What you would need is a "breadboard". It's like an exploded version of a circuit on a board with jillions of little holes in it. You build a circuit on that board and just patch things together for testing. It's like a physical, tangible version of a schematic. When you get something that works you figure out how to fit all of that into some kind of enclosure. That's probably how most pedals have been born.JD01 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 05, 2018 9:58 am Yeah, that must be really interesting when you've worked it out and you start to work out what little bits do and what effect they have on the ultimate tone of the amp - which I guess is what matters!
I was interested in building myself a TubeScreamer for a bit of fun... I kind of want one but don't want to spent money on what is basically the most ubiquitous green box in music... but then I can't be arsed, 'cos while I could follow a diagram and stick things together easily enough (my crap soldering excepted) I want to know why all the bits know what they do and be able to change things and mess about with things with some idea of what the changes should do and try and kind of design my own pedal to a certain extent.... which I guess is kind of what you're doing with the amp now that you have all this shit sorted.
For me, I'm not trying to redesign anything. I'm just trying to make a known ancient design work like it's supposed to.
