YEAH! Made one working pedal and a fancy pedal board!

Time to rejoice kids! I have just created a "SoloPro" created by the guy at diyguitarist.com. What does it do? Well It allows me to set 2 different levels and switch between the two. I used a DPDT instead of a 3PDT and sacrificed an LED. But thats aight coz I'm prob gonna use it as a mute pedal anywaiz. Now I need for fork out money for a new enclosure. This hobby sure is expensive.

\/\/0o7@63! I just created a good as pedal board! its on a 45 degree slant and the best thing about is that its designed as a box. Basically, it's a box which is being held shut by 2 door magnets. Theres a whole on top and on the back side facing the audience where i can feed my power cables and leads and leave the slack inside, or put extra picks, batteries, strings, chord book etc. Also on the back is an attached power board so when I plug my effects in I just plug one power point. Rad as 12 man! Expect pictures and a full plan tomorrow.

Cya in the next update!
its time for Gunz!

Finished My DS-1, But its not working

Yes! Exams are finished so i can now totally commit myself to my projects but I've seemed to hit a brick wall. I have just completed a cool new mute pedal. In other words, my distortion isn't working. GRRR! and it took me ages to complete! So now I'm doing some seriously debugging. Does any of you pedal builders live near me? if so drop me an e-mail so you can help me out!

Some CS-3 mods and rehousing, refurnishing a distortion pedal

Hi all! Thanks to the guy who comment on my last entry! I will get some pictures once I recieve the fuzz pedal, which should be end of this month. I didn't know people are actually reading this! Can everyone who has read my blog please comment? Its just so that I can see that people are reading and its a little encouraging to know that people are reading this in are interested in what I'm doing.

Okay since last update til' about now I've traded my pick-ups for some parts. I actually got a crap load of resistors, pots, switches and other stuff. I also managed to pick-up a modded and semi gutted distortion pedal. All I have to do is add a switch, jacks and battery snaps which i already have. All thats needed is to find an enclosure for this baby and I have to debug the damn thing.

I'm also modding my CS-3 thanks to Cameron Sutton who provided me with the instructions.

Will post pictures soon!

I've transfered the layout for the DS-1 unto my copperboard and all thats needed is to get some etchant which i will get once exams are over! w0ot@63! smashed my 3/4 IT exam today which means I have 4 more exmas to go!

I'll keep you guys posted on whats happening. Don't expect an update until next week thursday Australia time coz I'm really busy with exams.

cheerios!!

weeee! Getting a muff fuzz!!!!!

Okay, this is quite random. On the www.diystompboxes.com forum, there was a post with this guy named tiges_tendes offering partially populated boards. He had a muff fuzz that was partially built for free and he's generously paying for shipping to Australia! Cheers mate! If this guy was near me I would buy him a beer. So I'm pretty much gonna half make this one too. The only thing left to put in this bad boy is a capacitor, battery snap footswitch and an encasing.

My components came today!

Yup! 3/4 of my stuff has arrived in the mail and i've just spent and hour and a half sorting them all out into different containers for the 2 effects. Now I'm gonna spend another half an hour double and triple checking!

I got my components from www.futurlec.com.au, my 3PDT from ebay and other stuff from jaycar

My first project/s

Hello there. My name is Timothy Bulaon aKa sasuke_kun12 and I am very glad that you are joining me on this fine hobby of mine. I only started getting into building effect pedals like 2 months ago. Here in this blog, I will be documenting every little detail and every little method on my builds. And as always I will be providing heaps of pics. Now that the introductions over let me tell you my first project

Rebote Delay 2.5 from www.tonepad.com

Yesh, my first project is the Rebote Delay from TonePad. Hopefully, I'm gonna mod it so that I can have 600ms of repeats and I can adjust the oscillation. I wanted to build this pedal because

a) I don't have enough cash to buy a boss DD-3
b) I want a decent analog delay to go with my multi-effects

My second project is the DS-1 clone from www.tonepad.com. If you don't know what the DS-1 is, use google. Its your best friend. The DS-1 is ultimately, the best distortion pedal you can get at a decent price. And why am I building it? Because I can. Yeah ya!

If you need to know:
I play G-tar and Bass with the latter being my preferred instrument, although I'm slowly making guitar my first.
I've beeen playing for 3 years
I half own a black yamaha bass and a blue sunburst Casino Stratocaster with Kent Armstrong pickups. The pick ups are installed into original fender scratch plate, knobs and switches
My effects are Zoom 3000 guitar player multi-effects, Boss Compressor/Sustainer and VOX v847 Wah
All my stuff (besides guitars and wah) I've gotten off ebay

Cya in the next post!