The Cleanest Orange Squeezer On The Planet? -- guitar effect demo -- I built

[4eyed4stringer]

Sounds great! Nice job!

[isomikieee]

does it cut any bass?

[wnorcott]

@isomikieee No, it does not cut bass. I use the pedal on bass guitar all the time. Thanks for listening Brother.

Bill

[isomikieee]

@wnorcott exactly what I wanted,thank you! :D

[JohnFritzler]

What type of non-electrolytic capacitors did you use ? Will regular ceramic non-electrolytic caps work?

[wnorcott]

@JohnFritzler Yes John. I used metal film capacitors with 1% tolerance. If you want you can use ceramic caps.

[doc998]

sounds like a little fugazi

[wnorcott]

@doc998 What is fugazi I am not familiar with that work. Is that Italian?

Bill

[doc998]

@doc998 n emo band from DC with Ian Mackaye

your video: 0:12

strangelight by off of the argument album

fugazi: 0:17

give them a chance if you like their style. they are one of my favorite bands and they are quite amazing

also it means F***ed up got ambushed zipped in, from vietnam

[wnorcott]

@doc998 Thanks brother, I will give them a listen.

Bill

[snitsferland]

wow man nice could you send me the schematics and parts list pls im gonna make it :D

[wnorcott]

@snitsferland the Tonepad web site has the schematics.

Bill

[akkudakkupl]

so mate what are the substitutions? :-)

[wnorcott]

@akkudakkupl the op amp is a Maxim MAX42 and the resistors are all 1% metal film type.

Bill

[akkudakkupl]

@wnorcott thanks :-)

[lordofgstrings]

what op amp did you use?

[wnorcott]

@lordofgstrings In this particular one I believe I settled on a Maxim MAX412. Thanks for listening.

Bill

[FourStarAlien]

what and where exactly do i change in the capacitors if im going to do a bass version of this?

[bucktheusa]

Any reason why guitars don't have any built in effects? With all this POD stuff I'd imagine it would be a simple mod to just install it in the body and wire it to the INPUT/OUTPUT's.

My first electric was a Kay LP "Synth" guitar with built in fuzz, wah, whirlwind, echo, a phase IN/OUT switch, tone, vol, and a speed knob for the effects.

To my knowledge no other guitar exists aside from some project the guy from muse worked on to add a KAOS pad.

[bassmangarrett151]

@bucktheusa he also put a Zvex fuzz factory in one of his guitars

[alkali2010]

Hey excellent video. I chose to do the Naranjito as my first ever pedal build. However... what's that little thing you put the IC in? It would be great if I could change out the IC if I feel like trying other alternatives. I'm a little averse to soldering an IC straight onto a board.

[wnorcott]

It is an IC socket.

[703224796]

this is a good build! I made mine about a year ago.....your build sounds great! no noise or anything. isn't it amazing how the magic in this pedal is that it seems as if it is not doing anything at all?

[wnorcott]

Thanks glad ya like it Brother. I put a lot of work into making it real clean and noise free and distortion free. Thanks for listening.

Bill

[amfibes]

Yeah it's clean but you don't get very much compression. I tuned mine to compress a bit harder but i also get some subtle distortion. But that's the mojo of this particular pedal IMO.

Try it, you might like it.

[wnorcott]

Well the volume does remain  exactly the same regardless of whether I pick the strings hard or pick soft. And the notes that I let ring sustain for 8 or 10 seconds. That is compression.

What I do not have though, is any noise or distortion. Thanks for listening.

Bill

[GlxxyGrl]

I just finished mine from tonepad too, I did my own pcb( wasnt best but I ran clean beads of solder on trace afterwards. I used mods listed and instead of trimpot I put in a pot so I dont have to open up to tweek

[natn0]

cool stuff, but definitely not the cleanest build.

[wnorcott]

Cleanest sounding I mean. I really don't care what he circuit board looks like LOL.

[tgraham76]

man this sounds good, u build one and then post it, then critique.

[tgraham76]

this is a nice sounding compressor, i have 1 i will post soon, good job.

[wnorcott]

thank you

[moshedol]

hi cool pedale how did you cut the hi frequency of the effect ?

[wnorcott]

That was just the tone controls on the guitar itself. Thanks for the kind words.

[alfalfasprout69]

nice pictorial and playing dude...

[LIELTHEBOSS]

Sounds really good!

I like it, you use film caps, metal-oxide resistors, and a good op-amp - the best recipe for an excellent pedal!

[niehans]

Hi Bill.

Thanks for great video.

What opamp did you use?

Cheers

Søren

[wnorcott]

Hi Søren

Thanks for listening! The op amp in this one is a Maxim MAX412. I upgraded all the other components too.

Bill

[layupe]

Is this some kind of joke? yeah it must be :)

Actually how many OS did you heard before?

[wnorcott]

Actually I have heard dozens and most of them sound like shit including the original Dan Armstrong from 1973 which I bought new. Noisy as hell.

[rayray2012]

Have you ever mixed different effects from tonepad together, or do you just build the single effects pedals and string them together? I'm kind of curious about building some of my own effects, but I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to electronics and schematics....

[wnorcott]

thanks for listening.

I build each pedal separately and string them together. That is really the most flexible arrangment for me because you can connect any pedal in any order.

If you subscribe, I do a lot of videos on effects. I also created a 3 part video tutorial on how to build your own pedals. If you click on my username wnorcott it will bring you to my channel.

Bill

[Damien6ix]

Really cool! I'd love to see some more on wiring PCBs to Switch/DC/LEDS etc... Do you use a millenium type of Bypass board?

[faunoram]

it would be nice to see in your demos the bypass signal first, then different settings of the pedal and different pickup positions in the guitar

its just a suggestion

by the way beautiful sounds of this one

keep posting more

rock on!

[AFuryDevine]

what opamp did you end up using

[wnorcott]

Thanks for listening.

Yes it is the Tonepad layout. I etched my own board and sourced my own components. Results with these is all about quality of components and which components you mod. My advice is avoid crap op amps like 4558 and TL072 and use only the best op amps and capacitors available, and use 1% resistors.

One of the tags on this video is Tonepad so people interested in Tonepad can find it.

Bill

[sfdog1369]

Well Bill Nice To See Yall Can Squeeze Oranges While Playin Yer Guitar But Dont Yer Strings Get Sticky !!! Good Stuff Bill Thx Bro

[wnorcott]

Hi Dog, thanks for listening Bro. I am going to take a few days off of building effects pedals and play some new songs this weekend so "stay tuned"

your pal,

Bill

[NorthernSoulLeon]

Sounds pretty good! Is this one of the Dan Armstrong pedal clones?

Again, found a strip board layout but the wiring looks well off! These amatuer stripboarders!!! lol!

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