Build your own guitar effects Part III finding parts & plans

[BlueZipher]

Great tutorial! But i had to mute after three times trying to concentrate LOL.. Gotta love Canned Heat..

[MrCraigary123]

Cheap

[thedeceivedband]

Really likin the song in the background

[lalomania1]

Great guide! How did you get those white decals??

[lalomania1]

@lalomania1 on the rebote..

[baronofbefoulment]

could you buy junk pedals just to use as cases and knobs and other parts

[wnorcott]

Yes but just do not pay a lot for the junk pedal or you might wind up losing money.

[ilikeymuzic]

seems like youd be the one to ask... can you use 1/4 watt resistors in place of 1/2 watt? cause that 500 peice deal sounds amazing

[wnorcott]

YES! Guitar effects only require 1/4 watt resistors, using 1/2 watt is overkill. There are very few exceptions to this but in those cases, the schematic/parts list would specify 1/2 watt.

I use 1/4 watt for everything and never had a resistor fail on me. Thanks for listening.

Bill

[ilikeymuzic]

thanks man!

[big16booger]

whats the song???

[wnorcott]

The song is "Sandy's Blues" by Canned Heat from their 1968 blues classic album Living The Blues. This is probably my #1 favorite slow blues song.

Thanks for listening

Bill

[renatoufo]

ok now i have the complete idea , now , where do i buy the parts? ( knobs, case, footswitch,etc) thank man !!

[jamesal]

do you think some one could make a pedal. that everytime you press on it. it could make a sound clip, sorta like a loop station from boss except you can record more then just guitar/bass sounds ?

[rpashoukos]

This is a wonderful and informative video Bill, my hats off to you. Everything I thought about building you've done. Some of these resources are new to me and I'll check them out. Background music great, fades and the like super. I'm just finishing my in guitar preamp and control board and think I'll do a video.. (Then I will remember what I did 10 years from now :)

Ray

[puppetmetal]

Now, I have a question on the tones and controls and all the knobs and shit. I hope this isn't confusing you or anything, but how do you know or what parts are needed in order to connect to a, let's say a Treble Control, or a Shape Control? Is it all in the colored wires or is there more to it than a Blue wire or a Brown wire? And how do you know what the knobs do before you start putting names on them when you're all finished?

Please reply as soon as possible, and thank you.

[wnorcott]

The color of the wires does not make a difference to the sound. Electricity goes through the wires the same way no matter what the color. A tone control like a Treble control has a capacitor and a resistor. A control knob also called a potentiometer, is a kind of resistor where the amount changes by how much you turn the knob. When you connect that with a capacitor is makes a filter that can either cut the treble or cut the bass, depending on where you put the capaictor.

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[wnorcott]

Usually the red wire is the + voltage and the black wire is the - voltage for example. If you watch my 3 videos I use the same set of colors in all my pedals.

But to  design the controls like tone controls to get the sound you want, in other words picking the right value of resistor and capacitor, involves some simple math formulas and a bit of understanding of electronics.Certain parts like capicitors and resistors are building block you can arrange in a circuit to make a tone control.

Bill

[swazza99]

hey, does any1 know where i could find a layout for a whammy pedal, any help would be appreciated, thanks

[SangreViVa]

Did you find the layout?

[swazza99]

2 months and this is the reply i get,

u cant build a proper one cos its digital so it needs a processor, u can build an analogue one but it wont give u a variable effect it will only make the pitch change in increments, which is pretty crappy

[SangreViVa]

Well I was asking because I know someone who does have the layout. Anyways, I forgot the link to his page. Good luck!!

[saintjames0]

i love you and im not gay

[saintjames0]

Im lovin it man you are the coolie your teachen me about electronic boards and that is exactly what i was lookin for and now im seein ways to save all kinds of money in my music hobby man this is great if i ever learn something cool man im goona make a video thanks man

[slash91mario]

you are the best

[wnorcott]

Thanks! And thanks for watching, I appreciate it. If you are a subscribe, you will get my new videos. I am doing a lot these days.

Bill

[medina1]

Super crazy helpful vid!!!

do you sell any of your pedals?

[wnorcott]

Thanks! As for selling pedals, sure I can make you one: Tell me what you want built and I am sure we can work something out. I am not building any more phase shifters for people though. Contact me by YouTube private message if you are interested in anything. I am not running a business but I can make a few for people who are interested.

Bill

[AntonIceChill]

oh yes labels -_- i just could wait to ask it-_-:p srr:p

[AntonIceChill]

tell me, how do you do the text on the case? (for example the "IC MUFF", "Volume",...etc)

(i mean you obviously dont just draw it by hand:p)

[bipin13]

hey saw your videos,m really impressd with your sound and set up brother.i bought stomp boxes bt m little confusd how to order up my pedals and all gears to get good professional sound.can u plz help with this?would be really great man ,thanx. i have, BBE pedal supply power, bossDD3, bossBD2, bossCS3, ibanez TS9, bossNS2, boss RC20XL(loop pedal), Joe satchurator dist pedal by VOX, boss CS3, line 6pod xt live, crybaby all kind of suggestions also welcome bro.hnks

[wnorcott]

Thanks bro. Here is how I would order them just my opinion. Guitar into the CS3 compressor so you start with a clean, sustain sound and boosts it some too. Then into the crybaby wah set your tone. The boss DD3 delay goes last. Now in between the wah and the delay go your distortions pedals which is your Tube Scremer, Blues Driver VOX which you probably only use one of them at a time. The wildcard is the NS2 noise blocker and the looper, never used one I build all my own stuff.

Bill

[sanquilo]

I think wah THEN compressor (:

[akagie]

i want to build a chorus pedal. is there a site that has the boards for those?

[killitb]

Check out the sites he provided, there are different versions on almost every site.

Kit, go to diystompbox

Otherwise they have good schematics at tonepad

[wnorcott]

2:59 We're all tellin' the truth now Darlin'

[killitb]

Woo hoo! that sounds way easier then trying to make a layout out of these schematics, even with the cadsoft layout editor.

Thanks for all your help.

[killitb]

The sites you have recomended are very useful.

I'm just wondering if the pc layouts that you see (such as in the craig anderton book or even on some of the internet sites) are to scale. So that I could simply print out the jpeg file and it would be the right size to fit all the components.

[wnorcott]

Yes the Anderton book is to scale. I have printed the layouts from tonepad and GGG and runoffgroove they are to scale also. Some of them actually print a ruler next to the circuit layout so you can measure the printout. It is not a bad idea, especially your first few effects, to purchase ready-made circuit boards from some of these internet sites they are usually between $6-$14 for a nicely made board. I often buy circuit boards myself to save time, though I also make my own boards.

[killitb]

So when you have this 10 color wire set it does not come with any shielded wire im assuming?

Where is it that you would purchase the shielded wire to use on your input and outputs?

[wnorcott]

That is a good question. No, the 10 color wire used for soldering is not shielded wire. Yes, you want to use shielded cable on the input to the effect. Here is an easy way to find one. If you just locate a spare audio cable that you use to hook up a stereo or video game that has the RCA plugs on it (usually a white one and a red one on each end). Anyway these are really easy to find and the cable in them is shielded cable and just the right thickness to use in an effects pedal.

[mynameiscaleb]

this is a question id like you to get back to me on. it more on contrstion but anyway.

on a schematic there are earth/ground parts. wher do they go?

[wnorcott]

On effects circuits all the parts that connect to ground including the ground lug on the guitar jacks, all connect to the circuit board in the area marked ground which is also called the "ground plane". On the circuit board the ground plane runs around the outside of the circuit, usually on the bottom. All parts that connect to ground are connected to each other. The negative terminal (-) of the battery is usually connected to ground at some point to complete the circuit.

[mrgreanjeans]

i have a question about the music.who is that singing?i have heard a grateful dead version with pigpen singing,and sounds just like his voice.i dare say thats not him,but the resemblance is uncanny.i would like to know who it is so i can find more.must have been a big influence on pigpen.

[wnorcott]

Hi there, sorry I missed your question before. The song is "Sandy's Blues" by Canned Heat from their 1968 album Living the Blues. The singer is Bob Hite.

[wnorcott]

One of the few Radio Shack parts I can recommend to get you started especially if a beginner is this

500-Piece 1/4-Watt Carbon-Film Resistor Assortment

$12.99 Model: 271-312

Catalog #: 271-312

I put a link to it in About This Video