Onboard effects for guitar. Help me decide!

Pauleo1214

Pauleo1214

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Happy Friday to all! I don't know where to begin with this. i mentioned before I build guitars on this forum. I am building a carved top tele and I bunged the control layout. It was to be a standard two vol/two tone configuration. When drilling the hole for the vridge volume knob, I knocked the body and missed my mark. I tried to align the rest of the holes the best I could but the layout's a little squashed.

So I put some thought into how I can make the knob layout look "purposeful". For the holes highlighted in yellow, I will wireup the traditional volume and tone. For the other two, I was thinking about throwing in an onboard effect but which one(s)?

The guitar itself has a 24.75" scale length and I plan to use Goldfoil pickups for that trashy, jangly sound. i was thinking the Chickenhead might be a good, versatile circuit to have in there. What are your thoughts?

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Feedbacker type circuit (ala Beavis), very simple. A momentary arcade button running into a 2nd volume control that controls the amount of feedback so you can pre-set the feedback volume and tap, stutter-tap the feedback (stick a buffer in there if you have to, to get enough oomph to feedback straight away) ...


A crude, very crude, sustainiac.
 
Feral Feline said:
Feedbacker type circuit (ala Beavis), very simple. A momentary arcade button running into a 2nd volumupe control that controls the amount of feedback so you can pre-set the feedback volume and tap, stutter-tap the feedback (stick a buffer in there if you have to, to get enough oomph to feedback straight away) ...


A crude, very crude, sustainiac.
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I have another guitar lined up for onboard stuff this is definitely in consideration.
 
Feral Feline said:
Feedbacker type circuit (ala Beavis), very simple. A momentary arcade button running into a 2nd volume control that controls the amount of feedback so you can pre-set the feedback volume and tap, stutter-tap the feedback (stick a buffer in there if you have to, to get enough oomph to feedback straight away) ...


A crude, very crude, sustainiac.
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is there a schematic for this one somewhere?
 
Pauleo1214 said:
Thanks! Which PCB is it on the site? I'm afraid I can't find it.
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Copper Clad fuzz I think. Electra is the name of the circuit in some old electric design book or somesuch, there are no commercial pedals using that name (that I know of), but some other pedals have used that circuit. The Tchula (Dielectric Boost) is I think two Electras in a row, and I think Lovepedal has some other Electra based circuits too.
 
drgonzo1969 said:
is there a schematic for this one somewhere?
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Used to be some diagrams, but of late I haven't seen the image where it used to reside on Beavis' site, "True Bypass Loops & Feedbackers".

I saved a copy:

BEAVIS FEEDBACK LOOPER.gif


Here are some more to play around with:

Double Feedback Looper FBL-2.png

Feedback loop.gif

Feedback Loop with dual switches (momentary and onon).gif


If there's a problem with my reposting any of these images, I'll take them down. Generally, I think the credit/attribution is already in the image so I hope posting them is cool.



Then there's also a few more that may interest some:
Utter Stutter (feedback looper with a tremolo in the feedback loop);
Feed-Rite (Fuzzrite with feedback); and I'll call the last one ...
"More Soup Please" 'cause it's a Timmy with feedback loop.


PS: Beavis was an early DIY Doyen that disappeared — pulled his info from the Web — but there was enough interest in his ideas and diagrams etc convinced him to put it back online.
 
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What kind of stuff do you like to play? For onboard stuff I usually only like buffers / active tone controls but I also have a green ringer in one of my guitars that I mostly use for doom / stoner type shit. I saw an ibanez sg on reverb that had one on it too (and a one knob fuzz actually) recently and felt so understood.

I've also toyed with the idea of throwing a compressor in a guitar that I always think about keeping permanently setup for slide guitar but it doesn't have active pickups in it and I'm never routing for a battery cavity myself again lol
 
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