What happens when you run out of pedals to build?

thewintersoldier said:
Pedals are fiscally safe and responsible, but amps...I don't know that my marriage or retirement funds could survive that rabbit hole. Besides, I'd end up with a bunch of amps I don't play just like pedals. I prefer prescription drugs. Cheap, plentiful and legal.
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I can hardly play my guitar but that hasn't stopped me from repeatedly viewing the Mojotone 5E3 kit. I've gone through the build docs on that thing multiple times. I'm just waiting for the late Saturday night after that extra glass of wine slip of the finger $900 "mistake." :ROFLMAO:
 
thewintersoldier said:
Pedals are fiscally safe and responsible, but amps...I don't know that my marriage or retirement funds could survive that rabbit hole. Besides, I'd end up with a bunch of amps I don't play just like pedals. I prefer prescription drugs. Cheap, plentiful and legal.
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Bruh, you got retirement funds? Lucky...

I mean...building an amp ain't that expensive if ya go superman DIY.

Yes...break into a sheet metal shop late at night, fab your own chassis.

Steal wire from abandoned buildings. Enamel that shit. Wind your own transformers.

Kill a mesa/boogie employee. Take their credentials. Grab tubes in a bindle and run like hell.

Theres always a way to shave a little off manufacturing costs.
 
You guys are the best (worst?) kind of enablers. Seriously, thank you. I was in a funk. Now I'm back to feeling like I can conquer the world.

I swear this wasn't a troll post, I was about to order yet another MIAB PCB and thought, do I really need a 3rd Marshall variation?

Truthfully, Flangers all sound the same to me. Although, I haven't tried the Lovetone. It's questionable if that's even a flanger¿ Phasers seem pretty samey too.

I will try everything in this thread, including amp building, circuit design, modding cheap power supplies, building for sales, alcoholism, murdering a Mesa/Boogie employee, and snorting silica gel.

Thanks for all the recommendations of pedals to investigate, phi1 for suggesting the harmonic tremolo, carlin for the rainbow machine, and stickman for fv-1. Although I have to get over my 90's prejudice against digital effects. And Mentaltoss for sending me down a 2-hour YouTube rabbit hole. 🐇

DAJE said:
I see no tremolo in your list. Also, I have a few bass-oriented pedals on the way. And also this because who wouldn't want a dedicated octave pedal to stack with, you know, every other kind of pedal?
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I didn't fully come clean. I built a Woodpecker tremolo. I liked it so much, I sold my Voodoo Labs trem.
Then, I liked it so much again, that I built a 2nd Woodpecker, just in case the first one breaks? I dunno. Maybe I've lost my f**king mind.

Stickman393 said:
Or...I mean...you can just play your guitar.
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The electric guitar is merely a diagnostic tool for troubleshooting pedals.
Seriously though, I'm taking Chord Studies: Rock and Pop Progressions vol. 1 at Truefire.com right now. I've been playing the same riffs for 20 years. Time to learn some new shit.

jeffwhitfield said:
How about writing some music? Take three different pedals, put them in a chain, and get inspired. 👍😁
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This is what I should be doing. I fear that I'm sublimating my desire to make music into adjacent, related hobbies. It's probably fear of failure. Or fear of success. Or fear of hearing my own recorded voice. Or laziness. Or a combination of all of the above.
 
xefned said:
This is what I should be doing. I fear that I'm sublimating my desire to make music into adjacent, related hobbies. It's probably fear of failure. Or fear of success. Or fear of hearing my own recorded voice. Or laziness. Or a combination of all of the above.
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I’ve written a ton of riffs while building a bunch of pedals. Time to put them together into some songs. 😁
 
Dan M said:
I thought I was done (yeah, right) but now I’m obsessed with wahs and filters.
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We should exchange notes sometime. I've built 5 different autowahs with more on the way. 🙃
(VFE MiniMu, Meatsphere, DOD440, DOD FX25, & Agent 00Funk.)

jeffwhitfield said:
I’ve written a ton of riffs while building a bunch of pedals. Time to put them together into some songs. 😁
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I love all my pedals more now that I've started actually chaining them together. I was intrigued by the Parenthesis until I realized I could probably just chain an Octave to a Rat to and Overdrive and accomplish pretty much the same thing. :)

Chuck D. Bones said:
Do you own a breadboard?
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No, but it's next on my list of things to get. There's simply no excuse at this point.
This place has been super inspiring, especially your circuit mods.
 
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