Problems with understanding the book "Advanced DIY by Indy Guitarist"

[kin0]

Hello,
Some time ago I bought the book "Advanced DIY" by Indy Guitarist which should teach how to design your own pedals. I only had the time to start reading it few days back. The problem is that there are only description of exciting pedals and explanations of how their book. Can any one explain me how should I learn how to design my own stompbox without any direction (I still don't get how is everything working and whats things I should include in my design- I'm designing a booster pedal). Can any one that owned the book explain to me how should I learn form it?

I would E-mail Wampler and Indy Guitarist but they claim that since they stop selling these books they don't answer questions about it.


Thanks, Kino

[Mark Hammer]

People ask the same question fairly regularly, and the advice is really always the same: get books on electronic theory, get yourself collections of schematics (my own shelf now has 36 binders of schematics), and study it all.

You will quickly find that there is not all that much left to "design".  How many ways can you think of to count to 10?

What you WILL learn, however, is how to take an existing design, and make it behave in a way that meets your needs and preferences.

[Electron Tornado]

You will quickly find that there is not all that much left to "design".  How many ways can you think of to count to 10?

One of the best statements I've seen on the subject.

[Paul Marossy]

Can any one that owned the book explain to me how should I learn form it?

I would E-mail Wampler and Indy Guitarist but they claim that since they stop selling these books they don't answer questions about it.

I have that book. It's written for the person that already knows some basic electronics and has some stompbox building experience under their belt. The circuits in there are given as examples to build, tweak and learn from. It's not a "Stompbox Building For Dummies" book. 

[avianoguitarist]

Yes--it's a book written for people with a working knowledge of circuits.  It's similar to the plethora of guitar building/modifying books with the assumption that the readers have basic woodworking skills.
Put the book on the shelf and let it collect dust until you've scoured the Internet--learning all you can on the finer points of electronics.  A good place to start is guitarpcb.com

[object88]

How many ways can you think of to count to 10?

I've been working on a method to count to 10, starting at 0 and working backwards, but it's taking a _really_ long time.  Might be best if I started with the traditional route. 

[sault]

Counting to 10 is easy if you count in binary.