Build a Percussion Stompbox for $20 

Best DIY stompbox recipe I’ve come across so far. Thanks mate, the “build” goes down tomorrow.

This even gives a snare sound! Very good!

This is a good example of the KISS principle - keep it stupid simple, nice work

This guy is really humble and cool. Great hair! New Zealand seems to be the place to be. Would really like moving there someday.

Meanwhile they sell stomp boxes for $200-$300 that don’t do anything more than this bit of scrap wood and $20 piezo. If anything, this scrap wood version wins points for being authentic badass.

Fantastic. Thanks for saving me a hundred bucks!

Nice Cheep and simple Thanks for sharing

Great work, brother!! 👏 Gonna build me one!

Thanks for the inspiration, started to work on my self-build stomp box thanks to your video. :-)

Great! Thanks for sharing

Love it. Thanks

Excellent work and a simple project. My thanks for sharing your talent.

Love it! So simple

Well done! I laughed when I saw this because I had just been thinking of making a stomp box so I watched about a dozen videos on the subject. But not only is yours the simplest but I didn't see another one that sounded better and most sounded worse. You proved that sometimes simplicity is best. Some people tend to take a simple idea and over-complicate it. Being a woodworker, I understand that but there's no need to make a work of art or a complex design for something that can be so simple. I happen tot have a suction cup guitar pickup that I bought a few years back but never used. I bought it thinking I would use it for special applications when using my digital recorder - like recording the internal sounds of engines, etc., but I never used it. Tomorrow I'm going to try what you've done here. Thanks so much for posting this. By the way, I think you can pick up this type of pickup for about $5 in the states. I can't remember what I paid for it but I don't think it was anywhere near $20.

Nice job Bro, best I've seen yet!!

Thank you for this

Also I wear boots but the rubber heel protectors makes a huge difference in clean deep base addition

Nice! I have one of those suction pickups lying around. Never thought of turning it upside down! I also just caught wind of the Wazinator stomp which is just a flat piece of wood with what looks like a large speaker on it. Your solution is best of both! Like you I don't like having one foot significantly raised above the other. Cheers! Going to try some different wood planks I have lying around.

Thank you!

WOW ! Best sounding box i heard.....perfect and simple....thanks

I've been doing some research for stomp box. mark3 sounds great. thanks for posting

3 time's the charm sir. Thanks. People are doing a whole lot of electronics in between the pickup and the output jack, but i'd rather not. I won't be gigging anyway, what does it matter? This is great, Thanks. I'm sure the wood thickness and type will also have a bearing on what kind of sound you get.

Thanks for sharing

I love it! I'm totally blown away, best one I've seen and you play very well. Well done.

Ok, I am as cheap as anyone, but when I compare your contraption with my Ortega Stop box, totally satisfied with spending $70 more for professional product.

Cool man!

Very nice. I actually use Cigar Boxes and Piezo Pickups. On my higher end ones, i use 3 piezos and a preamp with a 3 band EQ and volume control

There's a Bass-Pedal called "The mole" (electro harmonix). If you use it with this "stompbox", you'll get a fat bass sound. It costs about 40 €, but that's a very good investment. It works perfect!

Mark 3 man love it

nice.. thank you.. nice playing too.. ;8)

Shop online for “piezo disc” and you’ll find the guts of that guitar pickup he uses for less than a dollar a disc. Hot glue and a bottle cap works great for a casing. I use those discs for acoustic guitars, standup basses, cellos, violins, banjos, and electronic drum triggers.

Excellent

Excellent idea!

I never would’ve thought just a solid piece of wood with a pick up on it with sound that good. Ridiculous how much companies are charging for basically the same thing.

Thank you

Steve this is just amazing!! Thanks for sharing it Ale

best sound I have heard from a stomp, nice deep thud,

Great idea ! Thanks for sharing 😊

Great Playing!

Nice one ,now I got you

I know what I'm doing this weekend!

Nice job, great to hear a fellow kiwi!

I have one of those guitar pickups around too I will have to try this !!!! I bought a stomp box for $ 300 from a online music store and sent it back because It didn't sound as good as yours .

I wouldn’t glue it. I’d t a piece of wood over it and screw the two ends. 😊 Gonna build me one. Thanks!

Brilliant !

That's funny that it's the most simple design and yet it sounds the best. Lots of elaborate builds that look amazing, but they have a weird sound to them.

Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

I just watch the hobbit the other day and now I see your video right here and well there's no explanation needed

Good stuff thx

It sounds like you have a wood floor and the mk 3 is well coupled int the hollow part of your floor, which of course would have a great low frequency resonance. I'm betting it wouldn't work nearly so well on my concrete floor!

Thanks!!!

Your stomp box sounds better than most others

Simple and perfect i love it

Nice. I'm using an old bamboo breadboard. Works fine.

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Thanks

New subscriber. Thanks for the info, I'm tired of smashing down when playing for sound. This should be great

Fantástico!!!

I love it... Nice job!

Cool

Awesome!

Thank you.

Thanks for sharing - sounds great! Question about the electrical box - is the transducer still connected directly to the wood? Or did you mount the box to the wood, attach the transducer to the bottom of the plastic box and then screw the lid to it? Looking for a suitable box, if you happen to have a make/model number to pass on? Thanks!

Hmm. Wonder if I still have that bottle cap pick up from my old guitar. I could pretty much make it for free.

Great video! Thanks for sharing! I’m curious, if I wanted to add a rattle soun, do you know if the pickup would capture the sound if I attaching something that rattles onto the board?

I bought LogJam stomp box...but this sounds pretty much the same.Nice job!

for a fatter, deeper sound, put on safety shoes. Heavy work shoes work well or hiking shoes. Makes a big difference ... l

Great!!! Hey man, you look like Greg Allmann hehe

Hi, great informative video..I kept backing up trying to understand the model/name of the pickup but still can't hear what you said. Hope you get this message, thanks.

Just a reminder: The type of shoe you wear while using it matters hugely. You just have to experiment. And I'm wondering about thicker wood vs thinner wood. Which would work better?

Great Video. Do you find you have to really crank up the gain on your amp/PA to get it to sound loud enough?

Steve!!! I don't know if you remember me from the gym, Its Vann. we should catch up sometime my friend!?

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great stuff, where does the higher sound from the front come from?

Dang you should sell those...

How did you fix the electrical box over the piezo?

Is their a way to modigy the transducer so that their is a in and out put?

Did you try just gluing the transducer to your shoe?

Check out the shakers attached to the foot of the percussionist from Piedmont Bluz. Something like this might make a cool addition to a stomp box: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jCyCw0BrOrs.html

What was that number of the Piezo pickup you mentioned? Please?

how can i make the snare sound?

...and what kind of wood is it?

And here's a REAL stompbox, the Australian way: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qHGrYll3O6Y.html

Too bright for me.

Brilliant!