What happens when you run out of pedals to build?

[xefned]

I love building pedals, but I'm running out of things that interest me and I find that disturbing.

When you've already built 4 overdrives, 6 fuzzes, a chorus, a flanger, a phaser, a couple of compressors, what's left to try?? Help!!

 

[BuddytheReow]

Have you considered designing your own circuit? The test kitchen has a lot of good resources to push you in the right direction

 

[Barry]

Only 4 Overdrives?

 

[carlinb17]

Is this a real question?

 

[carlinb17]

Delay? Pre-amp? An actual amp? Rainbow machine? Reverb?

 

[phi1]

Probably should say good for you! But instead I’ll suggest in addition to what others have said. harmonic tremolo is nice. Fv-1 stuff is fun. Never a shortage of overdrive flavors to try.

Also, if you know any other guitar folks building for others can be fun and open up new creative directions. You can certainly have them reimburse your parts and maybe even pay a small fee if it’s suits both parties, but anyway you get to try new stuff and see it get put to good use.

 

[DAJE]

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?

 

[fig]

Simple. You start building amps. More amps means more pedals...You'll get the swing of it after awhile.

 

[Username123]

Spend time practicing and invest the money you would build pedals with into a good amp. It doesn't have to be the nicest most expensive tube amps. If you like building pedals, you might like building a tube amp kit which is very rewarding, especially because some of those circuits are impossible to buy new unless you got like 2000 dollars. Like a fender 5e3 deluxe. Plus it will likely will be cheaper than a new reissue if there is one, and it will last much longer. Fender now uses cheap caps and not always reliable pcbs, so if you want something for the long haul a kit could be a great option. Plus since you wired the circuit, you can easily change out caps. Just make sure you learn the proper safety precautions though.

 

[Username123]

By the way, check out psionic audio on YouTube. Plenty of modern amp horror stories.

 

[Username123]

By the way @jjjimi84 has a good post on good tube amps kits.

I can speak quite a bit about the subject, my first amp kit was way back in 2009 from Metro Amps and was a JTM 45, since then I have done an Allen Accomplice, JMP 50 using the metro guide and parts from Valvestorm, a Trinity Amps 18 watt SIII and I just finished a Trinity Amps Tweed Deluxe and filmed the whole thing and am editing the videos right now.

Depending on your knowledge of how amps work is how you should look at buying a kit, I feel like the kits I have built were all very detailed and lead to a successful build. I know the mojotone and weber kits are a little less detailed, they are pretty much a schematic and layout which is still super helpful.

I would look at Trinity amps, I absolutely love what you get for the price and the service and instructions are outstanding. They have a number of good kits from Marshall style to vox to tweed fenders.

If you are looking blackface fenders then Allen Amps is the place to go.

I feel like sourcing your own parts for any beginner is a pain in the ass, that is why I love buying a kit. SAves me a ton of money paying shipping costs to 5 different places and you have a transformer designed for the amp you are looking for.

 

[Stickman393]

Man...that list is like...

Only one flanger, huh? One chorus? One phaser?

Hell, fuzz alone has a whole realm of weird shit that gets super synth-y. Envelope filters, ring mods, "bit crushers", not to mention the slew of cool fv-1 based FX.

I made a few pedals, then I decided that I wanted to challenge myself. Microcontrollers, tube builds, stuff with oddball, weird components. Lots of offboard wiring.

Hell, try something in a wah shell.

Build an amp. Dig into electrical theory. Learn, learn, learn. Get into decorating your own enclosures. Powder coating, CNC, etching.

Or...I mean...you can just play your guitar.

 

[gheorge77]

By the way @jjjimi84 has a good post on good tube amps kits.

This has been where I went back in late 2018 or so. I got bored after building pedals for about 3 years and moved to amps. 3 years later I've built the following:

BYOC Classic Brit 50
Hoffman Ab763 vibroverb
Matamp GT120 from scratch
Boothill 5E3
Rebuild of the Brit 50 after discovering it was not a real 1987 clone
Boothill 5F1
Rebuild of the 5E3 with a Mojotone fiberboard
Mojotone 18 Watt Tmb modded after Trinity and other build corrections

I'd recommend the Boothill 5F1 to start but source your own components. Definitely a nice easy and awesome amp to start with. Valvestorm has all of the parts you would need for most Marshall builds and have the original build instructions for Metropolous versions of each.

Just recently got back into pedals after running out of amps I wanted to build.

Also NOS tubes are a dangerous rabbit hole to go down once you start building your own amps. I now have NOS preamp and power tubes in everything after collecting for some time.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Ocelot, Daydream, Roboto, VIIB, Electro Vibe, Hydra, double tracker, low tide. All amazing. Pretty much everything at parasit studios but my favorites are the arcadiator, sonic reducer, and 8bitar. You should probably poke around at dead end fx too. I very much enjoy my floop, fuglyface and have high hopes for a ring stringer that's waiting for some trouble shooting attention.

I also talk up the Crowther prunes and custard a lot which can be found at fuzzdog or dead end.

 

[jimilee]

If you run out of stuff to build, you’re just not trying hard enough.

 

[vigilante398]

You can do what I did and start modding cheap power supplies

Or what I actually did, keep building the same things over and over improving your process and build quality to the point where you can start selling them.

 

[EGRENIER]

"What happens when you run out of pedals to build?"

I just start drinking, then usually 3 or 4 weeks later I receive 4 new PCBs that I bought while drunk and forget I did... Problem solved !

 

[spi]

good troll post

 

[Paradox916]

I keep trying meth but it’s just not ruining my life like I hoped it would….

 

[Robert]

I keep trying meth but it’s just not ruining my life like I hoped it would….

Dude, for the last time.... that isn't meth, I just put it in there to keep your order dry.

On the bright side, you probably wont have a runny nose for weeks.