Build your own multi-function stomp box / tambourine / cajon
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- If you are a musician, you might consider making your own stompbox. They are very easy to make with whatever tools and wood you can find. Assembling the electrical parts is a snap and they only cost a few dollars. I had fun jazzing up my version with tambourine cymbals and a snare, but just a simple box works great.
What you will need is a Piezo Transducer (an electronic pickup). There are various types available in many places such as Amazon.com.
You might want to look around for a bass pickup, which will give you a much deeper sound.
And you will need a 1/4" phone jack to hook the box to an amplifier.
For a little more info on my stomp box, watch this follow-up video on my Vlog channel:
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It was so stupid...I really kept coming up with all sorts of complicated ways of dealing with the snare before that. I should never forget the value of duct tape.
Two thumbs up for duct tape, you can make a pretty decent wallet from it as well.
Hmmm... needs more cowbell...
You just have to play with it. If the snare presses too tightly against the tapa, it won't do anything. If it's too loose, it won't make a nice snappy sound.
Your son likes green day and Metallica. He's good in my book.
Cool...yes, I've seen people play cajones using all three sides.
Forstner bit. You could use a spade bit, too.
Yer your son is an awesome singer
+joe finnigan yer your funny
You probably have annotations turned off.
I want to make note that using a Piezo pick-up directly can be fairly hot. i have done this using 2-3 different sized Piezo disks. In testing with several different boxes small wooden jewellery box, plastic DIY electronics hobby box, cookie tin. pick-up was to hot and caused feedback. plus piezo pick-ups don't have much bottom/low end. I found putting them through a bass guitar preamp gives them more bottom end.
how was your testing, did you improve the pickup in any way.
Excellent video. I work at an elementary school and I would love to surprise the music teacher with a few of these. Thanks again!!
I think you have to do it from your Cafe Press account.
made me very happy when his son sang white stripes at the end
Yes, unless you are thinking of "cojones".
THAT kid has his heart into it all really great but hes gotta work on his vocals being more stable singer but hes got heart for sure cheers buddy
i can play an instrument! and i did not even know about it...lol xD
Tell your son to stop cupping the mic.
You might try looking in the description.
Any wood bits will work with MDF.
Yes, except the dowels.
You're right! I didn't realize that redundancy!
the placement of the piezo(s) and even the type and amount of glue used have quite an inpact on the sound. it's worth experimenting a bit!
the face sounds different than the sides, and the corners from the middle. the elasticity of hot glue douple sided tapes absorbs more high frequencies, than CA or epoxy, and backing the piezo with a rubber foot or some plumbers putty increases the bassy thud - the heavier the backing, the thicker. happy tinkering!
White Stripes fan. Likewise.
great job
White Stripes--so raw (kind of like early Def Leppard)--nice. Is it legal to use a forstner bit in a handheld drill? Good job making your videos fun to watch.
He doesn't say they do. He says it helps amplify the sound, which it does, by picking it up and converting it into an analogue signal to go to an amplifier.
Then is a "beat box" a box that a person sits on and thumps on it with their hands?
Have you built one of those? Is the hole supposed to be in a certain place and of a certain size? Would the pickup be any different than the bass pickup that you mentioned? Same connection, right?
Thank you:)
Excellent.. I like this fella, Good humour !
And with the left over tamborine body you could make a cigarbox type banjo guitar?
Thankyou for sharing that Steve
my friend had one of these but its an instrument in itself. you sit on it and 3 sides produce a different sound and one is the acoustic hole
I am trying! Thank you for the reply! You have inspired me to keep working in the shop while other things have not looked so good. I would like to see more instruments!!! Again, thanks
Steve, I was expecting to hear you give a rant about the WhirlyGig wars you are throwing off with Laney.... What gives.
"Suddenly the solution hit me" /oooooooooo/
You're just amazing man, keep wooding
Steve, your last few projects have been great... A Wirligig, a Door Harp and a Stompbox... All 3 of those things i want to try out, excellent work man... keep inspiring!
very nice! your how to's are always so much more concise and simple than anything else out there. I like all the white stripes at the end too lol
Tamborine and snare are awsome, but you forgot the most important one! Where are you gonna put the cowbell!
A plastic cover insted of wood might work. But break probably. I also found paintings work, whether it is the canvas or the stiff material covered with canvas. Anyway the lightest gear possible if you are busking, is desirable. Great upload thx!
this is awesome, it sounds great!
... i need to make one of these.
ROFL! I totally bought two of those clamps today! I didn't like the other ones! :P
Love this video! What tool are you using to make those kinds of specialty circular depressions for the electrical components? It looks like a drill...are they just specific bits? Cheers!
would like to see you build some wooden moving model parts like gundam's and mine's
Stevin,
I built your "other" cahone box and placed the snare parts inside but I can not seem to get the snare adjusted so you can hear it while playing it.....In this video I clearly hear hear the snare part. Any comments on how you set the snare parts?
Just one word: amazing!
Please can you tell me the sizes of the wood you used for your tambourine/jingle thing?:) thanks!
Probably not but if you like to tinker then solder some alligator clips, with some wire, to a 1/4" jack. Clip them on to the leads coming off of your pickup and experiment to see what you get.
hey i like your vidoes. im 12 and i play the drums and so i just close my high hat and use my foot for the box i actualy have a pair of recording headphones that fit in the input lole thanks alot
Maybe not go all the way through the wood with the dowels. This would leave the top of the tambourine wood free of unsightly dowels popping through. Great job as always Steve and Great entertainment Wyatt.
Tahts thing you use, carpet tape, is that carped tape with double sided glue aded on it, ant whats that spray thing, ive looking on Ebay but i dont know the exact name, sorry for lots-a-reading
i would have used bisquits just for those that were complaing about them. but then that's why you do vids and i don't. haha...another great vid. now i know what a stomp box is.
Wow, maybe I'll build an electric beer can, I can do a scarf joint or a half blind dovetail.
Those transducers are used as speakers in greeting cards, small electronics, and various other things. I scavenge most of mine but you can find them cheep on eBay or Amazon
A lot of guys will use a cigar box to make their own stomp box, but I far prefer the idea of making my own, as I can make it to my own specs for dimension and shape.
Nice Box. To attach the pick up, I think it could be better to use epoxy. The hot glue is some kind of hard rubber and could add some attenuation.......maybe.
I am talking about electronics.
Do you know difrence between analog and digital?
Pickup picks up the sound, it doesnt amplfie it. (like microphone or piezzo)
What type of wood did you use for the box itself? Looks like its laminated together, then veneered?
I'd love to see a series of videos of you building an entire guitar.
Um ya. Need more cowbell.
(Not really, just had to get that SNL reference out of my system.)
Under the video, click on 'show more'. The links will then show.
Love it.. I would love to hear the difference if the pickup was placed on the thinner percussive surface rather than the solid walls of the box. ..
1:44 whats the name of the thing attached to the drillhead? (the thing you drill the wide hole)
I just realised that should be spelled: "effin' A"
stop singing
Nicely done. I want!
It's blockboard. Certainly that's the name in the UK, may be different in US or elsewhere.
Another great video man. It is hard to tell on my phone's screen is the whole box bamboo?
Heck yeah White Stripes!!
I'm gonna build a stomp box similar to this one but what are the dimensions?
using screws is a no no.dampens the acoustics too much.but not bad work for a such short build.good job
I thought it was a rat trap, that you stamp on when a rat goes inside haha
Check out Doris express. It's a wood glue slightly stronger than tight bond, sets up twice as fast. Excellent for this kind of application.
+Dirk DIGGLER can You give a link for it please ?
Why not just stick the tambourine onto the stomp box with a dowel?
Great project, and a great jam! Thanks for the inspiration, on this Friday the 13th, going down to the workshop to tinker around... da da a da da dun da da a dun da a fa fa la la dun da da aaaa
you simply rock, man!
Good edtiing. Inspirational. Hope your son is still playing.
you're son is pretty good. he should start a youtbe channel too
Sorry for not reading before asking-found your information ;-)
was that your son? Was he also playing green day- basket case?
This...is...FREAKING RAD!!! :D
This is a really great project. The bamboo panels look quite nice for this, too. As for the biscuits, it actually would have been a great idea to use them for corner joints, because with a mitre joint, you have a weak glue surface. Basically, they're very useful for 90 degree corners, shelves (like in a bookcase), face frames, mitered corners (even door frames and picture frames if they're wide enough), etc.
I have not heard of one before this video! Thank you! :)
I figure I can get a snare at a music store but... is that the way it looks? I pictured it on the end of a "drum" stick.
Thank you for the awesomeness of a Genius! ;)
Hi! Which brand is the transducer and where can I get it?
I would have used a little silicone to glue the snare on.
what would u say is more easy to make cajon or stomp box
Woodworkers get excited with dovetails
Is that spray lacquer suitable for outdoor furniture?
Perfect for White Stripes songs as demonstrated at the end of the video 🤘
Any plans for the tambourine without the symbols? :D
Great video. The tape might fall off, especially if it gets hot. I always use velcro for that sort of thing
Cool stomp box, actually, I have another idea for more uses of this stomp box, you can use it to reach to high cabinets as a "stepping" box also you can sit down on it to play with toddlers. You can give it to your toddler to reach the sink in the bathroom.
Write the words on it: A STEP TO BE TALL, SIT DOWN TO BE SMALL.
And no disrespect to your creation, just multiple use, heh...
Hi Steve,
I have some extra guitar pickups, you think one of those would work as the pickup?
No, most electric guitar pickups rely on induction coils which generate current when the metal string vibrates back and forth over a magnet. You will definitely want to use a piezo-electric transducer which generates electric current when there is a change in pressure (like sound vibrations) against the pickup.
Excellent camera work (and subject matter too)...
Of course I do...
nice! Does the pickup pick up vibrations from the air, or the wood that it is attached to? Would it make a difference if you glued it to the thinner top or bottom?
I think the jingly things are called conches, that might help someone find them.
Wyatt is a lot better than I will ever be, that's for sure. Keep on playing!!
Just one more thing you could have done that would have been very helpful, that is, post the stomp box to me!
Subscribed. Your video was fun, and informative! Thank you so very much for this great instructional!
Andrew did you cut you fingor OFF or just cut it
Nice video on something I will never make. LOL.
Uncle Red would be proud of you're duct tape :)
Super explanation. Thanks!
What are the dimensions of the box?
thumbs up for the white stripes at the end :)
Thanks! I built a stomp box from an old cigar box, but yours is much more functional and has a better acoustic sound....mine really needs to be plugged in.