Onboard 9-volt Guitar Effects

[Dankerella]

Anyone use them? Horror stories? Do you find you don't use it that much anyway?

Right now I have a silly Black Ice "capacitor" clone I got off Ebay (I think it's just like 2 diodes in series or parallel, not really a capacitor - I can't believe Stew Mac sells two 20-cent diodes for $15). I have it on a push/pull pot that doubles as my tone pot. Anyway, I'm considering swapping it out for a 9V effect instead (actually, Joe's Easy Drive: (www.diystompboxes.com/analogalchemy/pedals/easydrive.html). Anyone have any thoughts? I'm going to breadboard the effect this weekend to see how it sounds. I'm pretty sure I've figured it out how to wire it up inside the guitar, but I may need to attach the battery and/or the effect board on the inside of the bridge spring cover because the electronics cavity in my strat-style body is a little tiny.

 

[theodie]

Re: Onboard 9-volt Guitar Effects

I have used EMG's SPC and EXG and had good luck with them. They can be kind of a pain to wire for the novice though. BTW, alot of times I have routed out the control cavity to make room for everything. I have also routed out the body to install a battery box (which is the best way to do it on my opinion).

 

[Dankerella]

Re: Onboard 9-volt Guitar Effects

Well, after breadboarding the Easy Drive, I have come to some conclusions. I really can't imagine an instance where I wouldn't be able to bring a stomp effect with me somewhere if I needed one. The time and effort it would take for me to squeeze this thing into my guitar would just not be worth it, especially when the effect isn't half bad and I'd like to use it with other guitars in the future. The Easy Drive has a cool 1970s Al DiMeola fuzz/overdrive sound to me, and actually has a crapload of gain. It works great with my single coil positions. Unfortunately, my soundcard isn't working so hot, so no sound samples today...