How To Build Your First Guitar Pedal Part 2
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Continuing in this video series, I start off drilling the enclosure and painting the back ground using an airbrush. After that I populate the enclosure with the necessary potentiometers, jacks and foot switch.
Once it is fully stuffed we add the off board wiring and finish up the build!
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Great tutorial! I find it helpful to keep a tube of soldering flux with a toothpick in it to dab a little flux on the solder pads. It really helps the solder flow better with larger solder joints, like on footswitches, pots and jacks. Also helps with tinning wires, so it's a quick process where the insulation doesn't melt and the wire end doesn't get too fat.
This is a great advice! I use a syringe of flux to apply in the hard to reach areas. Cannot recommend it highly enough
Amazing job. The best I've seen with this much detail. I pretty much follow the same process EXCEPT I never knew that the foot switches were so delicate. Great advice on soldering those. Good system for the LED too. One thing, I've read not to tin wires going onto a circuit board. Not sure when/where or why, but I do recall seeing that. Its a real pain in the ass though to try and shove those strands through without a random strand doing its best to ground itself to something, or heaven forbid get against something else. I think I'll follow you there and tin from now on. Thanks for this. Awesome job. Looking forward to seeing how you finish up!
Thank you very much! I really appreciate it. That whole stray wire is why I tin everything. I had a build derailed because of one tiny little wire and it drove me crazy!
thanks for this. putting together my first one right now
Hell yeah! You better post it on the forum!
You're a great teacher with lots of info (and funny af)...Thanks!
more build vids incoming?
Thank you and absolutely! I plan on finishing this out with three more videos. One on how i do lettering, one on bias and sounds and another dedicated to painting an image on the pedal itself. After this video series there will be more playing demoes of some builds of rare pedals and then after that maybe. Anything you would like to see?
@@dkpedals Could you build a madbean VFE Blues King? I would love to see you demo that some time.
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When testing with the multimeter for continuity, have you ever say, "WTH?" And realize the button for the foot switch has been depressed closing the circuit?😁
I actually have one filmed ready to go just never released it. I will try to get it posted tomorrow.
Super helpful video big 👍🏼
Thank you!
Thank you for part 2! Love the way you explained pot's in 30 seconds and a few scribbles, lol. I understood immediately. I very much agree with the B pot's don't give enough color control, that's why I usually crank it. Love the C1K idea. Looking forward to trying it out. Would you do the same thing for say, a B5K? Thank you so much. Love the paint color and technique. I hope to get an airbrush in the future. Looking forward to your lettering, etc.
I would absolutely recommend trying out a C5k pot, its worth experimenting. Check out part 3 for lettering and biasing and this Friday will be the sound demo!
You stated that by using the PedalPCB 3PDT Breakout Board, this allows you to just use wires connecting the breakout board to the PCB, correct? In the wiring diagram for the Sandspur Fuzz, it shows some jumpers being used. If I am understanding you correctly, this breakout board sounds like an awesome deal, as those little jumpers can be fiddly.
It eliminates those fiddly little jumpers and makes the build a lot cleaner. Just be careful how much heat you apply to each lug because the inside of the 3pdt switches are very sensitive.
@@dkpedals Appreciate the quick reply! I've been building pedals using "all-in-one" kits from BYOC and have a few StewMac's on my up-next list, but after those are complete I plan to venture into the world of starting just with the PCB only, and sourcing my own parts. This could get dangerous! 😀
@@seangarland you are making the right progression, imo. I started with byoc kits and worked my way to buying pcbs and sourcing parts. The build documents from aion or madbean have a ton of great info about part sourcing. I tend to read them for fun and always find them informative and helpful.
Appreciate the videos. I am getting ready to build my first pedal and looking at a fuzz pedal. You say you buy your electronics from what sounds like Tata electronics. Can you send website link? Thanks man.
www.taydaelectronics.com this is a great place to get parts
What would cause an led to blow? I’ve tried multiple leds in both directions.
Check your current limiting resistor, if you have a wrong value too much current will pop a led and too little current will make your led very dim. The pedal standard for CLR is usually 4.7k
What's with the grounding of the board?
Can you be more specific?
@@dkpedals You say it at the 15:55 mark.
Okay, i forgot to run wires from the ground holes on the board to the jacks. That is essential for the pedal to work, the ground runs from circuit to the lug of the jack which makes contact with the enclosure creating a ground.
@@dkpedals My apologies, I didn't realize that's what you were talking about. I thought you were running additional ground wires for extra security. Thanks for the reply!
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Anytime!!
how to design such a pratical PCB ?
Effectslayouts.com has a great tutorial on doing just that
so for the inpout/output jacks, one of the prongs is longer than the other. does it matter which one is connected to ground vs. the audio signal? thanks!
Absolutely! There is the tip (audio signal) and sleeve (ground). They must be hooked up properly otherwise your signal will go right to ground and make no sound.
Look at a guitar cable jack, the head of it is the tip and that is what carries your signal along. The shaft of it is the ground, when I started out the best way for me to really cement it in my head was to put a cable into a jack and see how it all works.
Does that help?
@@dkpedals got it that makes sense. so my pedal passes audio in bypass, but when i turn it on it passes no audio, and just mikes a sound like a siren haha. then after a minute the led shuts off... im so confused haha
@@ryanmelvey8764 post a picture on the forum or send me an email with some good pictures and we will get you rolling!
@@dkpedals thanks man i'll join the forum!
@@dkpedalsso i didn't realize the IC orientation mattered. flipped all of them and got my first pedal working! thanks for your videos man, extremely good stuff