I’ve been kept busy during most of my free time by a lot of things, but my favorite has to be the new effects pedals I’m building. In this picture, the finished pedal (burgundy, lit LED) is the rehoused BMP from my previous post, fitted with a feed-back loop and noise gate. I then made it all pretty-like.

Tomorrow I’m going to capture a few clips of the pedal in action. This thing can generate everything from the standard BMP swarm-of-bees or bass-scraping to 8-bit-motorcycle revving. It’s a touchy little beast, with some odd settings combos leading to illogical results. For instance; the noise gate acts as normal with the feed-back loop off, quieting the pedal noise floor as its resistance is increased; but with the loop on, the gate acts as a way-around the loop, letting more clean-signal (though still colored by the BMP) through.

Anyway, it was a good experiment in pedal modding, and has given me more than a few ideas for future distortion projects. For now it’s secured a permanent spot on the pedal board.

The all-black pedal next to it is my EA Tremolo clone waiting for final wiring and lettering. I’m also about to begin work on a Green Ringer clone, which should be fun when combined with the FUZZ . .

Until then.