Build Your Own Effects with New Book

October 27, 2005

Over the past year or so, Brian Wampler of Indyguitarist.com and Guitartone.net has been compiling and writing a new book - "How to Build Your own Effect Pedals...a step by step guide". After searching for a book to recommend to his customers and not finding one, he decided that he would just write one.

This is a hard copy book, with detailed full-sized pictures and 92 pages of instructions. This book will hold you by the hand and show you 'the ropes'. The book also covers performing advanced modifications to existing pedals.

Some of the topics discussed are:

Introduction
Tools and Items needed
The Basics explained
Let's get started
Basic Definitions and Concepts
Understanding Schematics
How To Solder/desolder
All about Components
Component chart
Breadboards
Catalog Part Numbers
Installing pots and switches

Projects covered include:

A/B/Y box
Feedback Looper
True Bypass Box
Using a breadboard to build circuits quickly
Basic 386 clean boost
Advanced clean boost
Smooth overdrive
Aggressive Distortion
Sputtery, nasty fuzz

Advanced Modifications:

Turn a tubescreamer into a distortion
Tubescreamer modification - new tone circuit
Add a tone/eq circuit to MXR Distortion Plus / DOD OD250 Overdrive

Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz Advanced modifications including:

Adding a tone/EQ control circuit
Adding a totally new circuit to create a milky smooth fuzz or jagged and rough fuzz/distortion

The book also covers applying these types of advanced modifications to other pedals and troubleshooting.

How to build your own Effect Pedals is available direct from Indyguitarist for $49.95 plus $5.50 shipping anywhere in the world.

For more information, visit their web site at http://www.indyguitarist.com/.

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