My cheap attempt at Pedal building (pics)

[crawler486]

too lazy to build individual enclosures for each of them.
powered by a single ps from GGG, light duty DPDT stomp switch,
cheap plastic knobs, white "transfer letter" for the labels.

I'm planning to spend more on my next build to make it look more
decent...

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[RDV]

Looks pretty damn good to me. How did you fabricate the enclosure? And did you use my volume recovery mod for the SD-9?

RDV

[Peter Snowberg]

More decent?  :shock:  

That looks fantastic to me!

Nice job!

Take care,
-Peter

[crawler486]

Looks pretty damn good to me. How did you fabricate the enclosure? And did you use my volume recovery mod for the SD-9?

RDV

Thanks!

The enclosure is made from four 24inch long aluminum strips of different width.
The base(bottom) is wood because I can't find aluminum that wide.
I just  stick aluminum tape at the bottom for shielding.

Didnt do any mod for the SD but I would love to try the volume recovery one of these days.

[RDV]

I love the sound of the SD-9 circuit, but it couldn't keep up with my other pedals volume wise. In fact I didn't think it was ever really hitting unity gain. I just used the other side of the dual OA as a post EQ gain stage with a modest boost. Without the volume recovery stage, I feel the circuit is somewhat like a Dist+ with a tone control, just not enough gain there to push the BMP style tone control involved. It roars quite well now.

RDV

[zener]

You can bring 'em all    

Nice one there . What are those light duty DPDT stomp switches? Are they made of steel too? I'm using plastic  DPDT that I can get from Deeco for only P6 a piece, minus the knob.

Yeah, I understand why you have to put everything in one huge box. It's really hard to saw and cut aluminum sheets, my hands become sore all those times. Are the individual effects have interior division, something like a sheet wall in between effects? If not, that might cause some unwanted noises.

What paint did you used? Does the box has a clear coat to protect hose letter transfers? BTW, what is that trash master stompbox on the right? Is that DIY also? I've never seen a commercial pedal painted so girly pink, not to mention that it was even labeled "trash master" :roll:  Sorry, lots of questions :wink:

Samick amp from JB, hmmm. How much, P4,000? Before, I used that PSU enclosure on top your amp as my effects enclosure and they ended up crappy and they were not sturdy enough.

You could have built a wah pedal and put it in the right most part of the box. With that, your built would look like a commercial multi-effects processor like the one from Zoom and Roland :twisted:  I have a nice idea for building foot rocker for a wah. I've already built two wah pedal. The first needs major overhauling while the second one ended up pretty nice out of a wood enclosure.

See this:



Now, try to imagine :wink:

[crawler486]

You can bring 'em all    

Nice one there . What are those light duty DPDT stomp switches? Are they made of steel too? I'm using plastic  DPDT that I can get from Deeco for only P6 a piece, minus the knob.

Yeah, I understand why you have to put everything in one huge box. It's really hard to saw and cut aluminum sheets, my hands become sore all those times. Are the individual effects have interior division, something like a sheet wall in between effects? If not, that might cause some unwanted noises.

What paint did you used? Does the box has a clear coat to protect hose letter transfers? BTW, what is that trash master stompbox on the right? Is that DIY also? I've never seen a commercial pedal painted so girly pink, not to mention that it was even labeled "trash master" :roll:  Sorry, lots of questions :wink:

Samick amp from JB, hmmm. How much, P4,000? Before, I used that PSU enclosure on top your amp as my effects enclosure and they ended up crappy and they were not sturdy enough.

You could have built a wah pedal and put it in the right most part of the box. With that, your built would look like a commercial multi-effects processor like the one from Zoom and Roland :twisted:  I have a nice idea for building foot rocker for a wah. I've already built two wah pedal. The first needs major overhauling while the second one ended up pretty nice out of a wood enclosure.

See this:

Now, try to imagine :wink:

Zener...
1. The switches are plastic.
2. No interior division. I have already fixed the noise problem.
3. Paint is acrylic, clear coat is lacquer.
4. The Pink Thrash Master is not a DIY pedal.
5. The Sammick amp is only P1,800, if u visit JB right now they have a  
   better version with a built-in overdrive and a better look, also P1,800.
6. I already built a DIY wah pedal but it's too hideous to be posted.

whoooooa...

[zener]

So, the Samick I've seen may probably the larger one. So what's the wattage rating of that amp you have? Also, what effect (brand) is that pink box there?

[crawler486]

So, the Samick I've seen may probably the larger one. So what's the wattage rating of that amp you have? Also, what effect (brand) is that pink box there?

it's only 10watts, it looks bigger in the picture though.
The pink one is a DOD, it sounds heavy, good for chopping riffs.
The other one is an Arion stereo phaser.

[bwanasonic]

Looks sweet! Do you use that fan in the upper left for your Leslie effect :wink: ? Now you need to build a tube amp!  

Kerry M