atypical enclosures

[junkyjunky]

hello. just wanted to see what kinds of "things" you all have used to enclose your pedals. i've seen mention of altoids tins and various others. anymore?

[octafish]

Since I built a bypass/looper box, I've used a number of things, tea-pot, dog food can, and a pencil box for example.

[junkyjunky]

nice choices and i love the inventiveness for sure. personally i've considered using those old sloped telephones with attached cords and rotary dialer & old metal pocket transistor radios. i already gutted one of each and both seem sturdy enough for such a project ecspecially that old phone. you can drop it from 7 feet and it won't leave a scratch so i'm sure stomping on it won't hurt.

[junkyjunky]

so far so far good. we've got an altiods tin, tea pot, dog food can, pencil box, rotary telephone, and a metal pocket transistor radio in the fx chain. i'd say it's most certainly is aesthetically pleasing to the eye. an eclectic mix for sure. anyone else want to patch cord on?

[trevize]

I buyed 30 broken hard disks for 7€ on ebay (about 5$+shipping) and currently using old hard disk cases. they are sturdy and do look strange.

[Coriolis]

Posted this a while back...

http://www.christiancoriolis.dk/diy.html#mixalot

And a friend of mine built a Soundlab Minisynth into an old laptop shell!
Pots and switches on the back of the display, so it has to be closed to play it.
When you want to look at the guts, you just open it like you would an actual laptop.

C

[junkyjunky]

some very neat ideas. i love the idea of incoporating pseudo found object/assemblage art with diy stompboxes.

[Ge_Whiz]

I'm currently building one of those simple 40106-based noise synths into a cardboard box file. It's tough enough to do the job, was available in several appealing colours, can have the lid propped up for a cool 'console' look, and was dirt cheap.

[DavidS]

I've got a bigmuff built into an old harddisk shell. Actually, a friend has it. Pretty durable, but to change the battery you need a torx driver!

[Paul Marossy]

There was one cat that had stompboxes built into these die cast cars. That was pretty cool...

[twabelljr]

Check these out at amz: http://www.muzique.com/lab/enclosures.htm

[phaeton]

I've recently picked up a 5" wooden bowl at the goodwill to put a stompbox in.  Just can't think of what would belong in there.  I've got a collection of (dead) electronic components such as routers, WAPs, hubs piled up in my junkbox.  I've got a really sturdy pressboard AOL box I might use for an "LOLOMGROTFLMAOWTFBBQ!!!!11oneoneone" drive or something.  Got some travel soap dishes that might work good for a headphone amp, but they're not strong enough to step on.  Bout the only thing i've actually mounted stompbox stuff in are the usual PVC drain caps.  I've built small practice amps (speaker and all) into Sterilite and Rubbermaid type storage bins:



  I'm always looking for neat stuff tho.

Coolest thing I've seen yet tho, is someone on this forum (in the pictures thread) put either an EH Hog's Foot or some Bass Distortion on a piece of two-by-four and wire wrapped it with six penny nails.

[Paul Marossy]

How about my sewing machine pedal A/B box?



Or my Easy Drive in some kind of kitchen gadget lid?

[tiges_ tendres]

This is a bass man ruby in an old answering machine, sound comes out of the built in speaker.  

I have also built rubys into old radio alarm clocks.  Best part is, they are all still functional!  You can jam a long with the radio, and still use it as an alarm clock.

[junkyjunky]

wow! necessity is the mother of invention so i'm guessing the father would be needing an enclosure for your stompbox. i can't get enough of these great ideas. paul i think if you threw your easy drive into the moonlit night sky snapped a quick photo you could sell the photo to ufologists. it definitely has that old ufo photo look to it. the responses have been great with so many wonderfully atypical housings. this is agent 007's kind of pedal enclosures. now we just need one in a pen that has the potential to mame an enemy. 

[Herr Masel]

My ruby is a tuna can and I have all sorts of tin biscuit boxes lying around. Some of them look nice but they are a little large and not so sturdy. I also pulled apart an old desk-lamp and I am planning on using the base of it for a fuzz. It looks alot like the old octavia space-ship design, and it's a similar size.

I've always wondered about sewing machine pedals - couldn't you make a wah from them, or are they built differently?

[twabelljr]

Paul, I really dig your Easy Drive idea. I've been keeping my eyes open for a lid or bowl like that since I first saw it at your site! Killer!

[Paul Marossy]

paul i think if you threw your easy drive into the moonlit night sky snapped a quick photo you could sell the photo to ufologists. it definitely has that old ufo photo look to it.

I caught this U.F.O. (Unidentified Fuzz Object) flying thru my house the other night! It had this certain eerie glow around it... 

I've always wondered about sewing machine pedals - couldn't you make a wah from them, or are they built differently?

It's nothing like a conventional wah, and if you could get it to work, it kind of works opposite of what you would be used to.

Paul, I really dig your Easy Drive idea. I've been keeping my eyes open for a lid or bowl like that since I first saw it at your site! Killer!

Cool, glad you like it. I have never found anything like it again. But I'm sure there's something out there...

[junkyjunky]

I caught this U.F.O. (Unidentified Fuzz Object) flying thru my house the other night! It had this certain eerie glow around it...  icon_lol

[soundcollage]

Here's 2 negistor oscillator circuits with ldr pitch controllers in the bottom half of a fake copper oil lamp with a piece of wood I found. The hieroglyphics are from a stamp set bought at a garage sale and spell out ANNOY.