Wow, this is right on time. I have been working on an integrated effects board with a built in looper and power supply's. It will incorporate my
homeade pedals, (serendipity, zombii, egodriver, sunking, zygote, macheen, fat&pretty(optocomp), Matchless hotbox, & maybe a Craig
Anderton tube fuzz (but it needs +- 9v. power. It also has 3 effects that I've removed from their rack enclosures or floor boxes and put under
the 18" x 24" top plate along with the other pedals: a Chandler tube drive, a Roland CE-300 (the rack version of the CE-1) and an old
SAD4096 delay (until I finish building the much better one that I have the art and major parts for). Everything will be driven by a buffer and I
like Anderton's design because it is a splitter too, so I could say, send a totally clean signal straight to a mixing board. I'll also probably build
in several points where I can take a separate line out and an ABY since I often gig with two amps.
Also along the top behind the main board there is room for the three commercial pedals I don't want to remove from their enclosures but which
I'll incorporate into the looper: a 1980 ADA flanger, an early (white, non-pedal) Fuller Dejavibe, and a 1998 Fulldrive. They just fit across the
top and will be bolted down firmly.
Everything goes through the looper so the homeade effects are housed in cheap electrical contracters boxes ($1-$2) and don't require stomp
switches, jacks, etc. since those are all part of the looper. The boards are relatively small so I can easily fit 2 or three to a box.
I guess it seems like I have a lot of overdrive pedals but I've been gigging for 25 years and one things I've learned is 1) you can't have too
many overdrive/fistortion/fuzz pedals 2) diferent pedals sound good or bad with different amps/guitars. For instance, the Fulldrive sounds
great with my Deluxe Reverb but not as good with my JCM800 while the Chandler tube driver is just the opposite - just kills through a
Marshall but is just buzz through Fenders.
Right now I am sorting out my power supply problems. I have a +-15V. supply for the opto-comp, two more boards to supply bipolar power
to anything, like Anderton designs (I have etching art for his splitter/buffer that uses a 5532 instead of the weird 14 pin opamp he used on
everything which can no longer be found). For the remaining +9 boards I think I'd like to use a design like in this thread - I'll put 8 of the
boards together and use them with the Weber 8 out Xformer I ordered. I'll have to double up a few outputs but since they are 300MA. there
won't be a problem, I built the slant enclosure for the pedals/looper with a 7" wide ledge at the rear to build the power supply's on and it can be
sheilded easily.
My main problem is doing the computer work to make the etching art. I can't even paste eight of them together to make one board in my
drawing program, Gimp!
My name is Kiira BTW and I kinda started learning things backward. I was tired of lugging my 100 Watt heads to the shop to get repairs done
so I got the idea to try and learn how to repair them myself. Gradually (ESP. after the WWW came along and all these really great people
started teaching me stuff) I learned how to build my own amps from schematics, do mods, build tube studio gear, and even do some designing.
Now I've gotten around to learning how to build my own pedals. I've done the opto-comp (etched the board) and the first 3 boards I got from
Madbean. a zombii, egodriver and poindexter. I purchased 3 more discontinued boards from one of the members here, a sunking, zygote and
Macheen. This forum seems to be the best around.
uglogirl
PS - Weber sells a kit with the multi-tapped output Xformer and four rectifier boards for $30 and you can order additional boards - 4 more
would be $20. Seems like a good deal to me.
homeade pedals, (serendipity, zombii, egodriver, sunking, zygote, macheen, fat&pretty(optocomp), Matchless hotbox, & maybe a Craig
Anderton tube fuzz (but it needs +- 9v. power. It also has 3 effects that I've removed from their rack enclosures or floor boxes and put under
the 18" x 24" top plate along with the other pedals: a Chandler tube drive, a Roland CE-300 (the rack version of the CE-1) and an old
SAD4096 delay (until I finish building the much better one that I have the art and major parts for). Everything will be driven by a buffer and I
like Anderton's design because it is a splitter too, so I could say, send a totally clean signal straight to a mixing board. I'll also probably build
in several points where I can take a separate line out and an ABY since I often gig with two amps.
Also along the top behind the main board there is room for the three commercial pedals I don't want to remove from their enclosures but which
I'll incorporate into the looper: a 1980 ADA flanger, an early (white, non-pedal) Fuller Dejavibe, and a 1998 Fulldrive. They just fit across the
top and will be bolted down firmly.
Everything goes through the looper so the homeade effects are housed in cheap electrical contracters boxes ($1-$2) and don't require stomp
switches, jacks, etc. since those are all part of the looper. The boards are relatively small so I can easily fit 2 or three to a box.
I guess it seems like I have a lot of overdrive pedals but I've been gigging for 25 years and one things I've learned is 1) you can't have too
many overdrive/fistortion/fuzz pedals 2) diferent pedals sound good or bad with different amps/guitars. For instance, the Fulldrive sounds
great with my Deluxe Reverb but not as good with my JCM800 while the Chandler tube driver is just the opposite - just kills through a
Marshall but is just buzz through Fenders.
Right now I am sorting out my power supply problems. I have a +-15V. supply for the opto-comp, two more boards to supply bipolar power
to anything, like Anderton designs (I have etching art for his splitter/buffer that uses a 5532 instead of the weird 14 pin opamp he used on
everything which can no longer be found). For the remaining +9 boards I think I'd like to use a design like in this thread - I'll put 8 of the
boards together and use them with the Weber 8 out Xformer I ordered. I'll have to double up a few outputs but since they are 300MA. there
won't be a problem, I built the slant enclosure for the pedals/looper with a 7" wide ledge at the rear to build the power supply's on and it can be
sheilded easily.
My main problem is doing the computer work to make the etching art. I can't even paste eight of them together to make one board in my
drawing program, Gimp!
My name is Kiira BTW and I kinda started learning things backward. I was tired of lugging my 100 Watt heads to the shop to get repairs done
so I got the idea to try and learn how to repair them myself. Gradually (ESP. after the WWW came along and all these really great people
started teaching me stuff) I learned how to build my own amps from schematics, do mods, build tube studio gear, and even do some designing.
Now I've gotten around to learning how to build my own pedals. I've done the opto-comp (etched the board) and the first 3 boards I got from
Madbean. a zombii, egodriver and poindexter. I purchased 3 more discontinued boards from one of the members here, a sunking, zygote and
Macheen. This forum seems to be the best around.
uglogirl
PS - Weber sells a kit with the multi-tapped output Xformer and four rectifier boards for $30 and you can order additional boards - 4 more
would be $20. Seems like a good deal to me.