Deluxe Reverb Footswitch w/Tuner

[falco_femoralis]

At home I have a dual tier 20" x 8" pedalboard but when I play out I like to bring a much smaller 14" x 5" board and bring just the basics - a couple overdrive pedals, and I use my amp's built in effects - reverb and tremolo. It's a Fender amp and it has one of these



which is a super annoying size and hangs off the edge of my board and gets in the way of everything. I've been wanting to remake it in a normal enclosure and today I finally got around to it, but with a twist - I also built my tuner into it.

I have a Rockstock mini tuner, which is about 2" square. I took off the bottom and got a look at it

It's packed in there and uses like 30 gauge wire. So I started blasting

Here's a look at the relay switching board. The rest of the board is under the display, on the top

I'm lengthening some of the wire here and reinforcing it with hot glue

I spent so much time trying to get this thing back together after taking it apart to see how it worked. The way the switch actuates requires at least one of the jacks in place to lock the thing together

Here I have it mounted in the enclosure and I'm beginning to put it together. This was one of those builds where everything is mega tight and there is a specific order of assembly which I had to work out

I'm setting up the LED for the reverb here

The right (left?) side of the switch is done. I had to mount the feetsweetch super low so they wouldn't be in the way of the tuner switch, which meant I had to trim the lugs so they would clear the back cover

It's finally coming together. The jacks on the left side as we are looking at it in the pic are the in/out for the tuner, and the jack on the right is for the amp effects. I have to make up a stereo cable with a right angle fitting for that one. After this I made up the other LED and put a massive blob of hot glue on the back of the tuner to sandwich it against the back cover. I also gooped the switches for good measure

And here we are! Blue is reverb and red is tremolo. It's easier to actuate the tuner switch than I thought. I was afraid the other switches would be in the way.

I may make another at some point. There was room to put all the jacks on the sides, but I tried it this way first. I would have liked to use a bicolor LED, but there wasn't room for a jewel and I don't have any other LED bezels. I used a huge step bit to drill the hole for the tuner and it was a trip - I had to go real slow for the last couple steps. I would love to make one of these out of a Polytune Mini but they're all sold out everywhere.

 

[Feral Feline]

Right on!

Mine's called a Swiff, but same thing.

I was trying to rehouse mine with a boost, but you've shown me the light, ie LEAVE IT IN ITS OWN ENCLOSURE, and stick it with its enclosure in my boost's enclosure. So simple, it's brilliant. Why didn't I think of that? I guess I'm not as bright as brilliance...

I think I need to pick up a few more of these Swiffs, RockStocks, whatever they're called...

 

[falco_femoralis]

The switch relies on the casing to function. I had the same idea as you at first and I took the whole thing apart before I realized there is a spring that pushes up on the "switch" and it requires the inner casing to be in place and held in with at least one of the jacks. It was a big pain getting it back together.

it fits pretty snugly in a 1590b. I put a few small dabs of hot glue on the top corners where the square housing sits against the top of the enclosure and then a big blob on the bottom of the housing to sandwich it against the pedal's backing plate. The glue doesn't stick but it does conform to the small gap between the two enclosures and provide a stable mating surface. You could make up some kind of spacer to use it in a deeper enclosure.

I'm kinda bummed bc I had a plan to incorporate a Julia with my amp's reverb/trem controls, in a makeup like a Jam pedals Ripply Fall, but now this pedal makes that idea redundant :/