The thing I really don't like with Wah Wah pedals is the on/off switch under the treadle, the way you can't avoid contact with it when you are working the treadle. I remember seeing a Wah Wah pedal with a slightly different design where the switch is under the treadle but there is a hole immediately above it in the treadle so you can work it without touching the top of the switch but still press the switch when you want to.

Can anyone remember what make the Wah Wah pedal is please?

Hi all,
I am having some problems with a new 3DPT switch I have wired up.

I have a bit of NEWBY question....

Is there a correct way (top or bottom) the switch should be wired? I'm pretty confident I've followed my instructions correctly.

Looking at CODA effects here:

It suggested there is a numbered sequence to the lugs and was wondering if I have wired it upside down?
I can't see any markings to show where the 'No. 1' lug is located or a top side etc..

:hmmm:

Hi,

I am currently building a dual delay pedal using 2 discrete PCB kits that are two different types of delay.

I am housing them in one pedal enclosure, so at the moment Delay A runs into Delay B. However, I would like to add a switch to change the direction/order of the effects. ie Delay A -> Delay B when the switch is one way and Delay B -> Delay A with the switch the other way.

Does anyone know of a simple way to do this?

Please note that I'm fairly new to pedal building, so simple...

Hello, hope everyone is doing well.

I made a two loop Looper, and I am wondering if anyone can help me to wire this up by using just one switch to switch between the two loops? This would mean that one of the Loops would be active. I have attached a schematic of how I wired up the Looper I have now, just remove loop 3. I would also like to have LED's to indicate which loop is active

Thanks
Rob

Good day, ladies and gentlemen,

I need a channel switcher to help my forgetful ears compare between builds. I wanted buffered switching and I decided CD4051-4052-4043 multiplexers would be the way to go (I have a box full of 4000 series CMOS ICs so I wanted to use them).
For the control part, the ICs that seemed more appropriate for the job and were in the box happened to be CD4093 and CD4042.

At first I tried to mimic R.G.'s Programmable FX Switcher with Amp Controls , but R.G.'s using...

I am building a stomp box that can be used as a preamp or as a pedal. This will be based on the preamp of a hot-rodded Marshall.

The output of a 4-stage tube preamp is too hot for the input of am amp, so I wanted to install a switch that will attenuate the output for use as a pedal.

Hi
I have this scheme, for true bypass switch with very fast change
can someone help me with the pcb? I do not know.

I am looking for a 2PDT or 3PDT Stomp Switch that has a non LED (or non powered) On / Off indicator, does anything like this exists, if so can you point me to one. Though it may seem odd, I want to build something ( a very simple One .003 mf capacitor stomp box, to simulate the strangle circuit in a Fender Jaguar) that has no other parts than the jacks, capacitor and the stomp switch ( to keep it as simple and close to the original circuit) but of course, I would like to know if it's on or off....

Hello
I again asked the bypass question on the relay, using a microcontroller.
I see several circuits that are similar, but the microcontrollers are different
Basically it's Attiny13 / Attiny85 / Pic12F675
I'm still far from digital technologies and I want to start studying these technologies, tell me about the difference between these microcontrollers in the operation of the bypass switch.
Will there be any difference in the work or for these purposes the microcontroller model does not play a...

Hi
I would like to build a simple passive box which would allow me to run two signal paths in parallel :
- One dry (with a volume control),
- and one going to an external effect loop (with pre and post volume control).

I have been using a passive mixer schematic i had found a couple years ago on the web (i think it was from Beavis audio website, but i can't find it anymore), and tried to modify it to suit my needs.
Overall, it's a very easy project, but I am rather new to DIY, so i am not...

Hi there guys, I'm new on this forum but I have built around 20 pedals. Still learning. This is my first post here. I heard about relay bypass switching and found few interesting schematics online. Some of them use transistors, microcontrollers, 4069 chips. Whats the main differnce beetwen microcontroler and 4069? Is it just current draw or there is something more? Also, what is your opinion on relay bypass circuits?

Hi, I need to switch between 2 pedals during my set (like a fuzz for rhythm and one for chorus/lead) and I prefer switch between the 2 with only one switch and shut them off with an other switch for get my clean signal.

I designed this layout but I don't know if I did right, or maybe there is some improvement to add. I don't put the resistances for LED.
Also is it possible to add an extra switch:
- to put loop A on B or B on A?
- to put A and B in parrallel? (like this one:
Thanks

Hello,

Here is the 3PDT wiring I use for all my builds (pic from Gaussmarkov) :

I ran across a situation where I'd like to have a bicolor status LED (bypass/on).
Implementation would be easy if I could use the entire center row of the 3PDT switch.
That in turn would mean I'd need to remove the wire that enables circuit input grounding in bypass mode.

AFAIK the sole purpose of input grounding is to avoid popping when you turn the effect on and off.
And it is only effective if popping is...

Hi, I am new in building DIY guitar pedals.

I own a project studio and started to build some pedals to experiment while mixing tracks with them.

I built a simple overdrive first. It works well, but there is a humming, which is kind of loud.

If I touch the output-cable it goes away.

Does anybody know a trick to kill the humming by wire the ground to the chassis or anything like that?

Thanks!

I want to break a signal path which has no discrete components in it as of now. I want a 3 position toggle switch to have the options of Stock (signal pass through), Resistor 1 (signal path broken and routed into Resistor 1), and Resistor 2 (signal path broken and routed into Resistor 2). I've been pondering this, but I think I have figured out how to do it. Can anyone look this over and see if this looks correct? The switch is an ON-ON-ON DP3T switch. Forgive the sloppy Paint work, I'm a...

What's up guys? I'm pretty green to building pedals. I was wondering if someone could draw me up an A/B switch with tuner/mute switch and a list of materials I may need. I also want this to have 3 LEDs, one for each circuit.
Thanks in advance! :D

Hello, guys, I'm building my pedal board and I'm wondering about one switch with can manipulate specific effect pedal into chain.

Recently I saw the Ibanes TS808DX with boost section with one toggle switch it moves the boos section before the TS808 or after the TS.

I'm thinking one way to wire specif pedal in my pedal board like one phase or chorus, to move it before the overdrive pedal or after, to create new dynamic sounds.

I'm testing and have a lot of difference using one chorus pedal...

Hi,

I am building up a looper pedal but want to be sure what I connect the grounds to, it's a six way looper, do I connect the jacks and 3pdt to the case or do I need th isolate them? I am going to be using the schematic below also, can anyone see any issues with that and also the best way to ground,I am only using a power supply no battery. thanks for any help in advance

Hello
I'm dublicating my (bought) 2 loop TB box with led, to a smaller 1 loop without led box

1) In the circuit shown below, the send of the loop, is connected to ground when the loop is bypassed
Is it to avoid clicking/popping ?

2) The 2 looper has a stereo input jack
Does this only serve a purpose when connecting a led ?
or is there a ground-issue , if I simply use a mono jack for my looper minus led

In an effort to try and clean up the wiring in my builds i'd like to try and start to braid the wires going to the pots.

i'm guessing/assuming that tone controls shouldn't add noise, but gain and volumes controls make me nervous, especially with high gain pedals like the dr. boogie.

can i safely braid the wires going to the gain and volume pots without adding noise or oscillation?

thanks

Hi. New here. I have to replace a stomp switch in a Son of a screamer pedal I builded many years ago. The new stompswitch have 8 lugs. Can`t find any schematics on it. The lugs are numbered in pairs: 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4. Tried a lot of configurations, but no luck. Also like to put a led on it.

I'm hoping someone could check the changes I made to the wiring diagram I'll be using.

I'm an absolute beginner with building stomp boxes and I'm planning on making a ZVex SHO my first build.

This is a link to the wiring diagram I came up with by simply copying information I found on the web.

Now the thing is I absolutely hate having to unplug my pedals to conserve the battery and is one of the reasons I do without batteries whenever possible. So seeing as I'll be building this pedal I...

Hi Folks,

I working on a stereo circuit at the moment which will have a stereo 1/4 output. What if I wanted to get a mono signal from this? Could I just plug in a mono 1/4 lead? Or would this double the strength of the signal? Would it be better to have a seperate output that has combined the stereo signals in some appropriate way?

Cheers,

ff

New to the world of relay/microprocessor based switching. A friend of mine is looking for an overdrive, distortion, and fuzz in one box. He wants three footswitches, and wants the switching to function as follows:

OD-on, dist-bypass, fuzz-bypass
OD-bypass, dist-on, fuzz-bypass
OD-bypass, dist-bypass, fuzz-on

Is there a way to accomplish this using one of the true-bypass relay boards from Muzique or Small Bear? I'm having trouble finding any examples or starting points for this. Any help is a...