The D.I.Y. FX Pedal Building Thread

[DrNomis_44]

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

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

[kimball492]

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.

[DrNomis_44]

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?

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

[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/

[DrNomis_44]

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/

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..

[kimball492]

Man those strings would kill my wrists lol

[DrNomis_44]

Just going to do the demo of my Univibe.

[wokkaboy]

Man those strings would kill my wrists lol

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

[DrNomis_44]

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.

[wokkaboy]

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