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Build Your own pedal (.com)
« on: March 23, 2009, 10:14:52 PM »
Seems Brian Wampler from Indyguitarist.com is going into the pedal kit business

http://www.buildyourownpedal.com
There are some descriptions of pedals below which will be available as kits

Can you guess which pedals they are copies of

Retro Screamer
The Retro Screamer is a perfect reproduction of a classic overdrive in a green box. This is the most popular overdrive in the world for good reason.  We supply multiple mod sheets to help you explore the many variances of this pedal existing in the boutique world today.  We selected what we felt were the most effective and most musical mods available which will allow you to turn your pedal into literally one of dozens of popular boutique pedals which sell for hundreds of dollars.

Ratical Distortion
The Ratical distortion pedal is a recreation of a classic pedal in a black box.  This has become a very popular pedal for modern boutiquers to modify.  We supply several of the best known mods around today.  Included is the famed ‘308’ chip that made the original so sought after by some of the greatest guitarists in the world.

Supervisor OD-Uno
The Supervisor OD-Uno is a recreation of a classic OD.  Many Boss pedals made for great platforms for modification.  We supply what we feel are the most effective mods for this pedal
Supervisor DS-Uno
The Supervisor DS-Uno is a recreation of another classic.  This is also one of the classic circuits prime for modification to achieve optimal distortion tones.  We supply several of the best mods available for this circuit.  The DS-1 has long been used by pro guitarists such as Joe Satriani to achieve the monster tone he gets.

The Sheriff Ballbreaker
The Sheriff Ballbreaker is a classic circuit that has had many boutique clones in this modern era.  We feel that it is a great starting point for creating and even greater pedal.  Our mods capture the true essence of this circuit and bring it to a whole nuva level.  One of the great ‘kings of tone’ in the effect pedal world was designed around this circuit, you are now able to modify this circuit into your own tonal king.

The Sheriff Speed Brake
The Sheriff Speedbrake is also a classic circuit that was great in its time.  We felt it could be improved substantially.  Our mods make this the pedal what it needs to be.

The Sherriff Ripper
The Sheriff Ripper was an early calling for metal tones but we feel it does not quite hit the mark for modern high gain.  Our mods will bring you into the current age of metal.

Mixer Distortion Mas

The Mixer Distortion Mas is a classic circuit used by many great players in the past.  We always felt it was not worthy of the name distortion.  Try our mods and hear this pedal come alive.  Great guitarists such as Randy Rhoads used the original version of this pedal to great advantage, our mods can give you this same great tone that he was able to get out of the pedal.

Supervisor OD-Tres
The Supervisor OD-Tres is yet another recreation of a classic circuit.  We feel our mods make this pedal a contender to any pedal to date.

Nobleman ODR Uno
The Nobleman ODR Uno is a recreation of a pedal that has rarely been seen in the modern boutique world.  Widely known as one of the best OD’s ever made and commonly used by the Nashville session katz.  The original is too noisy and does not have true bypass making it a tone sucker.  Try our mods and you may just find the best OD made.  Included are the best parts available making this tonally superior in every way to the famed Nashville Overdrive.

Five O'Clock Shadow

The Five O’Clock Shadow is a recreation of the most famous smiling Fuzz.  We supply some mods to an already great sounding pedal.  This pedal gave a certain left handed guitar god his mojo.

The Fat Kitty

The Fat Kitty is a recreation of a classic wooly fuzz.  We put our spin on this circuit to give it a more useable and musical sound.  Long hailed as the ‘sound of the smashing pumpkins’, our mods give you the exact specs used to get that tone.

The Octopus
Hendrix anyone? The common complaint about the Octave type pedal was the fact that you were stuck in that sound.  Our mods provide a foot switchable Octave up so you can use the fuzz side on its own.

JFET booster
Just a little boost for your boosting needs... the JFET is the solid state version of a 12ax7 tube gain stage

Buffer Booster

The buffer Booster keeps your large pedal boards rockin with no loss of signal or tone. Using the same circuitboard, you can either build an extremely accurate opamp based buffer (featuring ultra-low impedance) or high-headroom opamp booster.

Wampler "Plexidrive" Overdrive
Wampler Pedals designed this pedal to emulate Marshall JTM-45 type of tones, now you can get everything you need to build it yourself.

Built as a cross between a "Marshall 18" and a JTM45, this pedal was designed to sound and react eerily similar to the famed Marshall Amp. Includes a switch that enables it to sound great with either clean sparkly amps (like fender twins, Vox, etc.) to darker beefier amps (like Vintage Marshalls, Mesa Boogies, etc).

Wampler "Plextortion" distortion pedal

One of Wampler Pedals most sought after distortion pedals - the original "plextortion" pedal was designed to sound like and react similar to a Marshall JCM800. This is an exact clone, part for part.

Soundclips:
http://www.indyguitarist.com/soundclips2/plextortion-207-vox.mp3

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leLJUpQHqiA

Wampler "Cranked AC" overdrive

The Cranked AC is a pedal that was designed to emulate a cranked Vox ac-30 in order to achieve tones similar to Brian May's tone.

Specs:
* High grade film capacitors and resistors picked for their superior sound and response
* Very pick responsive - play light and it's clean, dig into the strings and it gets nice and dirty
* Very light overdrive all the way to near fuzz-like when at max settings
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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2009, 10:27:25 PM »
I used to be on his email list years ago. It was a subscription for around $10 a year I think. I never did anything with all that info though.
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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2009, 11:07:17 PM »
Pretty cool that they give you info on possible mods for it as well, seems like a good way to get familiar with how that stuff all works.

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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2009, 05:21:40 AM »
Dude that is one awesome learning opportunity besides being able to build your own expensive pedals. Awesome I wish that he had a delay mod in there

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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2009, 07:09:48 AM »
Very interesting !!!   All depends on the prices though, doesn't it.

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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2009, 10:16:10 AM »
Hmm

I signed up for a life time membership to his mods page (showing you how to mod boss pedals etc); only for him to revoke it about a year later and request more money!

I have to say i was also pretty unimpressed with the "pinnacle" distortion pedal that i got from him at a cost of $150 it was pretty poor really and really did not take to certain (most) amps at all.

The modded SD1 (cost £15 of ebay and modded by me with instructions free of the internet) was far superior!

I also got his book how to build effect pedals, which was truly ashamefully bad.  These digrams were in the wrong order, some of the pictures were just black squares it was really really poor.  After contacting him he did email be a newer version (although id paid for hard copy) but why send out something so bad in the first place!

From my personal experience i'd stick to BYOC or General Guitar Gadgets

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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2009, 11:24:22 AM »
keep my eye on this one..new pedal to build *L*
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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2009, 11:36:26 AM »
I have ordred a kit from Germany a couple of days ago. It's a Box Of Rock clone.

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Re: Build Your own pedal (.com)
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2009, 11:41:37 AM »
mmm sounds interesting too
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