JohnnyG Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 yesterday in an attempt to stave off my boredom on a saturday afternoon i decided i would build my own FX pedal. rummaged around in the electronics labs and found all the parts i needed to build the Green Ringer off General Guitar Gadgets sorted it all out, didnt have a foot switch so just used a micro switch instead. also found an old steel case and used the drills and sand blaster in the metal work department to turn it into a pretty decent enclosure. take it back to my room and plug it in.....and nothing lol turns out id forgotten to connect the output jack to ground. so... sorted it out today and it works a treat. very cool effect and im gonna be having a lot of fun with it. ive wanted to play around with an octave pedal for a while and this is definatelly filling in the slot i realise that this isnt an actually guitar but i thought ou guys would at least like to hear about it laters JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asm Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 thats cool. do you know any good links to some more diy schematics for pedals and stuff. i know about 2 but it would be nice to have a section with alot of links so people could use it as a database. t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyG Posted March 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 just go to www.generalguitargadgets.com and not only are there a huge load of schematics on there but there are loads more sites in the links section. seriouslly, just aboiut everything you could ever need is on that links page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren wilson Posted March 21, 2004 Report Share Posted March 21, 2004 One of my favourite patches i put together on my Boss GT-6 uses an octave fuzz pedal for its solo boost. It absolutely wails! Crazy weird overtones and on-the-verge-of-out-of-control responsiveness. It sounds like the amp is about to blow up. In a good way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 thats an octave up right.. there are few schematics available that have some wicked results if you want the nicest octave up sound go to geofex.com and look up the mosfet doubler, or jfet doubler it is a great article an easy build and a killer pedal also if you want an octave down you can make one of those for single note lines.. or you can make it like a pseudo ring modulator by playing chords or dissonant things on it but you can get by with about 15 parts.. utilizing a simple sqwave device and a binary counter a cd4024 i do belive.. also check out www.geofex.com www.diystompboxes.com they have a schematics section www.tonepad.com boards for sale there too and http://www.geocities.com/tpe123/folkurban/...z/snippets.html circuit snippets the rambler is a good octave up and the ugly face is a good octave down pseudo synth thing. and for another octave up look at the last one on the page and if you are looking for all out madness with a 555 timer a box a coulple of jacks and a switch and a cap or two you can make this http://www.geocities.com/austenfantanio/di...ivisionhell.htm listen to the sample to see what it does that is me inputing a freq generator into the input of this thing, and then changing the division from one octave to well all over and also changing the input pitch too.. sounds killer with guitar.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ansil Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 also check out the bobtavia for an octave up too its wicked. if ayone wants the bobtavia or any not listed in the links above email me i printed out five books of schematics years ago from the internet i can scan them for ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankenstrat Posted March 24, 2004 Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 I built the bobtavia, nice pedal, i have alot of fun with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyG Posted March 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 24, 2004 at the moment im bui8lding another small pedal which is basically just to use with the octave. i found that if i chucked it through my jack hammer then having the gain set above a certain level meant that i just got a slightlly different overdrive sound, not much octave to hear in it. basically i just decided to stick a booster based on the rangemaster and a single transistor overdrive circuit together. it should give enough overdrive to make the octave sound sweet without drowning it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Bell Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 . i found that if i chucked it through my jack hammer then having the gain set above a certain level meant that i just got a slightlly different overdrive sound, not much octave to hear in it. Try putting the octave after the jackhammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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