brian
Moderator   Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline
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 posted on 2/11/2005 at 14:59 |
Anyone building there own guitar pedals?? I just finished a cool fuzz pedal
last night using a basic perf board. It's tricky but if you take your time
you can save yourself tons of money. I've modfied every pedal I own... I
guess you can call me a gear head. Tone Tone Tone
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Gerix
Second Lieutenant   Posts: 51 Registered: 11/28/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 2/15/2005 at 16:42, Reply 1 |
If I wanted to make a pedal, where would I start? Should I buy one and
tinker with it? Sounds expensive that way.
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brian
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posted on 2/16/2005 at 10:30, Reply 2 |
For starters I would get the book Electronic projects for musicians by
Craig Anderton. Search Google or Amazon. There's lots of projects for you
to work on in the book. You can go to Radio Shack and get most of the parts
or Small Bear Electronics, Mouser.com,Digikey.com has the hard to find
stuff. What kind of pedal would you be interested in building???
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Gerix
Second Lieutenant Posts: 51 Registered: 11/28/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 2/16/2005 at 16:53, Reply 3 |
LOL, I don't know. I'm new to pedals too. I heard a sound that I think was
a guitar, but I don't know. It sounded like a frog croaking. It reminded
me of a wah........In other words, I'm completely clueless. 
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masterdan
First Lieutenant   Posts: 12 Registered: 5/30/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 3/13/2005 at 21:34, Reply 4 |
How much does it cost to make a pedal usually?
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 3/14/2005 at 10:25, Reply 5 |
It depends on what your building. What gets you is the case,knobs,switches
etc.. The resistors,caps,perfboard etc are pretty cheap. I've built a few
pedals using floppy disk cases and some old radio knobs :giggly: They
looked like crap but sounded better then just about all my pedals. I like
building fuzz and distortion pedals. Sometimes though it's cheaper just to
buy a Boss,Danelectro pedal then modify to your liking. I would say to
build a basic distortion pedal it would run you anywhere from $25 to $75
depending on what your building.
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 3/21/2005 at 09:43, Reply 6 |
pedals anyone...
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birdman506
First Lieutenant  Posts: 10 Registered: 8/3/2005 Status: Offline |
 posted on 8/3/2005 at 08:06, Reply 7 |
brian...how did you do it (what materials...i was wanting to make one 
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Telefreak
Moderator  Posts: 468 Registered: 1/12/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/3/2005 at 19:39, Reply 8 |
Brian!
Wanna build me a cheap Rat copy but with extra balls to it? ____________________
Technology, not technique
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brian
Moderator Posts: 1075 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/3/2005 at 20:42, Reply 9 |
It's not that hard but first have you built any pedal before??
How's your soldering skills? Do you plan on using a perf board or make your
own board?
[Edited on 8/4/2005 by brian]
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