The D.I.Y. FX Pedal Building Thread

[Dedman]

why not? I bought a few plugs and cut the leads that come with the kits up and made patch cables for pedals, I really had no use for 4 2m leads :P

[DrNomis_44]

No worries then, I'm just in the process of making some new leads and have literally just finished making one, here's a pic of it, I used some gold-plated Tip/Sleeve plugs, and some microphone cable I bought from Jaycar Electronics today:




The lead is 5 metres long and I think it is easily as good as a commercially manufactured lead, the cable cost me roughly $3.00/m and the connectors cost me roughly $4.00 each, I bought four of those gold-plated Tip/Sleeve plugs, so I estimate that a 5 metre lead would be roughly $25.00, but the thing is, I've made leads like these before and they have never gone faulty on me....touchwood, whereas some of the commercially manufactured leads I have bought have gone faulty within a few weeks of use.


I'm going to make another one of these leads shortly and I'll take some pics so I can document the process, will do the write up tomorrow, so stay tuned.

[Dedman]

yea, I bought a pack of 5 patch leads and 1 didn't work, the actual plug was dodgy.

[DrNomis_44]

yea, I bought a pack of 5 patch leads and 1 didn't work, the actual plug was dodgy.

A mate of mine bought a Planet Waves lead, which is supposed to be one of the best types of leads you can buy, it went faulty on him and he gave it to me and asked me to fix it for him.

[Dedman]

how about a A/B/Y box Doc? Would it be a simple build (with LEDs for channel selected) ?

[DrNomis_44]

how about a A/B/Y box Doc? Would it be a simple build (with LEDs for channel selected) ?

I reckon it's do-able, I might need some time to experiment with a circuit to get it to the point where it's simple and easy enough to build, I've done a simple A/B box pedal, and a more complicated FX-Looper pedal with Leds, so an A/B/Y box sounds like a good project for this thread, I'm willing to give it a go.

[DrNomis_44]

Update:


After doing a bit of thinking, I've managed to come up with a suitable layout for the pedals which are going onto my Pedalboard, here's a pic of the layout:




Starting at the top left of the layout, there's my new Boss CH-1 Super Chorus Pedal, next to it is my new Moen Pretty Dolly Delay pedal, next to those two is going to be my Univibe pedal (I'm using my Big Muff pedal to represent the Univibe because the Univibe is at my mate's place), the little silver rectangular box in the top right of the pic is the MXR DC Brick Power Supply.

Beneath those pedals is my Danelectro Cool Cat Tremolo, followed by my Rowlin 5-Band EQ, then my Radial Tonebone Hot British pedal, next to that is my Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, followed by my new Ibanez TS-808, then there's my Jim Dunlop Crybaby Wah, my new Boss CS-3 Compressor/Sustainer, and then finally my Korg Pitchblack+ Tuner.

[kimball492]

Here's a couple of places for A/B Y pedal or kits Dedman
http://www.loopipedals.com.au/routing/aby/aby-pedal/
http://www.mammothelectronics.com/To...fnd-abybox.htm
http://www.musikding.de/A/B/Y-Switch

[Dedman]

Cheers Kimball!

[Fretworn]

Wah before compressor usually. Wah's and fuzzes like to be first in chain. Try it both ways, but you will probably find that the wah responds better without compression (or Boss buffering) running into it.