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
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Build a pedal or two first or just use them as is.
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...
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
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
and thanks for the other comments too - i’ll keep thinking on it and learn a bit more too