Custom Diy Pedals, Gab "signature" Overdrive & Audio Experiments Options

[yoncopin]

I've mentioned this in a couple other threads, but I've started building custom guitar pedals and experimenting with other audio circuitry to make my own gear. As a thank you for all the help he's given me with my playing, I offered to build Gabriel a custom dual overdrive pedal and we have been having fun with the early design discussions over in my army thread. He encouraged me to start this thread to document our project, and for any other projects I have going for anyone who's interested.

After a quick exchange with Kris, he's given me permission to offer my services to other GMCers who are interested in their own custom gear. I very much want to keep learning, up to this point I have been just cloning pedals for my own use, but I want to expand to modding and designing my own. So, if there's an existing pedal you're interested in, maybe we can tweak a one of a kind version for you, or if you have idea for an effect, amp, analog, digital, whatever... throw it up here to discuss the possibilities

TLDR; I'm offering to build stuff for GMCers for the cost of materials. I think it'll be a fun collaboration, it will help me get more experience, and you unique gear.


I'm going to continually edit THIS post to add links to suppliers, designs, etc... as a resource for the future, so it doesn't all get spread out within the discussion thread.

Parts Suppliers:
Mammoth Electronics
Smallbear Electronics
Pedal Parts Plus
Tayda Electronics
Mouser
Digikey

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)
Mad Bean Pedals
JMK PCBs
Grind Customs FX
General Guitar Gadgets
GuitarPCB
TH Custom Effects

Stripboard Layouts
Tagboard Effects
Perf and PCB Effects Layouts
Sabrotone

Information
Runoffgroove
Tonepad

Forums
DIYStompboxes
Freestompboxes
MadBean Forums

Youtube
That Pedal Show
DIY Guitar Pedals


I recently watched a pretty cool documentary on pedal builders too, Fuzz: The Sound That Revolutionized The World. You can watch it (at least in the USA) for free for Amazon Prime members here.




Here's a quick recap of the projects I've done so far:

Madbean Slow Loris (ProCo Rat clone)
Sounds awesome, especially when boosted, used 16 gauge wire for the internals (smaller # is thicker wire) because it was what I had. No internals photos because I could barely get the box closed it was so cramped Enamel paint with a hand brushed polyeurethane clear coat wasn't the best finish, uneven from the brushing and kind rubbery and milky/cloudy. Probably durable, but wouldn't recommend.


Sound clip

General Guitar Gadgets ITS-8 (Ibanez Tubescreamer)
Another classic, a Tubescreamer clone. This was a complete kit and I found it a bit too easy, just painting by numbers. I did greatly improve my finishing techniques though. Interior wiring was MUCH cleaner, and I went my lacquer paint for the color and an enamel clear. The waterslide decal went on ok on this one, I learned later it was faster and much easier if you wet the surface before applying. The paint looks great but I wonder about durability.



JMKPCB Testing Rig
This one went almost perfectly. Interior wiring was ideal, some small issues with trying to put a lot in a small box, but not too bad. Decal went on perfect. I started this one with a pre-powdercoated enclosure but when applying the clearcoat used the same "hood" I used for the Tubescreamer, so some green dust got in the clear in some places. Lesson learned. This is an awesome device, it is a test and debugging tool for populated effects boards. It has a simple signal generator and headphone amp too, super cool and really useful.





In progress...
GrindCustomsFX SuperFET
GrindCustomsFX Ultrastoner MKII

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This post has been edited by yoncopin: Apr 8 2016, 08:03 PM