Great Stuff, Brian. As I see it, you and Josh fill different niches. Josh is The Biggest Pedal Fan in the Universe, and gets us all charged up with his enthusiasm YES, I need fifty different Screamers in the same box . You on the other hand are the Bob Ross of electronics, "How about I put a diode here . . what kind of diode? Well . . you can't go wrong with a 4148, so how about we put a pair of happy little 4148s here for some soft clipping . .and maybe a 741 opAmp here . . .it's your pedal . . you can make it however you want..."
This might be my favorite video you've ever made. It would be cool if could further explain why these things work like they do. Something along the lines of "If you put a resistor and a capacitor in series in this order, you have a low pass filter, and the capacitor sets the cutoff frequency,... now if you put them in that order, you have a high pass filter..." I don't know what I'm talking about but I sure would like to know.
I’m just starting to tool around with pedal building, and without an electric engineering background, I can’t tell you how helpful these videos are. I love all your “techy” videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
RU-vid puts videos like this as the top of my feed, because I watch mostly this type of videos. Thanks for showing the science/trial-and-error behind the magic. It kinda blows my mind.
My favourite part of the day, when mr.Wampler puts out a new video. Would really love to see more of this. Your Enthusiasm for pedalbuilding makes me all juiced up to try and build something. Greetings from Norway :)
No joke this was one of my favorites. Can I put in a request to do the same with the Rat? It’s the Year of the Rat and I’m building a few... Thanks Brian!
Yep, works for me too. A good example of the various distortion families, but also a walk through some other classic pedals like, say, a Phase 90, compressor, octaver, ring modulator, or an analogue delay...
Man, couldnt be more excited about this video. As a fellow DIYer, i love these videos and would love to see one on all the popular circuits. These type of videos teach me so much! Thanks for making them
Loving these drive videos. Thanks for de-mystifying things for many of us. Drives can be the rabbit hole of pedals and can feel like we are chasing our tails most of the times.
I constantly wish I could find in depth geeky circuit talk to help me learn. I'm glad you aren't avoiding it and you can go as deep as you please as far as I am concerned.
Love this content. For the limited amount of quality content about guitar pedal circuit analysis and diy guitar/audio gear, your content is the most enjoyable and easiest to digest. Hope to see more like this in the near future. Thanks
Loved it and I'm definitely looking forward to watching more content like this. I wish to see also what's your personal opinion on what's worth changing on a given circuit or not, like if you were to change something on a circuit what would be your first, second and third primary places to look at and why. This type of content is being a grate complement to your "how to modify your 'bd2/ds1' pedal" book. Keep it up.
Brian I definitely want to see more of this type of content. I’m not a circuit builder or tinkerer but learning how my pedals work is very interesting and fun to watch. Thanks for doing what u do
fantastic, extremely helpful. I like to look at schematics and try to imagine how the sound changes (specifically frequency response), so it's even more fun to hear the component changes in real time. I'm still dusting off ancient circuits knowledge from university, so this video format is especially helpful.
I enjoyed this very much! Great info. I used to be an eletro-mechanical draftsman in another life around 40 years ago at Boeing, but didn't have much of an understanding of what the components and circuits actually did. Music/audio applications makes it fun! You're a good teacher. Thank you.
I've never modded a single one of my pedals, but this kind of content is still just so interesting to me. Love the info, the presentation, the general feeling of "yeah, I should do more of that myself" that I'm coming away with. Good stuff.
Awesome video. I watched it three times. The questions that came to mind are: How do capacitors filter highs? (I thought they just filtered lows) What is the difference in using capacitors in series vs to ground? Most pots are resistors. Is there an application for variable capacitors in pedal circuits? I'm better with these components in power circuits vs tone circuits. I guess I need to keep reading and watching. Preferred circuit for next time? Reverb!
You almost answered your own question haha; a capacitor in series filters low, a capacitor to ground filters highs. However, it's the other way around when placed in an opamp feedback loop :)
Sir, I have owned a couple Zendrive’s and own some great gear and your version SMOKES any Zendrive that I have heard. Nice job ! Great playing ! Yes, more!
As someone trying to learn more about pedals and start building my own this is exactly what I've been looking for. Love the channel Brian, thank you!!!
Thank you Brian for all you do! Glad you send me some emails of what is up and I really enjoy these kind of videos! Great playing and I just love the Zen Drive! made my own version crammed inside a 1590bb next to a Timmy circuit. They work well together in fact lol
I vote "More Circuit DIY analysis". This was very nice to hear the changes as you swapped out components. Very informative. Now something that came to mind was your last comment on the exiting resistor. Can you talk about the standards in signals and what you have to manage coming into the circuit and going out of the circuit? What are the expectations? I figure this is something that needs to be planned and understood to get the entire chain of effects to work properly. Again, thanks for the video!
Yes please Brian more of this! Maybe let us all DIY our own drive together, i have a breadboard here, and if i know what components to get and how/where/why to place them, we can all make our own drives!
I'd like some p2p tag turret component layout videos with transistors and maybe even ICs done on vero/strip daughter boards so we can learn how to connect off turret strip buffers or drop in power supply daughter boards or something like that. Is there any way we can get a How To Build In Old Skool FX Styles, episode... hour long and get extra nerdy. Not enough super nerdy videos out there! We need a weekly SUPER GEEK hour. thank you so much for all you do Brian. We all greatly appreciate you so much. Be safe man✌🤟🤘🤘🤘
Brian, just ordered your book. I love the technical series you’re doing. Been ordering your pedals also. This is one of my favorite channels. I’m always looking for new content from you. Take care.
Good stuff! I love that you are doing this type of vids, jump-starting new DIYers. It's extremely satisfying to breathe new life into not-quite-satisfying pedals bought as a novice player back when. I just finished my 5th one of those today.
I’ve been building diy pedals for a few years, and really enjoy your videos! It’s like buying a new car. The same type car is everywhere all of a sudden...I think a question or scenario about a guitar pedal, and bam! You have a video up explaining it! Then this morning I sat down and you came on in the same pajamas as I was wearing...I said it’s a sign! I’m gonna build pedals and be like Brian Wampler! LOL 😂 I know, I don’t have a shot...but I’m gonna try it anyway....(if the klon clone is successful;)
Loved the video! I DIY pedals myself, so I was nice to see the experiment being done on one of my favorite OD pedals/circuits. For a next video, I'd suggest: 1- Electra Distortion, including experimenting with different types of clipping diodes; 2 - a basic Marshall Bluesbreaker, trying out different clipping diodes (and soft clipping vs hard clipping), what to change to give it more bass, more volume, etc. Keep them coming, Brian!
The first pedal mod I ever attempted was just adding an LED to my wah pedal so I know when it's actually on/off. That gave me a little confidence and I did the Keeley mod to my Boss MT-2 Metal Zone. That turned a punch line of a joke into a decent sounding overdrive pedal. But I do love these style teaching videos, you are a natural at it. Please expand the series to include amps as well as guitar circuit mods. I know the "orange drop" capacitor change will really make a huge difference in the tone circuit. I don't know why, but maybe that would be a good place to start.
I LOVE this kind of thing. I've been acquiring clones of expensive pedals & changing op amps, caps & resistors. Some have been cool, some not so cool, some produced cool pyrotechnics. 🤘🏼
Great video Brian! Keep them coming. May be someday something will click in my head and I will be able to understand the electronics of pedals and amps......Thanks
yes please more of this type of video , I see a turbo distortion sitting on your vox would love to see a video on that one there are a million ds1 and tube screamer mods out there but keep it interesting with some of the not so common pedals
I for one would love to see more like this! especially regarding effects other than distortion/overdrive, delay, reverb, chorus etc. I just like knowing how things do what they do
Great show as always, Brian, personally, I love the "nerdy" type guitar, amp and effect videos, and I would definitely like more of them! You opened my eyes to several things I thought that weren't true at all! Thanks again, have a great week!
Thanks Brian. Love those circuit breakdown videos you put up. Learned so much from them! I actually breadboarded your "basic overdrive" circuit. Sounds amazing yet being so simple! Still mounted on my breadboard and using it regularly.
Love this man! Explains the electronics as well as plays. And the jammies with That Pedal Show t-shirt rocks. All you need is Fuzz, Fuzz is all you need. (but we all like reverb, delay, trem, etc too!) I actually bought a hard-copy book, his book on modding pedals. So cool I even did hard-copy (only because I couldn't find it digitally)
Yes more please. Would be interesting if you gave your opinions on what the pedal designer was trying to accomplish and how they achieved it. Nice shirt!
