Just got a Boss SD-2 and found out about the secret Yellow Mode. Now I'm an electronic techo, so after a bit of thinking I thought of an easier and cheaper way off achieving all three modes without an expression pedal. Get a "Peavey Multi-Purpose 2-Button Footswitch" or any cheap copy, I'm using a Daphon DF1912 @ $25.99 AUD. But it has to have 2 switches and a TRS plug. Open the pedal up and find the two wires that are the Tip and the Ring conductors, usually red and black. Get a 47Kohm resistor and join the two points, preferably solder them. This resistor will act like the cocked expression pedal. Button 1 On: will turn on the lead mode Button 2 On: will turn on the blended Yellow mode. Button1 & 2 On: will turn on lead mode. Button1 & 2 Off: will return to green mode. The only weird issue is that Button 1 acts as a master switch, so with it actuated button 2 will not have any effect on the sound until Button 1 is turned off. So it can be done with a $26 pedal and a $0.34c resistor.
BRILLIANT!!! Sooo… while I’m not actually all that technically inclined, just looking at the set up that I was toying with made me quickly realize in my mind that there definitely had to have been an easier way to do it… Just that this was what I had, and the method for getting the third mode made sense to me. again, I did have a feeling that there might have been an easier way to do this… In fact, I had Parts set aside to attempt to make my own footswitch incorporating some of the other paths and parts… However, it looks like you found an excellent alternative… I will definitely need to give us a try. Many thanks for sharing! Cheers!
Totally! Even without the yellow mode, I’ve always really loved this pedal (I have two of them; one that I modded, which is the one in this video, and one that I left without the mod and just use an exterior footswitch). Cheers!
What is the use of the expression pedal? If it is only because of the TRS-plug, can't you just buy a trs-plug and plug that in the B-connection of the A/B-switch (and perhaps connect two rings with eachother)?
Hi! So, the expression pedal is *solely* to make that connection happen… there’s no use in this setup “as an expression pedal”. I would imagine that you are absolutely correct (because that logic is totally sound), just that I haven’t tried that yet myself (unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to myself at all, as of late!). Additionally, I’m not all too technical, and am more of an experimental tinker…er ( *chuckling* ), so… If you try your method, pretty please let me know! I’d be curious… not only would it save much-needed real estate, but would be a really cool additional mod to the pedal on the housing itself, somehow! Ideally, they would not be anything other than just the pedal… With no bonus, extra paddles connected to it! I feel like that wouldn’t even really be hard to do, but again… I just haven’t tried it myself. Thanks for this thought/comment… hope to hear back from you on this - cheers! \m/, (*o*) ,\m/
Is that an extra footswitch you’ve drilled into the top of the enclosure? Did you mod the pedal to be able to access the yellow mode without anything external?
Hey! Pardons for missing this comment! Yes, that is an extra for switch that I drilled into the top. However, for the video, it was disconnected. I used the boss FS6. That said… That extra foot switch is simply connected to a quarter inch cable that connects to the “remote” jack. So, it only switches between the red and the green modes. In order to get to the yellow mode, the A/B switch needs to be connected to the remote jack… Hence, why are used the boss FS-6. Hope that makes sense!
@@fernfernacelli It doesn’t completely make sense, but I get the basic gist which is that you need the external pedal to get to all 3 modes. I imagine that a mod is possible to get to all three with just one switch like the one drilled into yours, but it’s beyond my ability…
Just got a Boss SD-2 and found out about the secret Yellow Mode. Now I'm an electronic techo, so after a bit of thinking I thought of an easier and cheaper way off achieving all three modes without an expression pedal.
Get a "Peavey Multi-Purpose 2-Button Footswitch" or any cheap copy, I'm using a Daphon DF1912 @ $25.99 AUD. But it has to have 2 switches and a TRS plug.
Open the pedal up and find the two wires that are the Tip and the Ring conductors, usually red and black. Get a 47Kohm resistor and join the two points, preferably solder them. This resistor will act like the cocked expression pedal.
Button 1 On: will turn on the lead mode
Button 2 On: will turn on the blended Yellow mode.
Button1 & 2 On: will turn on lead mode.
Button1 & 2 Off: will return to green mode.
The only weird issue is that Button 1 acts as a master switch, so with it actuated button 2 will not have any effect on the sound until Button 1 is turned off.
So it can be done with a $26 pedal and a $0.34c resistor.
BRILLIANT!!!
Sooo… while I’m not actually all that technically inclined, just looking at the set up that I was toying with made me quickly realize in my mind that there definitely had to have been an easier way to do it… Just that this was what I had, and the method for getting the third mode made sense to me. again, I did have a feeling that there might have been an easier way to do this… In fact, I had Parts set aside to attempt to make my own footswitch incorporating some of the other paths and parts… However, it looks like you found an excellent alternative… I will definitely need to give us a try. Many thanks for sharing!
Cheers!
I am a huge Boss fan and collector, I've wanted one of these for a while now, and a "secret" mode is killer, I'll have to mess with it.
Totally! Even without the yellow mode, I’ve always really loved this pedal (I have two of them; one that I modded, which is the one in this video, and one that I left without the mod and just use an exterior footswitch). Cheers!
@fernfernacelli Just saw this video again, got an SD-2 coming in 2 days!
What is the use of the expression pedal? If it is only because of the TRS-plug, can't you just buy a trs-plug and plug that in the B-connection of the A/B-switch (and perhaps connect two rings with eachother)?
Hi! So, the expression pedal is *solely* to make that connection happen… there’s no use in this setup “as an expression pedal”. I would imagine that you are absolutely correct (because that logic is totally sound), just that I haven’t tried that yet myself (unfortunately, I haven’t had much time to myself at all, as of late!). Additionally, I’m not all too technical, and am more of an experimental tinker…er ( *chuckling* ), so…
If you try your method, pretty please let me know! I’d be curious… not only would it save much-needed real estate, but would be a really cool additional mod to the pedal on the housing itself, somehow! Ideally, they would not be anything other than just the pedal… With no bonus, extra paddles connected to it! I feel like that wouldn’t even really be hard to do, but again… I just haven’t tried it myself.
Thanks for this thought/comment… hope to hear back from you on this - cheers!
\m/, (*o*) ,\m/
Wait. Whaaaaaat???????
It's REALLY cool. If you mess with it, have a blast!
Is that an extra footswitch you’ve drilled into the top of the enclosure? Did you mod the pedal to be able to access the yellow mode without anything external?
Hey! Pardons for missing this comment! Yes, that is an extra for switch that I drilled into the top. However, for the video, it was disconnected. I used the boss FS6. That said…
That extra foot switch is simply connected to a quarter inch cable that connects to the “remote” jack. So, it only switches between the red and the green modes.
In order to get to the yellow mode, the A/B switch needs to be connected to the remote jack… Hence, why are used the boss FS-6. Hope that makes sense!
@@fernfernacelli It doesn’t completely make sense, but I get the basic gist which is that you need the external pedal to get to all 3 modes. I imagine that a mod is possible to get to all three with just one switch like the one drilled into yours, but it’s beyond my ability…
@@EarleMonroe I forgot to add… …the A/B switch *with the expression pedal connected* to be able to access the yellow mode.
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Good tip man, thanks!