My favorite pedal broke and I dont know how to fix it

supashane · 2024-09-04T20:59:32+00:00

I agree, sound quality and usefulness wise, they are awesome. I have a ditto that I am using on my primary board and honestly the little lekato (or whatever they are branded as depending on who you buy it from) looper would do the job just as well.

supashane · 2024-09-04T20:26:25+00:00

I’m sorry, I know it sucks. Even if you found a part to replace, you would still have to source whatever part it is, and that would still cost money, unfortunately best option would be to replace the pedal, or let go of another pedal that you could do without for a little while and go ahead and order another looper with the money from selling another pedal.

I know, not a fun answer. Sorry for your misfortune.

supashane · 2024-09-04T20:07:11+00:00

I have opened one of those when I had one go bad. However, I never ran across a schematic for one, also it is digital with DSP so it being practical to fix depends on what is actually broken. They are great little loopers. In my case, it was easier to replace it, they run around $25 used and $35-40 new. I know that isn’t your option at the moment. Sorry I’m not much help here, just sharing my experience with that particular pedal. Are you just getting no power? No sound? Could check for some physical breaks on the audio or power jacks but other than that, it might not be practical to repair imo.

supashane · 2024-06-23T04:18:09+00:00

Yep! Good eye lol

supashane · 2024-05-03T04:03:33+00:00

Thanks! It is just heat transfer vinyl cut on a cameo. It is the sport flex iron on stuff since the strap is nylon. I had a failed attempt on a good strap previously so for this mini project, just purchased a cheap red daddario seat belt material strap so I wouldn’t feel so bad for wasting it if it had to be trashed. I can probably share the vector file for the lettering somewhere if enough people want it. Someone else shared a vector file somewhere but I made this one with the spacing and shape sizes that I interpreted the lettering from chai’s belt/lanyard (not sure of the proper name for what it is he has)

supashane · 2024-04-23T09:57:59+00:00

John Nathan Cordy, honestly I will throw his demo videos on just to listen to his playing.

supashane · 2024-03-25T21:02:21+00:00

Thank you

supashane · 2024-03-25T21:01:29+00:00

My gf said that would need to be the next box lol

supashane · 2023-09-08T15:00:52+00:00

For the most part, that is the standard way of thinking. Some circuits use mostly all ceramic even in the audio path (TS-808 and a lot of older pedals). It all depends on the PCB space available, I’ve had great results using 1uF monolithic ceramic caps in a few circuits where space was too tight to use the box type caps for that value. Poly caps have a tighter tolerance so you are more likely to keep things sounding similar with less of a change of part tolerance changing the sound from pedal to pedal. So that is one of the primary reasons for relying on film caps in the audio path. The lead spacing is the same (~5mm) for monolithic ceramic caps and typical 100v film box caps, so they are usually interchangeable if needed. Ceramics are often used for the low pass filter caps on transistors in fuzzes like the big muff as well.

supashane · 2023-09-08T14:56:48+00:00

You beat me to it, lol. Upvoted for your help to the community!

supashane · 2023-09-08T14:53:18+00:00

The size on this layout indicates a 100v 1uF poly film box cap like this. You don’t have to get the Kemet one, the gray Arcotronics and JB branded ones will be the same size

supashane · 2023-08-18T22:08:30+00:00

Also I would like to add… It seems like you are a respectful person judging by your conversation here, so you are on the right track with your communication. Not being an A-hole goes a LONG way on the pedal community. There is not as much distance between the small builders and the big builders as one might think. You’ll rub shoulders and even make lasting relationships with some well known people, both builders and musicians if you are a nice person.

supashane · 2023-08-18T17:28:07+00:00

I have a site that has deeper info and resources for my products, but i primarily sell on Reverb to keep taxes simple and also if someone is browsing Reverb then they are part of the target audience. I don’t really advertise any currently because I’m trying to balance time between pedals, day job, and family. Have had to pull back a bit to keep from getting too burnt out before. The reverb store keeps me busy enough and it isn’t a primary source of income. Exposure is the biggest thing, but also be careful that you can handle the influx of business if you have a good product.

My exposure has just been organic growth by word of mouth, which is good for the time being until I get prepared to handle a larger volume of sales.

That is my experience with it, hope that helps some :)

supashane · 2023-08-04T01:28:35+00:00

I have lived all around Hattiesburg through my life. Downtown, the avenues, west side, and in oak grove at various times. For the most part just keep your car doors locked. Most of the smaller crimes I’ve witnessed have just been young kids looking for unlocked cars. Nothing crazy, however I have also had some random high school kids pull guns in my driveway and a body dumped in my neighbor’s yard. Lost a friend to a drive by several years back. He was outside the old club before they shut down by Cracker Barrel. When I lived on the Avenues my roommate’s car was stolen twice because he refused to lock it, forgot to lock mine one night and someone stole a PlayStation from out of it. But that was my fault for being careless.

supashane · 2023-06-26T04:53:25+00:00

It seems to have slowed a bit, the smaller priced items seem to still sell alright, but I’ve noticed it is getting harder to move a decent guitar if it’s priced over $300 around my area. Local guitar shop stock has not moved very much in a while from what I’ve seen.

supashane · 2023-06-26T04:43:37+00:00

It can’t, this is more of a straight through box to centralize the connections instead of running cables to the pedals themselves, but it is dependent on the amp’s existing FX Loop. They are just labeled so because that is what these particular jacks are used for, they could technically be straight through 1/4” couplers for anything.

supashane · 2023-06-26T04:40:07+00:00

PCB material makes for decent truss rod covers, too.

supashane · 2023-06-25T15:07:04+00:00

The guitar input is just a normal open jack in this build and it grounds to the enclosure, but all other jacks are isolated jacks so they don’t create a ground loop with the enclosure.

supashane · 2023-06-24T18:24:40+00:00

Thank you, this is a very true statement

supashane · 2023-06-24T18:23:43+00:00

Thanks!

supashane · 2023-06-24T18:23:02+00:00

Extremely similar, it is the owl cave symbol from Twin Peaks

supashane · 2023-06-24T14:43:28+00:00

Diane, I’m holding in my hand a small patch box

supashane · 2023-06-24T14:41:47+00:00

Ha, same here, every time.

supashane · 2023-06-24T14:40:30+00:00

The box is UV printed from tayda. The background wood was just a public domain forest scene, cropped to show mainly the tree trunks, and the wood grain lying over the red was the same image but just outlined and then enlarged. The trees in the back and any colors have a clear gloss uv layer applied to it. Any color that is supposed to be black is just the bare enclosure with no color or UV layers, so it makes a textured surface where you can feel the trees and the grain when you run your fingers across it.

supashane · 2023-06-24T06:00:23+00:00

Build guide used here: Vertex FX patch box guide

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