Let's see your PEDAL BOARD!

[aen]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyr8OhfmDxY[/youtube]

[Nychthemeron]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyr8OhfmDxY[/youtube]

That's awesome. The octave on the Robot Devil sounds awesome as well. What's this "Devi Never" though?

[aen]

A shoe gazer variant that Devi liked so much shes TOTALLY COPYING IT.

[comtrails70]

Not a board yet but getting there..
Adding a Sansamp Gt2 and a Fuzz clone(that is if i can i get it into the pedal housing)
Any suggestions on the signal chain?
And should the chain differ if going into a mixer for recording purposes?

APARTMENT 035.jpg (53.58 KiB) Viewed 2940 times

First build STILL in the works...

electro stevethemoneymaker 017small.JPG (65.94 KiB) Viewed 2938 times

[Scruffie]

I spy a piece of carbon comp mojo on that board...
What is the first build? Might be able to leand an hand...

Signal chain, Usually wah first then distortion next, modulation (Aka your whammy and delays and reverbs) at the end but swap them around and see what sounds best! (A good buffer at the end of a chain is always a nice addition to keep your high ends)

Shouldn't really be going straight into the mixer... but no.

[1,2,3, Pull Out!]

I plug my guitar into my whammy first, that way the dirt coats the octave so it doens't sound so week and thin.

[Scruffie]

I plug my guitar into my whammy first, that way the dirt coats the octave so it doens't sound so week and thin.

As I said with playing around but I thought the Whammy was rather pronounced? Never used one though, just heard samples, Anyway yea Octaves can be best at the front depending on what you want, i've got an micro pog but if I put 4 effects before it, it wouldn't be pleased... but after some nice chorus and verb... I have an church organ all dependant, especially with digital but delay, best at the end...
Gotta try though, put things where you feel best, it takes time to get the best tone (for what you want, don't go for what others want) but what I stated before with distortion first, modulation at the end etc is the sorta... standard, but a true tone junky will go through it all.

[comtrails70]

I recently took this build (fuzz) apart as it stopped working once it was in the pedal box.
I built it again and it always seems to work on the breadboard
but the minute it goes on a circuit its dead.Its probally something really simple I just overlooked.
As far as the signal chain thats kinda what I figured but what would be a buffer?

I spy a piece of carbon comp mojo on that board...
What is the first build? Might be able to leand an hand...

Signal chain, Usually wah first then distortion next, modulation (Aka your whammy and delays and reverbs) at the end but swap them around and see what sounds best! (A good buffer at the end of a chain is always a nice addition to keep your high ends)

Shouldn't really be going straight into the mixer... but no.

[Scruffie]

I recently took this build (fuzz) apart as it stopped working once it was in the pedal box.
I built it again and it always seems to work on the breadboard
but the minute it goes on a circuit its dead.Its probally something really simple I just overlooked.
As far as the signal chain thats kinda what I figured but what would be a buffer?

I spy a piece of carbon comp mojo on that board...
What is the first build? Might be able to leand an hand...

Signal chain, Usually wah first then distortion next, modulation (Aka your whammy and delays and reverbs) at the end but swap them around and see what sounds best! (A good buffer at the end of a chain is always a nice addition to keep your high ends)

Shouldn't really be going straight into the mixer... but no.

My answer... it's grounding on the case... cut any bare wire shorter, cover the base of the enclosure in an protective substance (electical tape, laminate even cellotape will do)

Also if you make sure everyyy where it's not accidentaly gounding, an quick resolder of everything you soldered, to check it's a good connection also making sure there is no (accidental bridges or solder connections racross things that shouldn't be connected)

And as for buffers they can help keep your tone... some pedals have better buffers, BOSS pedals have crap buffers (in my opinion not others) which means they use an switch buttttt it's not true bypass (true bypass is the removal of the circuit when the pedal is off) so they can use an LED (without an expesnive 3PDT switch, where you can have True Bypass and the LED) Visual sound have an good buffer (worked on by the R.G Keen of Geofex.. an Guru of effects) True bypass has no buffer, find an good buffer circuit, board it, stick it in a pedal and it will remove the loss of signal that is removed due to the capacitance of a cable.
True Bypass means it doesn't run through the pedal when innactive
Buffer means it does... but it's not always bad because true bypass pedals although they don't alter the guitar tone when off... they loose the tone because the guitar cable capacitance (10M of guitar cable means you looose tone) takes it away, a buffer in your pedal chain increases impedance and basically makes your tone better (assuming it's a good buffer, some pedals have a good buffer, others do not

[comtrails70]

I think i might have been a bit careless about grounding.I figure I'll start from scratch and take my time and check it every couple of steps.
thansk for the info Scruffie! Im going to have to read it a couple of times to fully grasp it.
The sad thing is that I've used pedals for years and never really started to think about how they work or work together till now.The whole buffer thing is new to me.

I recently took this build (fuzz) apart as it stopped working once it was in the pedal box.
I built it again and it always seems to work on the breadboard
but the minute it goes on a circuit its dead.Its probally something really simple I just overlooked.
As far as the signal chain thats kinda what I figured but what would be a buffer?

I spy a piece of carbon comp mojo on that board...
What is the first build? Might be able to leand an hand...

Signal chain, Usually wah first then distortion next, modulation (Aka your whammy and delays and reverbs) at the end but swap them around and see what sounds best! (A good buffer at the end of a chain is always a nice addition to keep your high ends)

Shouldn't really be going straight into the mixer... but no.

My answer... it's grounding on the case... cut any bare wire shorter, cover the base of the enclosure in an protective substance (electical tape, laminate even cellotape will do)

Also if you make sure everyyy where it's not accidentaly gounding, an quick resolder of everything you soldered, to check it's a good connection also making sure there is no (accidental bridges or solder connections racross things that shouldn't be connected)

And as for buffers they can help keep your tone... some pedals have better buffers, BOSS pedals have crap buffers (in my opinion not others) which means they use an switch buttttt it's not true bypass (true bypass is the removal of the circuit when the pedal is off) so they can use an LED (without an expesnive 3PDT switch, where you can have True Bypass and the LED) Visual sound have an good buffer (worked on by the R.G Keen of Geofex.. an Guru of effects) True bypass has no buffer, find an good buffer circuit, board it, stick it in a pedal and it will remove the loss of signal that is removed due to the capacitance of a cable.
True Bypass means it doesn't run through the pedal when innactive
Buffer means it does... but it's not always bad because true bypass pedals although they don't alter the guitar tone when off... they loose the tone because the guitar cable capacitance (10M of guitar cable means you looose tone) takes it away, a buffer in your pedal chain increases impedance and basically makes your tone better (assuming it's a good buffer, some pedals have a good buffer, others do not

[Blurillaz]

I've found that sometimes, Boss pedal's buffers differ from pedal to pedal, some sound good, some sound horrible...

[Pirate]

Aen,how much did your Superfeedbacker cost you?I was thinking about buying one or the Behringer copy to do some fun noisy Boris-y drone stuff.

[Blurillaz]

Aen,how much did your Superfeedbacker cost you?I was thinking about buying one or the Behringer copy to do some fun noisy Boris-y drone stuff.

I think they run around $125-$150 USD.

[Blurillaz]

Hey MBT, you have an updated picture of your board?

[my bloody television]

sure thing! sorry for the fuzzyness of the photos...it's dark and late here.