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Post by morbe on Jan 31, 2012 11:17:32 GMT -5
So here is the deal i want to start building my own pedals. I know less than the basics when it comes to understanding electronics. But im your typical do it yourselfer and i learn quick. With my military apptiitude test i could do just about any job. It was very high. My learning curve is strange, when i was in college simple math problems confused me when complex math having to know various formulas that took work that took 3 pages to answer were easy for me. So i digress.
I want to start learning how to build my own pedals. But i need to know where to.start. i need some of your exprtise please. I figure i need a book on understanding schematics, which i sort of can. So could you sends some links my way. To some cool resources?
I could just get a diy kit and build one but, i want to know what im doing. I just dont want to follow instructions.
I want to learn how to read schematics and be able to convert it to an actuall device, i want to learn how to test and fix broken pedals. And i want to be able to get a hold of pedal tear it apart look at it and write a schematic based on that pedal and duplicate it. Is this knowledge possible?
Can you guys kindly lead me to a good stating point?
Thanks every
One last question i saw that there was an ibanez ts 808 for sale but the owner was boasting it was hand wires. Do hand wires pedals sound better?
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Post by reTrEaD on Jan 31, 2012 16:22:12 GMT -5
I want to start learning how to build my own pedals. But i need to know where to.start. i need some of your exprtise please. I figure i need a book on understanding schematics, which i sort of can. So could you sends some links my way. To some cool resources? I'm not trying to be a smartass, but Google would actually be the best place to start. There are tons of sites for DIY pedals and basic electronics tutorials. Finding one where they speak in terms you're more comfortable with is a fairly personal issue. I want to learn how to read schematics and be able to convert it to an actuall device, i want to learn how to test and fix broken pedals. And i want to be able to get a hold of pedal tear it apart look at it and write a schematic based on that pedal and duplicate it. Is this knowledge possible? Going from a schematic to building a pedal is a reasonably easy task. Repairing defective pedals is much harder. This requires an intermediate level of electronics knowledge and troubleshooting techniques. Reverse-engineering can be very difficult, depending on the complexity of the circuit and how much documentation (if any) you can find on the original circuit. If you're serious about going that far, at least a semester, maybe two, at a community college or adult-education center would be a good thing. Picking up bits and pieces electronics knowledge here and there on the net is possible. But a structured curriculum will speed up the process immensely. |
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Post by thetragichero on Jan 31, 2012 18:21:02 GMT -5
you could get a kit, or you could just order parts from small bear electronics or mouser (small bear is a bit more per part, but mouser charges a $5 fee if your order is less than $20). pedal parts plus is what i used for enclosures (i'd order their blemished painted enclosures) maybe start off with a fuzz face and read www.geofex.com/article_folders/fuzzface/fffram.htm ? One last question i saw that there was an ibanez ts 808 for sale but the owner was boasting it was hand wires. Do hand wires pedals sound better? only in the sense that your brain will tell your ears something sounds better when it knows you paid three times the price for it... |
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Post by JohnH on Jan 31, 2012 21:29:40 GMT -5
Id suggest picking one type of circuit as a target to understand and build - and depending what is most useful, it would be some form of booster or distortion.
Understand current, voltage, ohms law and what a resistor and a capacitor does
Pick one type of active device to get your head around. I like JFETs, but a more general vesatile element is an opamp. So understand how an opamp can work as a gain stage, inverting and non-inverting, and as a buffer, and how you can change its response wit hfeedback and diodes etc.
Get some components and a solderless propotyping board that you can try differnt circuits on - and make something work. Then build it on perfboard or strip board. Understand how most stomp boxes get wired up into a case with battery, LED, footswitch and jacks - and make your first pedal!
Once you have something working, you can branch out and add further circuits to your understanding, and different devices
5spice is a great simulation tool, to augment the real experiments
Cheers
John
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Post by flateric on Feb 17, 2012 17:41:06 GMT -5
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