Posts tonen met het label Booster. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label Booster. Alle posts tonen

maandag 2 mei 2016

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.

zaterdag 16 april 2016

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.

zondag 10 januari 2016

EQD Speaker Cranker - Clone

This is the first pedal that I've build; it's a Speaker Cranker from Earthquaker Devices. It can be used as a gain booster, it doesn’t really increase output/volume like a LPB-1 or Micro-Amp, but I think it would by great to use this in front of a distorted (metal) amp.
I've put the effect in an old LPB-1 enclosure, sadly my LPB-1 had some issues, and so I threw the PCB from the LPB-1 away and put the Speaker Cranker in the enclosure.