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Multi-Effects Putting two effects in one box almost looks too easy, but you will save a lot of time reading the frequent questions before starting such a project...
I know there are several midi switching/controller projects, but all that I have found are far more complex than I need/want. What I am looking for is something that will function the same way as FOUR 4PDT latching switches.
It needs to have midi in and midi thru.
I prefer if somebody could help me specifically work out a project and not link me to a ton of projects that show a general idea of how that I probably wouldnt understand, thus getting me no further. I do have a PIC programmer if...
First, This is my first post here so hello everyone :)
my question is:
I noticed Pete Cornish is using stereo inputs and outputs on his pedals and he also grounds each input/output to the enclosure.
1. Any Idea why stereo and not the regular mono?
2. why grounding the input/output?
3. Also noticed he uses 2 resistors and a ceramic cap on the output. a. any idea why? b. any schematics on how he uses it?
4. Can anyone post an off-board drawing of his pedals?
I'm building a switch box for a friend to answer a weird request he had. Basically he needs two ins for guitars and two outs for amps, and needs to flip between which guitar goes to which amp. There are the obvious ground loop issues to deal with when making any dual amp splitter. I tried to get around it on this one by making a ground lift on one output to sever the loop. Here's my schem:
The two positions should produce the results of A->X,B->Y and A->Y,B->X. This works fine but i'm...
Hey, so... I'm rather noobish at pedal building and am trying to make a simple booster based off of the electro harmonix lpb-1. Thing is I want to have 2 inputs, going to 1 output....the goal is to have it switch from boosted to true bypass with a 3pdt each input.. I copy, pasted and scribbled over a schematic to help you guys see what I attempted.
The issue that I'm having is the signal doesn't get boosted well enough unless both channels are on. Before just starting over using a 4558,...
I'm new here. This is my first post but hopefully it'll be a pretty easy one to answer.
I'd only ever made 3 pedals until recently, all BYOC ones with fantastic, step-by-step PDF instructions. Pretty much painting by numbers for me.
I'm clueless when it comes to electronics so following schematics is a no-no, as is explaining how something works. I'll nod but nothing will register!!
So, recently I build a Soulbender clone & had all sorts of LED issues, not to mention problems with the...
I'm building an Anderton Super Tone Control on veroboard from the genious lVlark's blog
Do you know how I could implement an input so I could control the filter frequency with an EP2 pedal from Moog ?
Here what the Moogerfooger's manual tells about the pedal inputs.
'All pedal control input jacks are 1/4 tip-ring-sleeve phone jacks. The sleeves are grounded and the ring terminals are supplied with +5.7 volts which is current-limited to about 0.5 milliamperes. The tip terminals receive the...
Building myself a creamy dreamer clone and I'm still pretty new to this.
I want to NOT use a battery snap at all since the pedal will always be plugged in on my board.
Can I use a mono jack instead of a stereo for the input? Every True Bypass wiring diagram I find seems to have a stereo input jack and a battery snap.
Can anyone point me to one that does not?
Can this even be done.
I'm having so trouble figuring out how to wire up a Fuzz Face circuit I had gotten from Fuzz Central. The positive ground aspect is a bit confusing. How to hook the power jack along with a battery to the PNP transistor circuit with positive ground. I need a picture if anyone has one.
So, i'd like to build a truebypass pedal that has two foot switches on it.
One latching switch and one momentary swith. And then a toggle to choose between the latching or momentary.
This would be a pretty usefull box for me. Momentary could allow for fast on and off of various pedals, and the latching would allow for the standard fixed on and off.
LED is not totally needed, but certainly preferred.
A side option. This would be best, but I get the feeling its not really possible. To ditch...
Hi all, first post and it's a question sorry.
I want to build a two in one box (TS09 and Big Muff Pi) with switching for 1 or both, and here's the difference:
I want to strip the volume part out of both circuits and add a third switch that will bypass the effect and just have the volume circuit - so I can use it as a two stage boost pedal if I want.
Am I going to run into trouble? Has anyone done this? and the big question: How? lol
Is possible instead of LDR place a high value resistor?
Look at the schematic below,the Ldr is in series with the Crunch Master pot.
Why because i have not around this LDR.
:hmmm:
I've been studying this PCB
and have pretty much all the component values and placement but i get lost when i reach the second relay(the one towards the middle of the board with the pots).
The output seems to go nowhere when the realy is engaged to the clean gain pot.
Also there seems to be a couple of contacts for indicator LEDs and don't know about the resistors to ground next to the relays,is that part of the switching or to avoid pops ....?
Here's a schematic,I could not find the one i'm...
Just got my second byoc kit the leeds fuzz. I thought I have seen adapters made from vero board for the. 3pdt switch but can't seem to find it. Does anyone know of some ideas I hate wiring switches. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I'm very new to building pedals, and I don't know much about how the wiring should be for pedals.
I've started building a timmy clone following the vero layout bellow.
The only problem is I'm not sure where the the ground from the volume pot and circuit board are supposed to go and the output from the volume pot.
I have been using the bellow image for wiring ideas, but it doesn't include the extra ground on the volume pot and output from the vol pot.
Where I live it's kinda difficult to find shielded wire...
Could I just:
> take ordinary solid core gauge 24 copper wire in its plastic tubing.
> wrap it nicely with a long strip of tin foil.
> put it all in a heat shinkable tubing.
Sort of a thin home made satellite dish cable or similar
Does anyone have a schematic of something like this? I know how to wire up the 4 loop station, but curious of the master bypass and tuner wiring. Found this at:
So I was going through Gauss Markov's 'Wiring up a 1590B' article and I see, compared to the 3PDT stomp wiring in Beavis Audio, that he has included input grounding. I see from his discription what it does, Im just not sure why it's been added or what it's a good thing.
I have a few of these in my stash, but have never used them.
Here's the datasheet for it.
And here's the part of the schematic showing how it works.
So, to me it looks like you could use momentary switches to toggle between powering up 5vdc circuits, correct?
Since most of my projects run on 9vdc, can I use these for anything?
I didn't see anywhere that listed the max voltage it could take - but I'm assuming it can't do 9v.
I was hoping that I could use these to do something like using...
I am building my second stompbox after surprising myself with the success of my first, a nice little Dirty Little Secret clone.
I've done a shed-load of research on the almighty Tubescreamer and the mods that have come around through the years and am getting towards the end of my planning and starting the build at last.
The question: I'm using a rotary switch to select different combinations of clipping diodes. Is there a neat and easy way to mount the diodes on the switch itself...
How to measure 38/40/42AGW wire thickness? I can't do it with typical ruler, do I :blackeye
I'm going to dissemble few popular inductor clones to check what construction do they have - type/style of wiring, wire diameter, and obvious things before I do that (coil diameter, inductance and resistance).
I'm going to build a simple coil winder and start rolling my own crap
As a noob I'm still in muddy waters when it comes to FX switching. My question is how do i wire 2 separate effects such that EITHER is turned on at a time, and I think of using using a 3PDT. I've seen schemes using two 3pdt to switch 2 effects ON and another to switch either. I only plan to use 1 of the said effect at a time (sort of channel switching).
I wanted to build two independently switchable circuits into one enclosure. In other words a Stage A with a footswitch to turn it on/off... going into a Stage B with a footswitch to turn it on/off. My guess with the wiring would be to wire like this...
In > Stage A 'in' > Stage A 'out' > Stage B 'in > Stage B 'out' > Out
How would I do this with two 3pdt switches? (I don't want to use a dpdt). Would I wire the Input jack to Stage A with the output jack to Stage B, and wire the output...
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