Any DIY pedal builders on TB? Strut your stuff!

Here's a JFET preamp that I've been working on for a while:

 

Pedals have never really been my thing particularly, but I'm actually taking a whack at a simple DSP based one right now. It's based on an old Alesis/Wavefront chipset that's totally stoned age compared to what you're doing.

Quite a few people have put my open source onboard preamp into stomp boxes though. While I was working out the design I did a few myself, like so:



There are also quite a few TB threads on my DIY rack preamps and bass amps.

 

Nice, looking forward to seeing and hearing more. I'm a very longtime audio gear repair tech and have retired from that and kind of ported to DIY building and casual OEM design work over the last decade or so. Mostly onboard preamps for one luthier friend, nothing too sexy as far as the "commercial" stuff, but enough to get some of my builds in a busy NAMM booth at least. I've seen some of Keith's work and have also contemplated buying a SHARC development kit from Analog Devices. I had a DIY MiniDSP crossover appliance for a while but it was a very early one and not quite up to snuff for my purposes at that time.

I hear you on the pandemic stir craziness. During house arrest I've designed at least a dozen new onboard preamps, knocked out the first version of the Wavefront based pedal, and am well into a 100 watt tube amp build. I was slowing down on sports and gigging anyway, but I'd definitely prefer to have those choices come on my own terms.

 

I’ve built a few things in my day ....



If you ever get to the old diystompboxes.com forum, you can look up some stuff under my forum name “Dragonfly”.

 

It was, as it has relay bypass. Initially, I was going with a micro controlled bypass, but opted for a flip-flop based system to reduce costs/complexity. I also had some ideas of possibly playing a pattern with the LEDs in the logo, but haven't done that yet.

 

here's my YouTube channel. also includes some amp builds and modded pedals. i mostly aim towards heavy music

YouTube

i mainly use punches and acrylic paint to label

 

yeah tubes in pedals is gimmicky to me.
either they're super low voltage or you've got high voltage on the floor where some idiot can spill beer on it

 

I built about 20 pedals of various types between 1999 and 2003 (ages 18 to 22) Mostly modded Fuzz Face clones, 20dB clean boosts, there were a few one-offs (TS808 with a blend and switchable gain channels, octave fuzz, FET OD)

It was fun, but then the boutique pedal business really took off and I didnt have the resources to compete. Heres a few on my Fuzz's and boosts, and a digital theremin that sounds like a buzzsaw.


My 22 year old self was proud of the workmanship. My current self is not.


I still have boxes of parts, Hammond 1590 boxes in various stages of completion, and thousands of resistors, transistors, and JRC4558 op amps.

I do want to build a dual channel blend for my pedalboard. At least I have parts on hand.

 

I've tried BIY lately. It's been a fun journey. Buy it Yourself.
But a couple weeks ago I did TYW. I Told my Wife what I wanted for my birthday and a new Julia chorus pedal showed up. I'm happy with the results.

 

I want to ask you a question, why can't I pm you?

 

No idea, but I get that all the time...
I'll PM you

 

Holy shag those amps sound massive.

 

You mean like this?

Ibanez Nu Tubescreamer Overdrive Pedal with Nutube

I seem to recall at the time this came out they had a few other "nutube" branded pedals but not seeing any after a quick google search.