Tycho Parapedal

[troubledtom]

  Well I'd like to know what you've got going there Tom!
  Parapedal's a cool effect, but I'm having troubles with over/under unity depending on what Fuzz or OD I use with it.
  And I'm not at all certain the way it sits is 'optimal'.
  I subbed out caps for smaller ones [I skipped the cap across the 1k, but the caps to the left and right are socketted, can't recall all the exact numbers but fairly big change in those values took some of the 'over-resonance' I was experiencing with the stock values.
  Anyway I took it out one time, but haven't messed with it since, kinda cool and I might like to record with it, but I wouldn't book it for gigs the way it's working right now..mainly the volume drop/boost [which is wierd and is evident when other pedals are engaged], the sweep is so resonant it's something I'd want a specific application adjusted for before turning it on...pre-pedal [like boost] post pedal, guitar and amp, I'd feel like I'd have to dial in everything around the Para..

what i need is "THE circuit we're "we" are working on ."  i need the complete schemo and/ or layout that 100% worx.
so i can show you the mods. i'm not gonna reverse the pedal [new version pedal]i got. i told kurt i wouldn't do that.
  ....... if i have the info ......... i will compare the circuits and show you where i did the mods.
          kurt runs a great bizz.
     but............    i have made the pedal more to my liking w/ his help. it's reallycool!

[R.G.]

Why don't we say that the one at GEO is the reference? It's the only one that's commonly available.

[petemoore]

Why don't we say that the one at GEO is the reference? It's the only one that's commonly available.

Minus a couple cap values, and with 'improved' grounding scheme [-Gnd.], that's what I have.

[R.G.]

You mean like the second one?

[sir_modulus]

Two things:

A) I swear, you people are all psychic! I never saw this thread, and the page I saw before I was on this one was tony iommi's gear setup, and I was just even thinking...hmm...parapedal...that'd be neat to have...wonder what it does? (I already have the rangemaster, so with the parapedal down, that leaves me with 16 4x12's and a ton of laney heads to go =P)

B) Petemoore, what does your signature refer to? (Just curious)

[petemoore]

  Been a while since I made that guitar, and read:
  'Volume in a Copper Can'..
  Kind of refers to distortions or boosters in a box, but was inspired by allowing room in the guitar cavity for a templated, then cut 'copper can' I built in...long and rounded at the ends, into my 'Franken-Tele' clone. All the controls and pickups are in copper 'cups' or 'cans' that are shielding connected to ground. I'm not certain how much difference it made in this guitar, which has very low/lowest noise floor of anything I've seen...I know it made lowering of noise floor in my previous LP Jr. Clone. It's been a while since I've tested an 'old wiring type' Les Paul, the wiring in my epiphone Les paul is 'cheesy', seems comparitively noisy, is super hard to work with, breaks too easy...as you can tell I'm not fond of wiring problems and noise in guitars, before wiring my own I had consistant [on about every guitar I ever owned] and/or intermittent noise issues.
  I decided to attempt everything I could to defeat noise, cutting no corners. It seems to have worked very well {I just knocked on wood}.
  Double shielding everything was a chore, I have wood covering the control panel sheet, but at least I know I tried, and HAVE happiness at last with guitars that are less noisy.
  I'ts one of those things...if you're gonna mess with it, making room in the cavity for it etc., you just have to go all out and do the whole nine yards, since I was already cloning [this makes it comaparitively easier than modding], I had to...the guitar is an absolute gas to play.

[A.S.P.]

information lost...

[sir_modulus]

Petemoore: That's awesome! You actually double shielded a control cavity?  I've been meaning to do that on the new guitar I'm building but didn't think any other sane person would think of doing it!

Cheers,

Nish

[alteredsounds]

Anyone doing this project or interested, I came across a very odd looking Parapedal in someones collection: http://homepage.mac.com/bill_jpn_morgan/Treasures/effect/other-e.html Either very heavily modded or completely rebuilt?  Some nice pics of other pedals here too!   

Cheers,
Nick,

[cd]

Anyone doing this project or interested, I came across a very odd looking Parapedal in someones collection: http://homepage.mac.com/bill_jpn_morgan/Treasures/effect/other-e.html Either very heavily modded or completely rebuilt?  Some nice pics of other pedals here too!   

It doesn't resemble your Parapedal because it's not a Parapedal, it's a Pedalflanger

[nelson]

Wow, look at the number of trimpots......