Do It Yourself Musician #16 - DIY Guitar Pedal Board Interface/Patch Box
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2015
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In this episode I show you how to make a guitar effects pedal board interface box. Sometimes called a patch box.
Twisting the signal cables: nice touch!
This video would have been much more helpful if, instead of belaboring the construction of the box you would have shown the proper wiring of stereo plugs in detail.
My teachers from the design school I went to would have admired your methodical approach to doing it right, rather than being sloppy about it. This is the type of nerdy crap I thought only I do (creating to size templates in illustrator, protecting the finish, checking, re-checking measurements, etc.) If something is slightly off, all I do is obsess about it and I have to do it over again.
Inspiring channel. Good job.
Awesome video. I am rebuilding my pedalboard and wanted a DIY solution to provide both I/O (front of amp as well effects loop for delays and reverbs) as well as AC power. Thanks for doing this!
Todd Brannon Good luck with your build and thank you for watching!
hi, amazing and useful video, thanks! i have a question... i have my patch bay ready to solder, but i only used mono jacks, i don't know how i should solder them, do they have any ground? or it's just one cable from input jack to output jack?
excellent videos, very detailed and understandable. i have a few questions, what dod you use as bottom plates for your boss pedals, what kind of label maker was used to label the interface and did you use the heat gun on the dual lock? thank you
*dual lock when you attached it to the risers wood surface?
+Mag Delana Thank You for watching! The bottom plates for the Boss pedals are from Small Bear Electronics. Search for them. Labeler is a Dymo and yes I used a heat gun on the Dual Lock. It sticks to wood very well.
Thank you. I really appreciate the fast reply.
I've seen guys making these as stereo boxes and they also sum from stereo to mono. Still looking for a circuit on the stereo summing. Thanks for this info!
Well you can use a series resistor network or FET summing. The series resistors are easier and require no power. The potential bogey is phase problems from some effects outputs. Have a look at this page here for some ideas www.rane.com/note109.html
DoItYourselfMusician I've read that note. I'm definitely going to try to make the passive box, but I have heard about phase problems (possibly) with stereo summing. I think I may also try this circuit as well.
www.aaroncake.net/circuits/mixer1.asp
hi, great video. at around 17:23 there is a black power outlet box that looks like a DIY. do you have a video for that ? thanks again.
Hi again, I have another question. I just watched your Boss CE2 switch replacement video and I'm hoping you can assist with two Boss pedal problems I have been having. Ok, so I have two vintage boss pedals, a DM-2 (analog delay) and a DSD-2 (digital sampler/delay) both made in japan. I have them both mounted on my pedalboard and each time I power the board up both pedals are not engaged. Thank you in advance
+Mag Delana Sorry just seeing your comment now. Yes that is probably normal behavior. Some Boss pedals will come on engaged like the DD-5 and CS-2 but the CH-1 for example does not. I've never seen a list of which pedals come on engaged and which do not. I just get in the habit of doing the same power on sequence every time. I have to set my Midi Mouse to the proper channel, turn off my DD-5, OD-1 and CS-2, turn on my Polytune 2 and set my A/B switch to mute/tune.
Thanks again.
I made the same thing many years ago and still use it. There's a lot of dead space in that box. Could be made much more compact.
mate i tried this but im getting a tone of noise with this through high gain channels. i used guitar cable to wire up and guitar style jacks instead of those trs ones. any suggestions? thanks
It could be the grounding. A key component of using the jacks I did is that all grounds are isolated from each other with that style jack. Typically you would ground the box only to the jack that was from the output of your last pedal.
Those 1/4 jacks are like $12 each. Quite a bit of money
Shop around they should be a lot less.
do you ground everything to the box or not?
I believe the advice is to just ground the box on one lead, as you don't want multiple paths to ground as that's how you get ground loops.
Is there any way you could send me the template you used in Gimp? I'm doing something similar with a rack interface, and I'd like to modify it.
Grant Reynolds Just emailed it to you Grant!
Hi, the layout of this you do have to download? thanks
How do you wire these? I can't seem to find out and I don't want to buy the connectors if I can't wire them
There are lots of options depending if you just need straight through connections or something more advanced. A nice wiring diagram for a patch box that will place your effects in your amps effects loop or patch them in front can be found here stinkfoot.se/archives/1184
Hey man, is there any chance you could email me the template? What you've done is exactly what I'm looking to do. Great video! Cheers
You can download it from website here colorfulweapon.com/resources/
You'll never have a problem running the power and the signal in your snake like that, because there's no conversion from AC to DC power. That's where the noise comes from. Power supplies need to convert AC to DC to power your pedals. That conversion is what causes the hum. Similarly, batteries are already DC so there's no conversion there either. No hum.
the link is dead
I think you need to take some time and go to inplix website to learn how to make it.