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Old 2008-12-05, 21:06
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Valhalla
Default Building your own pedals

I'm looking to make my own Delay/Sampling/Echo pedals.

Any good reliable schematics out there? My friend had a great site but alas I forgot it, so anything that looks good to you, please recommend, and bonus if you've used it with success before.
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Old 2008-12-06, 00:47
Dong_Quixote Dong_Quixote is offline
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Default Re: Building your own pedals

These are some sites I have in my bookmarks I have never tried them so I don't know how reliable they are.

http://www.diystompboxes.com/wpress/
http://www.diystompboxes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.tonepad.com/ <- This one has schematics
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Old 2008-12-06, 04:40
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Default Re: Building your own pedals

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Originally Posted by Dong_Quixote
These are some sites I have in my bookmarks I have never tried them so I don't know how reliable they are.

http://www.diystompboxes.com/wpress/
http://www.diystompboxes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://www.tonepad.com/ <- This one has schematics


Thank you, and your name made me laugh hard.
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Old 2008-12-06, 06:07
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Default Re: Building your own pedals

You will go through alot of trial and error for a pedal that just won't sound as well as the store brand ones. Believe me I build my own and I didn't actually use my own pedals until about 2 years after starting. When I look back I should of just sucked it up and bought.
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Old 2008-12-06, 07:55
ThePinkFloydSound ThePinkFloydSound is offline
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Default Re: Building your own pedals

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Originally Posted by pirata
You will go through alot of trial and error for a pedal that just won't sound as well as the store brand ones. Believe me I build my own and I didn't actually use my own pedals until about 2 years after starting. When I look back I should of just sucked it up and bought.


you probably had shitty plans and sucked at soldering. The bottom line is if you have good plans, parts and ability a home made pedal can be better then bought.
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Old 2008-12-06, 15:26
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Default Re: Building your own pedals

you probably had shitty plans and sucked at soldering. The bottom line is if you have good plans, parts and ability a home made pedal can be better then bought.

Worst case I'm thinking it'll be better because I'll be able to put in only what I want. Maybe I won't need to edit volume, so I'll leave it out and save myself that hassle, etc.

I wanted to make sampling/delay/echoe, but my uncle said it wasn't viable as a recorder (ie, I sample a long ass melody, play it, then play harmony over), so I'll just use a laptop for recording on the go, and for pedals I'll stick to distortion, overdrive, etc.

I've got a pretty sweet amp but it's a bitch to change settings mid-song and the 10 pickup combinations on my Strat don't really have the huge range I need. Maybe I just haven't found it yet, but on the Les Paul it's easy to go straight from a clean sound to nearly fully distortion just by flicking the switch from up to down.
 
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