Want to make your own pedals?

jimi_t

The simplest, most fullproof yet all-encompassing kit I have ever seen has just been released, and at a decent price ($249) It looks very tasty, well thought out and very intuitive. A decent balance between the need to make music and expressing the inner geek.

Beavis Audio are now selling the Beavis Board, an effects pedal developers kit for no-mark electronic beginners and experienced tweakers looking for an all-in-one prototyping solution. The whole kit costs $249, including a breadboard/psu/switch combo, a decent multimeter, a manual and a huge stash of parts. It's designed to solve three familiar problems: "Problem 1: Learning Soldering Sucks! Problem 2: Breadboards can be a hassle! Problem 3: Parts Sourcing Blows!... Frustrated Newbie? I guarantee that you will be successful with the beavis board, even if you been frustrated by building in the past.".

http://www.beavisaudio.com/bboard/index.htm

(from musicthing.blogspot.com)

Dord

That's pretty cool. Don't have that sorta money to blow but it's cool all the same.

mr_fruitbowl

That's pretty cool for testing out different sounds and stuff....but i'd still rather solder the parts together:D

jimi_t

mr_fruitbowl wrote: »

That's pretty cool for testing out different sounds and stuff....but i'd still rather solder the parts together:D

See the thing is, a well as being a beginners mecca, it also grows with you - offering a very quick and clean way of prototyping various effects, A/B'ing germanium resistors and old, inefficient but more 'musical' capacitors and parts with their modern day counterparts. As for it being expensive, 180-odd euro is very very reasonable for what you get, you'd easily spend that on a hald-decent BBD based delay. Hell, a Keeley modded DS-1 is well north of 100 these days.

red_ice

tbh, that's a really good kit. I've started doing this sort of thing and im a bit turned off by dissolving metal to create a circuit board. Then again, i was put off by not having a circuit board to make the schematics with. I reckon this is what i need to help get my head around some of the problems im facing making these pedals.

With this, you can just use the parts (which tbh cost buttons) and see the layouts with how it should be done on that circuit board. Then just get more and more boards and replicate it. You will eventually learn how to read the plans and use other ones, then make what ever plans you come across...

I've been working off of tonepad.com. Hard HARD stuff in that tbh, especially the boss schematics!

I might invest in this.

DeadSkin

That's pretty cool and very interesting, nice find jimi_t. You gonna make the purchase and tell us more about it?