DIY Pedals
Posted by: dmcevoy <dmcevoy@...>
Anyone out there ever built your own pedals? Which ones? How did you do?
Would you do it again?
I'm thinking of doing some pedal building. I'm really unhappy with the
setup I have, even though I've spent 3 years trying to refine it. I have
what I thought I wanted, and I'm still not happy. Figures, right?
I want to build my own distortion box. For some reason, my Classic 30 just
drops off when I kick in the distortion channel unless I use some kind of EQ
before the amp to cut the highs. No problem, except that I have a flanger
in the effects loop and everything else goes into the amp input. I don't
care for the sound of flanged distortion. That means I have to stomp three
switches in a real short period of time to get my distortion. A few bars
later, I have to go through the process in reverse to get my pretty sound
back. Yeah, yeah, I know... shut up, right?
I found a distortion box with 3 bands of tone control that looks like it
would be pretty easy. This should take care of the EQ and volume problem.
Just wondered if anyone out there had ever tried this.
P.S. I know I could just buy a stomp box, but I'm not really happy with the
way most of them sound. Anyone tried a Big Muff in church? How did that go
over?