The D.I.Y. FX Pedal Building Thread

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Originally Posted by kimball492

Need you to play some Hendrix riffs Doc so we can check out the Axis pedal.

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Will do, but first I'll be doing a demo of my Octavia and then my Univibe pedal.

Yeah SRV had real strong fingers Woks. One of his earliest major interviews, around 1983, Stevie Ray Vaughan let out a bit of personal information that has had an effect on gear and gearheads to this day. Talking about his now well-known ‘59 Strat—even then completely trashed—he told the interviewer what string gauges he was using: .013 to .052. The interviewer was surprised and asked him to repeat it. Yep, 13s. I remember reading that interview as a teenager and my jaw dropping.

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Originally Posted by wokkaboy

thats a very light gauge KB, maybe thats how he did triple bends so well.

On the other hand I think SRV used very heavy gauge strings?

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I seem to remember reading somewhere that Stevie used a 56 gauge string for his low-E.


Anyway, here's the Octavia demo, I start out with just the Strat set to the neck pickup, and then I activate the Octavia, you may notice that the guitar sounds an Octave higher in pitch:


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...via%20Demo.mp3

here's an article on SRV string gauges, don't know how true it is but it says he played up to a 0.058" E string

says he tuned to E flat would have made the string tension less and easier to bend strings

https://www.stringjoy.com/stevie-ray...string-gauges/

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Originally Posted by wokkaboy

here's an article on SRV string gauges, don't know how true it is but it says he played up to a 0.058" E string

says he tuned to E flat would have made the string tension less and easier to bend strings

https://www.stringjoy.com/stevie-ray...string-gauges/

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Geez, 58 gauge strings on a Strat?, yeah, you wouldn't be able to tune a Strat to standard E to E pitch without some serious neck bowing, you'd probably end up breaking the truss rod before you got most of the bow in the neck out..

Man those strings would kill my wrists lol

Just going to do the demo of my Univibe.

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Originally Posted by kimball492

Man those strings would kill my wrists lol

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yeah well think about bass players, they would laugh at a 58 gauge string and say that's only my G string gauge haha

Here's the Univibe demo, I'm switching between three different voicings in both the Chorus and Vibrato modes, my Univibe has a three-position voicing switch which can be switched to either the Reslytone, Voodoo Vibe, or Univibe voicing, each one has a different character:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ibe%20Demo.mp3



I'm using the neck position pickup on my Strat in this demo.

pretty cool sounding pedal Doc, so you didn't touch the tremelo that is all the pedal the vibrato sounds ?