Who I am.

Hello, I'm Jordy, 18 years old.
I live in The Netherlands (Haarlem) and I build/repair/mod gear.
For now, I've got the most experience with building/modding/repairing guitar pedals, but I can also do some electric guitar and small amplifier mods and repairs.
Everything I make, I will post on this blog.
If you have some questions about my hobby, or maybe have a request for building/modding/repairing a pedal/guitar/amp, just send me an email, it's always fun if someone is interested.
jordydevries1997@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/jordy.devries.731

Big Muff Rams Head - Mod

Modded my own current version of the big muff to a Ram’s Head Big Muff. It was kind of hard to find the right schematic for the big muff I have, while the Ram’s head only needed a simple google search. Because the traces of the big muff never really changed (only the values), it’s easy to mod it, just replace some of the components with a different value.
Now it has more distortion sounds, but still keeps the fuzziness, less scooped mids and it sounds more open.

Hifi webcam photo

Guitar Input Replacement - Repair

Replaced the input of the guitar from Richard Ludwig. The jack itself and the solder was loosy.

Mooen Looper Switch Replacements - Repair

Replaced the switches on a moen looper for Richard Ludwig. The switches that were inside the pedal were some cheap crappy Chinese ones, so I replaced them with switches that are made by angels in moonlight (no, just some normal good quality switches). We only ignored the 2 on the top right, because they were hard to reach, he doesn’t  use them that often and it was an on spot repair/mod.

DEAD-BABY-FUZZ - Clone

Yeah, some black comedy, a pedal that’s inside a baby doll, and when you kick the baby – yeah, you get it.
I got this idea in the train when my phone battery died.
Inside the baby is a Dead Astronaut X-Fuzz, a noisy fuzz. The LEDs are placed in the eye, pots on the nipples, jacks in the ears, adapter input above the head, the switch on the belly button and, finally, a toggle switch that you can see as a penis, or as a clitoris, because it’s a girl.
With the toggle switch you can activate some oscillation, because the baby doesn’t like to be assaulted…
The pedal sounds much darker when I sum it up. Isn’t it a great idea to make a creepy pasta with this pedal?

""This is a story of the guitarist who searched everywhere for the best guitar tone, until, he found the Dead-Baby-Fuzz. He loved the pedal, used it every gig, kicked it in on every solo. Then comes the day the baby doesn’t want to be stamp around anymore, and takes revenge! So beware when you are looking in second hand shop for pedals, it could be your last note.""

Russian Big Muff - Mod

Modded the Big Black Russian Big Muff from Bert Zaremba, now the Big Muff is true bypass and it has an adapter input while you can still use a battery.

Vox Repeat Percussion - Clone

24-05-2016
My first time making a (real) pedal in a small enclosure. This is a Vox repeat percussion, a square wave tremolo with much depth.
With the pot you can adjust the speed and with the toggle switch you can choose between different types of depth.
I've modified this pedal. Normally the speed pot goes from slow to normal, now it goes from slow to really fast.
It sounds great, small enclosure; I like it.

Super hifi photo

-update-

Later I've built one for Marijn Westerlaken.

Fender Blender - Clone

Iphone camera's makes everything ugly.

This is part 3 of “recycling enclosures.” It used to be a Box of Rock, now it’s a Fender Blender. The reviews of this pedal call it: “the fuzz pedal with Indie-cred,” so, like the crappy teenage hipster I am, I needed one.
It’s an octave up fuzz with an extra switch that kind of boosts your signal and turns the tone knob to zero. It’s weird and great.
It’s like a box full of “The Jesus And Mary Chain” fuzzy guitar sounds (even though they used a Shin Ei FuzzWah, but didn’t use the wah part of the pedal, only the fuzz....so did they use a Companion Fuzz? The schematics says no, there are more components in the fuzz segment of the FuzzWah than in a Companion. The schematic of the fuzz segment has many similarities with the Fender Blender, but the guitarnerds forums says that the Fender Blender is a bad sound pedal, then you read that they are talking about the reissue Fender did with the Blender a couple of years ago. After reading many comments on the forums you come to a conclusion that you need the original fender blender, who’s worth a fortune....so you build your own Fender Blender and ignore the forums or anyone’s opinion)

Ross/Rozz Overdrive - Repair

I replaced the jacks and the battery snap of this Ross or Rozz (maybe Ross thought in their teenage years that 2 z’s would sounds cool) overdrive from Marijn. The original jacks became, after all those years of using, feeble and noisy. But I was able to fix it with some new jacks.

ABY Switcher

Made a battery powered ABY switcher for Rudy Berezin from, my favorite band at the moment, Häxxan

Old Soviet/Russian Synth - Mod

Changing a Din plug to a 6,3mm jack. This is an old soviet synth from the late 80s from Yannick. The synth has an unusual wiring, the ground is exactly the same, but the 2 output wires needed to be switched (it’s stereo).
Also, the synth looks amazing from the inside.

Uni-Vox Compressor - Mod/Repair

Let’s make vintage pedals useful again.
This is a Uni-Vox compressor from Yannick Tinbergen.
The pedal has a really boorish design: pots on the side, no LED and it works only on battery.
I’ve replaced the pots and put them on the top of the pedal (there in the middle because the input/output are in the back). Replaced the spdt footswitch with a 3pdt, added a Led on top and an adapter input on the side.
It’s fun to see the old circuit board from this pedal, the traces look like it’s glued on.

Ross Compressor - Clone

Another ‘’enclosure recycling’’, first this was a Sepukku Space Fuzz, now it’s a Ross compressor.
Before this one, I’ve used 2 other compressors, a Dynacomp and a Boss cs-3. I didn’t like the Boss compressor at all, I liked the Dynacomp but it was too harsh. I did some research and found out that the Ross compressor sounds the same, but is less harsh.

Big Muff footswitch replacement - Repair

Replaced a footswitch from a Big muff for Yannick, same story as the EHX Micro Pog, but this time the components on the board were bigger, so it was a quick fix.

Emma Reezafratzitz - Clone

Made an Emma Reezafratzitz for Ivy van der Veer. This pedal is a 6 pot distortion, even though you can count 7 pots. With the pots you can dial the level, bias, gain, tone, bass and mid.
The 7th pot is decoration. Before it was decoration, it was a blend knob. We’ve wanted to have a blend function on the pedal, but it didn’t work in combination with the Emma. Originally the Emma Reezafratzitz has a buffer bypass, but you can wire it as a true bypass pedal. If you want a blend on a pedal, you need a true bypass pedal. Firstly, I made the Emma true bypass, but it was beeping, noisy and it oscillated quickly. When I wired it like the original it was (almost) quiet, so we decided we didn’t need a blend.
Ivy wanted a sloppy, dirty etch on the pedal, so I didn’t need to sandpaper the enclosure after etching.

Devi Ever Shoegazer - Clone

I didn't use the Supersonic fuzzgun clone at all, so I chose to recycle the enclosure and put a Devi Ever Shoegazer in it.
I built the circuit 4 months ago, but it didn't work. It took 4 passive months to search for the solution, and the solution was a simple diode.
Originally, the Shoegazer consisted of a Soda Meiser and a Torn's Peaker, I didn't like the Torn's Peaker so I used an Hyperion. Both fuzzes are easy to make and they are loud gainmonsters.

Another Small Footswitch

Made a mouth fitting channel switching footswitcher for Jack Wotton.

Teisco Guitar - Mod/Repair

First time modding/repairing someone else’s guitar. This is an old Japanese Teisco guitar from Merlijn Breedland, he got it for free from a friendly stranger.

When Merlijn got this guitar, it was totally junk. He put some fresh strings on it and adjusted the neck.

We went crazy with this guitar, we threw the tone and volume pots away, because ''he didn't need it''. The problem with most Teisco guitars, they have a small output, that doesn’t really work well onstage, so we put an active booster in it. I chose for the EHX LPB-1 because it gives more output and it’s very small so it would fit in the guitar. 

With the switch on the guitar, you can activate (and deactivate) the booster, so the battery doesn’t drain too quickly. 

I also repositioned the input. Merlijn suffers from the disability of being left-handed, so I placed the input somewhere else without drilling, so the input/guitarcable doesn't come in the way.

A Workplace

First I did everything in my bedroom, now i finally have a workplace.

Simple Footswitch

Why are all those channel-footswitches for amps always big? So I've built a small one for Richard Ludwig.

DBA Apocalypse Fuzz volume problem - Mod

Death by Audio is one of my favourite guitar fx companies, but why does everything need to be so loud? (Well, if you ever went to A place to bury strangers concert you know why)
This Apocalypse Fuzz from Yannick Tinbergen was sometimes too loud to use it as a ''normal fuzz'', so I've installed a second master/volume pot inside the fuzz, so you can always adjust the volume when the master on the pedal itself is too loud.

A Drive Box - Clone

A pedal that I've build for myself of which I'm really proud. It is a Tube Screamer (TS9), DBA Interstellar Overdrive, MXR Micro Amp combo pedal.
With the left footswitch you can activate the TS9 or IOD, and on the right you can activate the Micro Amp.
With the toggle switch in the centre you can choice between the TS9 and IOD. With the toggle switch on the right (I've added this switch later when the pedal was already done, so its kinda in a weird position) you can choose when you want to activate the Micro Amp. You can choose that the Micro Amp will go on if the left footswitch is activated (switchable booster) or by itself.
The design is just some improvisation with nail polish and an embosser. First I've wanted to etch something really cool on it, but when I realised that the pedal is already full of pots and switches, I didn't do it.

Sepukku Space Fuzz - Clone

This is my first Ferric Chloride etched enclosure (along with the Pearl/Vorg Warp, Seamoon Funkmachine and Box of Rock), and it turned out great.
This is a Sepukku Space Fuzz, it really sounds like a Uni-Vox Super Fuzz. I really like the sound of it, but I can create the same effect with my Green Ringer and Fuzzwar, so maybe I’m going to sell this one for cheap.
I've etched an astronaut-cat on the enclosure, because it is a Space Fuzz.

Pearl/Vorg Warp - Clone

A friend of mine who also builds pedals made a weird kind of wah pedal, I asked for the schematic and built one for myself. It's a Pearl/Vorg Warp Sound, you can compare the sound with a wah on fuzzy steroids.
The pedal has a level, gain and sweep/envelope pot. Martijn (that friend of mine) made an expression pedal input for the sweep pot, so you can use it like a wah pedal. I chose  a simple Oknob, so it would fit in a normal sized enclosure.
I use this pedal for ''walls of fuzz'', lots of gain/output and rocking the sweep pot.
I've etched The Terminator for this pedal, because everybody needs a cyborg

Z.Vex Box Of Rock - Clone

A Z.Vex Box Of Rock clone I've built for myself. From the web shop where I order most of my components, had two kinds of BS170 mosfet transistors (the box of rock has 4 of those) for sale, the ''normal'' and the one that Z.vex use. I've bought 4 of each to test if there was any difference in sound, I couldn’t hear any difference, so I wasted 5 euro's (they were really expensive).
I had this pedal for 2 weeks on my board, but I don’t really like the sound of the pedal on single coils (all my guitars are single coils, except one Danelectro), so I sold the pedal for cheap to Domenico Mangione.

Seamoon Funkmachine - Clone

20-02-2016
This is (for now) the last pedal in the series ''Controversial people with awesome facial hair''
I’ve put a Seamoon Funkmachine in this enclosure. The Funkmachine is, as the name states, a real Funkmachine. It really sounds like the old simple autowahs, low-fi and much ''quack''/duck noises.
We chose to etch Charles Manson on the enclosure, sadly it didn't turn out the way I wanted to, but maybe as you've read at the ''Hello Kitty Pedal'', this was my last time etching with caustic soda.

-update-
Later, I built one for The Soundlab. I'm really satisfied with the etching results; it was my first time etching with ferric chloride. Why the wheelchair? People in wheelchairs can't use a Wah-pedal, so they need an auto-wah (yeah, some inmature humour, I know).

Boss DD-7 Tap Tempo - Mod

First I had a small tap-tempo box for my Boss DD-7, but when a classmate (Valentijn Bors) showed me a picture of a DD-7 with the switch in it, I mod his and my own DD-7.
It's a really cool mod, you can tap the tempo and the switch does not hinder activating the pedal itself.

From schematic to vero

First time to transfer a schematic to vero. It's a schematic from a DBA Fuzzwar, I found on Fuzzdog. I'm doing this because I want to hear the difference between the real one and a clone, if they sound the same, I'm going to build a Fuzzwar - Green Russian Big Muff clone for myself.