, it's not very hard to apply it.

But you might be getting a bit ahead of yourself with it. Before you even think about building any amps, start modding them. It'll really help.

Good luck with it. :)
 
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i was jsut kidding on the amp thing - i'm more a guitar guy than an amp guy
i'll leave that to the pros

i'll stick to the guitar building - but i might kick around a pedal - at leat i can't kill anyone like iwth building an amp
 
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Blueline said:
i was jsut kidding on the amp thing - i'm more a guitar guy than an amp guy
i'll leave that to the pros

i'll stick to the guitar building - but i might kick around a pedal - at leat i can't kill anyone like iwth building an amp
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my thoughts exactly, i can't kill anyone with a pedal, but all that other stuff can be handled by pros.

thanks for the links guys. i will have to look at all of these and see which ones look like the most fun.
 
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www.tonepad.com

these guys will make the PCB for you and everything ;)

i bought from them before, tried a big muff pi.. kinda half finished it, bit complex for a half-novice..
 
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I have a friend building a Hornby Skewes treble booster. The schematic's on the web somewhere. I'm also interested in building an Axis Fuzz.

Mouser is a great place to buy parts, and they don't have a minimum order size.
 
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so with tonepad, they ship you everything already in the board and you just solder, put into case, and play or do they just ship you the board with everything laid out - like a paint by number, you order all the resistors and parts and then plug em in, solder, and play
 
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I built an A/B box with a Y to allow me to drive two amps. Also has a built in switchable effects loop. It was very simple once I figured it all out on a hike one day. Totally passive...no buffering. Lew
 
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Blueline said:
so with tonepad, they ship you everything already in the board and you just solder, put into case, and play or do they just ship you the board with everything laid out - like a paint by number, you order all the resistors and parts and then plug em in, solder, and play
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you just get the board - some people like to mod stuff for the ground up
 
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Imp said:
you just get the board - some people like to mod stuff for the ground up
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thats pretty cool, i don't have to run wires everywhere, though that might be fun too.
 
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