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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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 Posted - 07/10/2006 : 20:14:11
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has anyone built their own pedals from a kit...? in guitar and bass magazine they are offering a compresser and/or fuzz pedal kit they work out at about �44 each with free postage if you buy both...the fuzz pedal has a orginal germanium transistor in it and the reviewer reckons the compresser had to be dragged out of his hands..!!!i had thought to try them for fun,i have managed in the past to do some minor repairs on my amps and rewire a couple of my guitars with new pickups(one to clapton specs) so i have a little experience with a soldering iron.....and its never a bad idea to have spares around ...to many gigs with beer being spilt over my gear and drunken punters falling on top of me.....the joys of the weekend gigging musician......!!!  ...... |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 20:18:59
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| oops.. sorry if i have posted in the wrong place probaly should have been in the non boss discussion room.... |
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stahlhart
Platinum Member
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Posted - 07/10/2006 : 21:02:37
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I've built a few electronic kits, but not any guitar pedals. My first one -- well, it's going to be more of a homebrew than a kit -- is going to be a Mutron octave divider clone. I've acquired the service manual / schematic, and some web digging produced hand drawings of the traces on its circuit boards, which is sufficent to serve as plans for building one. The circuit also doesn't have any unusual or hard-to-get parts -- I don't see the project costing much more than about US$75.00 or so, which looks really worthwhile if the holders of the real ones are going to try and get at least US$600.00 for them as a starting bid on eBay.
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
472 Posts |
Posted - 07/10/2006 : 22:06:40
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 07/11/2006 : 19:43:18
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| I think its a kit specially designed for the mag its designed by a guy called dave petersen with help from dan coggins of dinosaural ..i have heard of dinosaural before i think they are a 'boutique' pedal maker.. the fuzz pedal is called 'fuzzmania' and the compressor is called 'paranormal' there is a link to it if you want to find out more www.guitarmagazine.co.uk and click on the link for paranormal... like i said i was thinking about it for fun, a 'project' but i am starting house renovations shortly so i reckon even if i got the kits it would be autumn or winter before i started them... my 4 year old daughter is fascinated with my gear and knows all my boss pedals and what they do so i'm sure she would want to help..!!! beats watching tv..... |
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diggum12
Silver Member
USA
282 Posts |
Posted - 07/20/2006 : 23:49:15
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I personally will be building the SG-1 clone from buildyourownclone. For $70 and it being True Bypass, it's the closest I'll get to owning a real Slow Gear! They call it the Lazy Sprocket. The paint jobs are so freaking cool on that website!
http:\\www.buildyourownclone.com
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
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Posted - 07/21/2006 : 14:43:33
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I'd be building that SG-1 Clone as well if I didnt already have one. He's got a rather reasonable price for it.
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 07/21/2006 : 17:36:36
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| I just ordered a pre-built BYOC Tribooster as I don't have any soldering skills at this time. However, depending on how much I like the Tirbooster, I may learn how to solder in order to pick up some of his other kits. |
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JonJacobJingleRobertSmith
Copper Member
USA
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Posted - 08/10/2006 : 02:06:07
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| i just did the byoc vb-2 kit. it took 4.5-5 hours because there were so many parts & my first diy kit. easy process & i only burned myself twice. sounds pretty good. |
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boss freak
Gold Member
USA
663 Posts |
Posted - 08/10/2006 : 06:30:49
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| I have the VB-2 and Sg-1 clone kits waiting to be built. Just need to find the time. |
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 08/13/2006 : 19:20:06
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| thats whats putting me off buying them ...finding the time and the space to build them in peace...!! |
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jack
Platinum Member
USA
1418 Posts |
Posted - 08/19/2006 : 16:57:38
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I got my pre-built BYOC Tribooster from AxeAndYouShallReceive.com a few weeks back. I was very impressed with the workmanship from Scotts tech at AxeAnd.... who does all the pre-built builds. Very nice soldering and neatly put together. I was also very impressed with the quality of parts supplied by BYOC. So I am definitely going to start getting kits from BYOC and start to make my own pedals, starting with their Fuzz Face clone and the new, limited edition (at least for now) Big Muff Clone kit they have.
So for the next few months I plan on taking a break from acquiring any manufactured pedals, unless its just too good of a deal to pass up, and will concentrate on making my own effects. Hopefully I can get pretty decent at things and try to get some of that huge money people are willing to spend on "boutique" pedals.
Which just got me thinking, what qualifies as a boutique pedal? Does it just have to have some retro sound but handmade in the recent past? Or does it just apply to custom/handemade or not produced in the hundreds of thousands? Seriously, I was just wondering if there is a specific defnition or criteria for what qualifies or can be called a boutique pedal, because I always took it to mean,"really expensive-custom or limited run-retro sounding effects", and just now was wondering if that is truly what it means. |
Edited by - jack on 08/19/2006 16:59:10 |
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