DIY Foot Drum

[FrankenWashie]

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[Simon Barden]

I'm just wondering if the tops might be a little too thick to resonate well enough to get a good 'thump' sound. You can but see and you can always thin it down if necessary.

[jugglindan]

Whoa, that looks amazing!

And I think that the 1/4" top is more than enough. I agree with Simon it needs to allow vibrations through to the microphone on the other side. But since this is all new to me, I don't know for certain.

I should get the amp stuff wired up in the next few days to test the electrical side of things.

FrankenWashie, I see you are building your own. Do you want me to build a piezo preamp in a box to send up to you? Or do you have something suitable already?

[FrankenWashie]

I'm just wondering if the tops might be a little too thick to resonate well enough to get a good 'thump' sound. You can but see and you can always thin it down if necessary.

I think that in the wedge form version, it will definitely need thinning to perhaps 1/8”, with the bigger box version it might be okay at 1/4”.
Waiting on some piezo discs to test that.

[FrankenWashie]

Whoa, that looks amazing!

And I think that the 1/4" top is more than enough. I agree with Simon it needs to allow vibrations through to the microphone on the other side. But since this is all new to me, I don't know for certain.

I should get the amp stuff wired up in the next few days to test the electrical side of things.

FrankenWashie, I see you are building your own. Do you want me to build a piezo preamp in a box to send up to you? Or do you have something suitable already?

I’m going to see what I can cobble together to fill that function DC. I’m playing with similar bits in the franken Reso build so it’s all good experience.


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[FrankenWashie]

I think that in the wedge form version, it will definitely need thinning to perhaps 1/8”, with the bigger box version it might be okay at 1/4”.
Waiting on some piezo discs to test that.

Okay if anyone is curious as to why it takes the FrankenLab forever and a day to get anything done, here is a good example.


We’ve got 3 or 4 differing thickness QMaple blanks to use as the skin for these two stomps. We hard right turn and slice up some rock maple into 4mm boards and laminate two together just ‘cause we got curious as to how that would sound.

We also chewed up an hour and a half because we had this idea about slicing up some merbau strips and using them as inlays in the corner of the stomp boxes, cause y’know, why not!



ps: DC where do you want your jack mounted? Front of box or side or other?


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[jugglindan]

I am simultaneously laughing at your description of getting distracted, and gawping in admiration at your workshop as glimpsed in these photos.

Jack to the rear please, just where it looks like yours is drilled.

[FrankenWashie]

So some progress shots, here is the DC stomp in progress







The Lab stomp is now mostly complete, bar the piezo discs, which I have now been advised won’t get here until August. In the interim I’m going to have a crack at mounting an old pick up in it and seeing how that goes.




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[Bakersdozen]

Fine skills there Boss

[FrankenWashie]

Fine skills there Boss

thanks BD. It’s been a nice diversion