Brian Wampler builds/mods a PedalPCB Board

HamishR said:
Please don't turn this wonderful forum into all the others!
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Im not sure why someone would need say everyone who disagrees with then eats crayons, which im assuming he is thinking is witty way of calling us morons. I dont understand a few people around here that just decide to be jerks. Im assuming be got bullied on the schoolyard so the internet is his place to do unto others.
 
Shit, I've been doing all wrong. I have Crayola brand markers in my cupboards. Frankly I didn't get the appeal and the staining on my tongue and lips was getting problematic.

I've got a Crayola 64 box on order now.

Does anyone have a preferred color?
 
manfesto said:
HA.

Broken mini DC Jack in the kit.

Been there.

Been. There.
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Still, what a coincidence that the guy who sells pedals, when he shows a do-it-yourself kit, the kit comes with flaws that are difficult to detect for beginners.
How convinient for his bussiness, right?
 
CR0SSBL4DE said:
Still, what a coincidence that the guy who sells pedals, when he shows a do-it-yourself kit, the kit comes with flaws that are difficult to detect for beginners.
How convinient for his bussiness, right?
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Ehh I haven't watched the video but I've had a bunch of shitty mini DC jacks myself and Wampler seems like a stand up guy. Not everything is a conspiracy.
 
I get why someone might feel that way when everything JHS puts on YouTube is an infomercial of one stripe or another but Wampler's been contributing to the DIY community in a real and meaningful way since the very start under the handle 'indyguitarist'

I don't see a lot of books about how to do it being written by any of the other major pedal builders to come out of the very same DIY scene ... and that's not counting any of the stuff he's doing now with the video series

also the knockoff lumberg jacks are trash and everyone knows it ... come on, now.
 
To me, the video takeaway seems to be:

If you don't want to buy my pedales and makenyour own, then buy my course to know how to do it (even if you don't buy my pedals I still get payed), or try to do it on your own (without me getting payed) have issues you don't know how to fix and get your fingers burned.

I may be being to harsh, but still, sound about it to me
 
CR0SSBL4DE said:
To me, the video takeaway seems to be:

If you don't want to buy my pedales and makenyour own, then buy my course to know how to do it (even if you don't buy my pedals I still get payed), or try to do it on your own (without me getting payed) have issues you don't know how to fix and get your fingers burned.

I may be being to harsh, but still, sound about it to me
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...that does sound pretty accurate though. I've definitely had issues I don't know how to fix, and I think I've at least almost burned something (it hurt but didn't cause burn damage).
 
CR0SSBL4DE said:
To me, the video takeaway seems to be:

If you don't want to buy my pedales and makenyour own, then buy my course to know how to do it (even if you don't buy my pedals I still get payed), or try to do it on your own (without me getting payed) have issues you don't know how to fix and get your fingers burned.

I may be being to harsh, but still, sound about it to me
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Eh, cynical take but you do you. He pointed out the issue, showed how he troubleshot it, and showed how to fix it; you're bending over pretty far backwards to try and make him a bad guy when, unlike his peers in the industry, he's got a long history of *actually* being DIY friendly (he's been doing circuit-explanation videos on his channel since long before he started offering his DIY course. Oh, and also, he *literally* wrote the book on pedal modding). In this video, he even plugged PedalPCB as a PCB vendor who sells boards based on *his* own circuits.

In my own personal experience with those POS knockoff Lumbergs I've had enough failures - out of the box, after the smallest amount of rework, and/or within days or weeks of install - that I 110% buy that he got a bum one in a kit. I'd have been more surprised if he got a working jack, lol
 
I think you are being harsh @CR0SSBL4DE.

If you can't troubleshoot a pedal then you're going to eventually have a hard time. The fact that he encountered an issue, and showed how he debugged it was a positive. If everything had gone smoothly, it would've been a disservice to beginners.

As @ICTRock pointed out, Brian has given a lot to the diy community.

Here's a video where Brian reviews another brand's pedal, without pitching any of his own.

 
ICTRock said:
I get why someone might feel that way when everything JHS puts on YouTube is an infomercial of one stripe or another but Wampler's been contributing to the DIY community in a real and meaningful way since the very start under the handle 'indyguitarist'

I don't see a lot of books about how to do it being written by any of the other major pedal builders to come out of the very same DIY scene ... and that's not counting any of the stuff he's doing now with the video series

also the knockoff lumberg jacks are trash and everyone knows it ... come on, now.
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I’ve seen quite a few times where he gave advice to DIY’ers… even with clones of his pedals… he didn’t seem to care as long as the person wasn’t trying to pass it off as a real Wampler etc.

In fact about a year or so back in another group I was asking about which MIAB circuit folks liked the most into truly clean amps, and Brian Wampler was one of the first folks to jump in and recommend the Plexi Drive, but if I didn’t want invest that much just to try it, that I could find the board and parts list on PPCB!

He’s still a businessman (he still needs to put food on his table), but never forgot his roots as a member of the DIY community.
 
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