Let’s see those pedals?

gimmesometruth27

ah shit forgot i had a trace amount of analogman mini chorus on there too.....

mcgruff10

Nice work!

dudeman

I put this together a while back for direct recording and for playing with headphones. The two pedals in the upper left corner cover amp and cab sims, DI for going ampless and a headphone amp. The silver Darkglass pedal lets me send tracks from my phone via Bluetooth for playing along with, too. I assembled this for playing bass but electric guitars sound great with these pedals too.

Theebs

I recently added the Funny Little Boxes Dirt pedal.  Parked right next to the 1991 pedal!

dudeman

Just finished building this one tonight. It is a Mu-Tron Octave Divider clone, built from a BYOC kit. I haven't really messed around with it other than to test it once it was done. Should be a pretty fun addition to my bass board.

lexicondevil

dudeman said:

Just finished building this one tonight. It is a Mu-Tron Octave Divider clone, built from a BYOC kit. I haven't really messed around with it other than to test it once it was done. Should be a pretty fun addition to my bass board.

Nice. I was thinking about building a pedal for fun. How long did it take you, and what is your depth of knowledge with electronics? Mine is zero. I've been buying a lot of pedals, lately.

dudeman

lexicondevil said:

dudeman said:

Just finished building this one tonight. It is a Mu-Tron Octave Divider clone, built from a BYOC kit. I haven't really messed around with it other than to test it once it was done. Should be a pretty fun addition to my bass board.

Nice. I was thinking about building a pedal for fun. How long did it take you, and what is your depth of knowledge with electronics? Mine is zero. I've been buying a lot of pedals, lately.

This one took several days. I worked on it for a couple hours each night so in total, probably ten hours. This one has a lot of components, really small parts and tight spaces so it took longer.

In comparison, a Fuzz Face circuit has somewhere around eleven parts so that could be built in less than 30 minutes.

I have built probably 40 pedals and I repaired electronic equipment professionally several years. Things like pedals are pretty easy, as long as you are patient and don't try to rush. Going back and redoing something or tracking down a mistake is harder than going slow and paying attention to the details so that doesn't happen. 

I had to take a break from this kind of work due to a neurological issue that affected my hands and dexterity. Slowly trying to get back into it.

SVRDhand13

Thanks Santa!

dudeman

SVRDhand13 said:

Thanks Santa!

Badass! I imagine you can get lost in the range of sounds in that box. I've heard nothing but great things about those. Congrats!

dudeman

SVRDhand13

dudeman said:

SVRDhand13 said:

Thanks Santa!

Badass! I imagine you can get lost in the range of sounds in that box. I've heard nothing but great things about those. Congrats!

Thanks I’ve played with it now about 3 hours and have not even begun to scratch the surface. Looking forward to making presets soon. 

mcgruff10

SVRDhand13 said:

Thanks Santa!

That’s awesome.  

StardogChamp79

Abe Froman said:

Question for those with larger pedal boards:
how are you powering large boards?  I’ve never had more than 8 pedals but I’m thinking about expanding my board. Do you use multiple power supplies?  Or use a 12 input supply?

Yeah I am running into this now with the Line 6 DL 4 and MM 4 both say 9V 1200 Ma plus I have some other small power pedals. Trying to find a supply that will work. 

gimmesometruth27

StardogChamp79 said:

Abe Froman said:

Question for those with larger pedal boards:
how are you powering large boards?  I’ve never had more than 8 pedals but I’m thinking about expanding my board. Do you use multiple power supplies?  Or use a 12 input supply?

Yeah I am running into this now with the Line 6 DL 4 and MM 4 both say 9V 1200 Ma plus I have some other small power pedals. Trying to find a supply that will work. 

i've seen guys use two power supplies. 

another hidden trick that i just learned a couple of years ago is that most tuner pedals have a 9 volt auxilary port that will allow you to power a 2nd pedal via the tuner. my one board has 8 9 volt inputs, so it will power 8 pedals, but if i use that tuner aux port i can power 9 pedals.

lexicondevil

Do any of you regularly use any of the Chase Bliss pedals? The Clean and Mood are interesting to me. They seem a little overly complicated, though. Also, I don't really know how much I will use them playing Indie Americana type of music. I will admit that I have other pedals that I wouldn't necessarily use for my sound, but they are damn fun to play around with.

DE4173

mcgruff10

Just ordered this pedal. I m pumped.  

dudeman

mcgruff10 said:

Just ordered this pedal. I m pumped.  

Very cool! That's a classic. I'm a total phaser junkie and I think I have 25 of them right now. The Phase 90 was the starting point and the basis of probably half of the boutique phasers I own. I have personally built six Phase 90 clones and I use them all the time.

Solid choice right there! Be sure to experiment with the order you have your pedals connected, too. Personally, phasers sound far better to me before and OD, Distortion or Fuzz pedals but you might prefer the opposite. Best to experiment and find out firsthand. 

DE4173

mcgruff10 said:

Just ordered this pedal. I m pumped.  

Congrats!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘

*That picture sounds like Edward Van Halen 😁

aintitthelife98

Here is my current pedal board. The JHS Bonsai, EHX Op Amp Big Muff Pi and Boss DM-2W are recent additions. Just trying to figure out now if I have my pedal order right.