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IS it hard to do mods to your effects? Like I see the stuff Robert Keely does and was thinking, is that possible to do by myself or with the help of some electronic tech from my chrcuh?
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It's not hard, but you have to know what you're doing. Keeley has modded tons of pedals, and he has seen (heard) what works and what doesn't...
http://diyguitarist.com
That guy has built 50+ stompboxes and a couple amps. He's amazing. I learned a lot from him.
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Originally Posted by Building429_Boy It's not hard, but you have to know what you're doing. Keeley has modded tons of pedals, and he has seen (heard) what works and what doesn't...
http://diyguitarist.com
That guy has built 50+ stompboxes and a couple amps. He's amazing. I learned a lot from him.
do you ever mod pedals?
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I was about to get parts for making my own Tube Screamer from scratch, but then I saw the J&H. So, the only thing I have done close to modding pedals is opening them up, looking inside, changing batteries, changing settings inside the pedal, easy stuff.
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I've done a few mods from indyguitarist.com. They were quite easy, a loto f fun, and very effective.
-Nick
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Originally Posted by Building429_Boy I was about to get parts for making my own Tube Screamer from scratch, but then I saw the J&H. So, the only thing I have done close to modding pedals is opening them up, looking inside, changing batteries, changing settings inside the pedal, easy stuff.
That's no where close to soldering.
If there's a mod that you know you want to do, practice soldering by building something first. Even if you don't build a real circuit, just get some scrap components or and old circuit board out of something that doesn't work and practice. You especially need to be good a quickly removing components without burning the surrounding circuit. This is usually much harder than installing the new part (most simple mods swap parts for similar stuff).
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To build/mod a pedal, do I have to understand what all that stuff is on the circuit board?
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Originally Posted by jbm222 That's no where close to soldering.
If there's a mod that you know you want to do, practice soldering by building something first. Even if you don't build a real circuit, just get some scrap components or and old circuit board out of something that doesn't work and practice. You especially need to be good a quickly removing components without burning the surrounding circuit. This is usually much harder than installing the new part (most simple mods swap parts for similar stuff).
I've also soldered other stuff as well and am soldering in a new p'up selector on my guitar tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by jamforchrist123 To build/mod a pedal, do I have to understand what all that stuff is on the circuit board?
No. You need to know the difference between resistors, capacitors, and diodes, but don't need to know how the work. In rare cases where circuit boards aren't labeled, you might need to know a bit more... like how to read the value codes. But unless you want to design your own mods, you don't need to know how anything works. And if you do have something in mind that someone else hasn't already done, a few us could probably help.
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i've done my own modding as well from indyguitarist.com. i bought his complete guide and it's helped a lot (with my knowledge and pedal tones).
i've modded the ds-1, MXR dist+, TR-2, and the J&H (silver version...the one that needs the modding). I can say for sure that each mod improves the quality of sound tenfold.
check out indyguitarist if you're really interested in modding pedals with existing modifications