Help a newb turn 2 pedals into 1

Acdeezee86

I’ve got two single knob pedals that work very well together: an electra distortion and an lpb1 clone. My understanding is that these circuits are quite simple…but i’ve never made a pedal before and know nothing about circuits.  The most i’ve done is a pickup swap that worked out fine, but this seems like quite a different undertaking.

my question for the cognoscenti is this: how easy would it be to combine these pedals in one enclosure? I’d want them to each maintain their own footswitch. Nifty extras would include a switch to change the order the pedals stack in and maybe a switch to change the lpb1’s eq (eg. Stock, treble, mids…i know this is a common mod for the lpb) 

Id be grateful for any thoughts and suggestions!!

will upload gutshots of the pedsls in question asap

Winny_Pooh

It's easy enough but not if you've never built a pedal. You'd need to know the basics of layout wiring, seeing signal flow,  how switches work and be able to solder and use a multimeter to troubleshoot. 
Build a pedal or two first or just use them as is.

english_bob

I think you'd have an easier time leaving your current pedals alone and building a new LPB and Electra from kits.

If you're going to start building, a very simple kit with a small number of parts is the place to start, and both the LPB and Electra certainly fit the bill. Pedal building from kits *can* be a fairly "paint-by-numbers" exercise that involves nothing more complicated than following a diagram. You don't need to know how or why it works, just make sure you put all the bits in the right places.

Fuzzdog make a series of small kits that usually fit in to very small enclosures, but also offer a "double up" PCB that allows you to fit two in to a larger box (and swap the order).

Sadly they don't make either of the two circuits you want in that particular series, but they do have separate kits for the Electra and the LPB

Double up: https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/fpdu

Electra: https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/electrica

LPB: https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/lpb

You could shoot them an email to ask if you could use the three kits together. I think you probably could...

Acdeezee86

Thanks both, this is really helpful (and good to hear some voices of reason!)

RickLucas

It is possible. I built a 2 in one pedal combining 2 Fuzzdog kits (Ross compressor and Alembic Stratoblaster booster). I used a larger enclosure and drilled it to suit my requirements. I also incorporated a footswitch for A/B output.

abw1989

I did roughly this sort of thing a couple of years back:

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/202697/finished-2in1-ts-and-klon-peanut-pedal-build

Well worth it, learnt a couple of things along the way too

TJT1979

Another vote for the Fuzzdog kits. 

Acdeezee86

@abw1989 thats a great thread, thanks.

and thanks for the other comments too - i’ll keep thinking on it and learn a bit more too