My First DIY Pedals

[Keebo]

I finally finished my BYOC pedals. I got the compressor as a full kit and the other three I bought the circuit boards and sourced the parts myself. It was a fun experience and although none of them worked right away, I was able to correct my mistakes after some simple troubleshooting. I have only just finished today so I have not spent much time with them but I think I am going to be very pleased with the tones that can be had. These pedals going into my Blackheart tube stack sounds, plays and sustains so much better than my digital setups that there really is no comparison except in the number of amps, cabs, effects and the convenience of easy patch switching. Next up will be a power supply and perhaps a DIY pedal board. My brother took the photos and I am not exactly pleased with the outcome but beggars can't be choosy.



The Compressinator:

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The Choralizor:

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The GT Driver:

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The Shred Hazard:

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[D2o]

Hi keebo,

Very nice (to look at, anyway - I'm not going to pretend I have any clue what all these resistors and opamps and whatever else you have in there will actually sound like).

Actually, it would be way cool if you could post sound clips ... or at least action pics of your artistic interpretation of what they sound like

Since you've only posted 13 times, it was easy enough to go back and see what sort of tinkering you've done in the past - A LOT!, apparently.

Seems like you're a real guitarnut! +1

DD

[andy]

They certainly are good looking pedals, especially the GT Driver- I'm looking forward to the day that that sort of artwork on guitars comes back into fashion!

And ditto the soundclips, or at least opinions once you've had a chance to play them for a bit longer!

Good work...

[Keebo]

Thanks for the nice words, I appreciate that.

I still haven't had time to play with them yet since I just got home from a 24 hour shift at work after completing them the night before.

These are my first analog pedals other than a Bad Monkey in which I have never really cared for so I my experience with non digital pedals are nearly null.

Initially, I realize I have a lot to learn on using a compressor since I have never used one before outside the modeled ones on my POD XT. There seems to be a lot of settings that can be had with the five knobs. It worked like any compressor should with my initial settings but twisting the knobs I found there is much more available tone changing characteristics than what I am accustomed to.

The chorus initially sounded more like a tremolo than chorus but I remember reading about mods that can make it more chorus sounding. I'll look into that as time permits.

The overdrive was a pleasant surprise. It has a nice bluesy tone at low gain all the way up to a crunchy rock sound at higher gain settings. I can tell I am really going to dig this pedal.

The Shredder is also nice sounding pedal with a decent range of distortion settings. Feedback was easily obtainable and combined with the overdrive and compressor, what I think of as heavy metal was just a power chord away.

Anyway, thanks for looking and commenting.

[humanbn]

Where did you get the boxes?

[Keebo]

www.pedalpartsplus.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=PPP&Category_Code=ENC