The D.I.Y. FX Pedal Building Thread

[FrankenWashie]

Just finished recording a rough demo, I'm going to edit it and then I'll post a dropbox link to it once it's all ready, shouldn't take very long so stay tuned.


Okay as promised, here's a link to the demo of my EH Big Muff build, at the start of it, I've recorded it straight with no amp simulator plugins, just so you can hear what the pedal sounds like on it's own, I start off with the Sustain control at minimum and sweep the tone control from low to high so you can get an idea of the range of tone the pedal is capable of, next I set the tone to about the 12:00 position and then slowly crank up the gain so you can hear the amount of gain it's capable of, the second half of the demo is me playing the pedal through BIAS, an amp simulator plugin, I'm using the JCM900 Clean preset so you can hear what it sounds like through an amp, I used my LP Studio to record the demo, the first half was recorded with the bridge pickup, and the second half was also recorded with the bridge pickup, but I switched to the neck pickup towards the end for a bit of soloing so you can get an idea of what kind of lead tone you can get from an EH Big Muff:


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

Wicked Doc, that's a great Fuzz effect, some good tone range too. Nice Job!

[Dedman]

thats good fuzz Doc!

[DrNomis_44]

thats good fuzz Doc!

Cheers mate, hopefully your EH Big Muff build should sound the same since I'll be using the same parts to build your EH Big Muff circuit board, I'm going to start work on it this afternoon, once I know it's working I'll post it off to you with a wiring diagram so you'll be able to do all the wiring up, I'll also note down the Jaycar Electronics Cat. numbers so you'll be able to find everything you need to build your pedal.

[wokkaboy]

I never knew you added the link Doc, sounds nice and fat, what a great sounding pedal, well done

[DrNomis_44]

I never knew you added the link Doc, sounds nice and fat, what a great sounding pedal, well done

Cheers mate, I have a feeling that this particular pedal build is going to be the most popular with all the forum members, I think ShazzRandom might be interested in building one too.


@ Kimball Would you like me to make an EH Big Muff circuit board for you too?.


You can also use the Big Muff with a Bass guitar too.


Oh, and before anyone asks, yes it does Djent too, just add a noise gate and a Rangemaster Treble Booster pedal, oh and an Electric guitar that has more than six strings on it.

[DrNomis_44]

Thought I would post a link to this webpage on the Tonepad site for those of you interested in ordering a proper PCB for making an EH Big Muff, there are PCBs for other pedals which you can order too:

http://www.tonepad.com/tonepadshoppingcart.html


Thanks goes out to Kimball for emailing the link to the page, cheers mate.

[kimball492]

I'll have to get a pcb off them Doc
Let you know how it goes.
Best Wishes
Kimball
Doc you may find this useful a buddy sent me this software
For laying out pcb the best thing it's free
http://diy-fever.com/software/diylc/
Plus other links
http://gaussmarkov.net/wordpress/too...are/eagle-cad/

[Muzza]

Hey Doc, maybe you're the man that can help me.

I've recently gone back to playing bass (where I belong - I love it) and at band practice tonight, just for the hell of it, I plugged into my Diamond compressor (CPR-1) that I bought while I was in my rhythm guitar mode, and it blew me away.

Much better than the compressor I've sworn by for years. But this isn't a bass compressor. They're GOOD for bass, but Diamond put out a variation specifically for bass, the BCP-1 which is getting rave reviews. If this one sounds this good, then the bass version must be sensational.

My question is, would it be possible to mod the standard Diamond compressor and turn it into something more like the bass version? I don't really want to fork out for a new one, they're around the $350 mark.

Any ideas?

[DrNomis_44]

Hey Doc, maybe you're the man that can help me.

I've recently gone back to playing bass (where I belong - I love it) and at band practice tonight, just for the hell of it, I plugged into my Diamond compressor (CPR-1) that I bought while I was in my rhythm guitar mode, and it blew me away.

Much better than the compressor I've sworn by for years. But this isn't a bass compressor. They're GOOD for bass, but Diamond put out a variation specifically for bass, the BCP-1 which is getting rave reviews. If this one sounds this good, then the bass version must be sensational.

My question is, would it be possible to mod the standard Diamond compressor and turn it into something more like the bass version? I don't really want to fork out for a new one, they're around the $350 mark.

Any ideas?

I reckon it's possible that it is do-able, ie, to mod it to be usable for bass, they may have used the same circuit for both versions but changed some component values in the bass version, what I would do is see if I could find schematics for both versions on the internet, print them out and have a good study of them to see what the differences are.

[Dedman]

The good Doctor was kind enough to make me a Big Muff circuit board, all new ground to me, this wiring stuff,if I can get a straight run at it I'm feeling confident of not stuffing it up, but I keep getting interruptions.