show us your home made pedals
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Re: show us your home made pedals
This is a bypass looper I designed and built for a friend.
It uses relays for switching the loops.
There are 2 modes:
In mode one it works like a standard bypass looper: All 3 loops can be toggled on and off.
In mode two only one loop can be turned on at a time ie: If loop B is on and you turn on loop A, loop B turns off.
The original circuit I designed used digital chips (schmitt triggers and J K flip flops) but I had some switching problems.
In the end I stripped most of the components off the board (hence all the spare holes) and used a microcontroller to do the magic.
It uses relays for switching the loops.
There are 2 modes:
In mode one it works like a standard bypass looper: All 3 loops can be toggled on and off.
In mode two only one loop can be turned on at a time ie: If loop B is on and you turn on loop A, loop B turns off.
The original circuit I designed used digital chips (schmitt triggers and J K flip flops) but I had some switching problems.
In the end I stripped most of the components off the board (hence all the spare holes) and used a microcontroller to do the magic.
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Re: show us your home made pedals
dood that's some high tech niceness right there...
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Re: show us your home made pedals
Pete, that's ace.
I've been thinking for ages that some sort of digital controller and a set of relays would be great for a looper/controller setup. Well done
I've been thinking for ages that some sort of digital controller and a set of relays would be great for a looper/controller setup. Well done
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Re: show us your home made pedals
The way it was described I thought that sounded a bit like the effect Schenker used to get with two Wah pedals, bought a smile to my face when I listened to the clips and he's using a classic UFO riff as the demo.ralley wrote:Druz - you can read up on the Wah-Antiwah and listen to sounds samples via the DIY Stompboxes wiki
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I wonder what it would sound like at stage volume
(I also wonder if you can achieve the same effect on an HD500)
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I take it back, it would appear Schenker used a "Cocked Wah" (IB:JB) ie. a half pressed Wah pedal. Looking at the footage of the MSG 30th Aniversay BLuRay it would appear he now uses a handful of simple Boss Pedals these days (not sure which at the moment)
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Re: show us your home made pedals
Nice job!! Is there any or much noise when it switches??
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I'm chuffed someone recognised the riff through my shitty playing!sty wrote: The way it was described I thought that sounded a bit like the effect Schenker used to get with two Wah pedals, bought a smile to my face when I listened to the clips and he's using a classic UFO riff as the demo.
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Re: show us your home made pedals
I was concerned about induced noise when I was building it, but it's pretty much silent.jeremyb wrote:Nice job!! Is there any or much noise when it switches??
It doesn't make any clicking sounds either.
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Re: show us your home made pedals
Decided to build a Rangemaster to complement my 18watter.
No led required
Le guts
That's right, terminal strip build can has all of t3h mojoz!
Military spec Germanium transistor
'Twas good fun, and sounds incredible!
No led required
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Military spec Germanium transistor
'Twas good fun, and sounds incredible!
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Re: show us your home made pedals
My what a big knob you have...tonymcbony wrote:Decided to build a Rangemaster to complement my 18watter.
No led required
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Re: show us your home made pedals
way to go tmb .... putting a DC jack in, or keeping the noise potential down?
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Awesome!!
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Thanks man!rocklander wrote:way to go tmb .... putting a DC jack in, or keeping the noise potential down?
I had a DC Jack in there (this case has prototyped a few things ) but yeah, bang on, I thought I'd try and keep the potential for hiss boosting down.
Have you made one of these before?
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nah, not yet.. got a ½ dozen maybe? germanium xistors so I will have a crack one day... just not "past participle of get" a round tuit.
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Looks good Tony. Should go very nicely with the 18w
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