Having built a few guitars and an amp I now need to either move to a bigger house, or build something smaller - hence my interest in pedal kits. Before I built my amp (P1800) I was playing through a Fender Mustang (effects included) and also used a Zoom MS100-BT, which was a bit fiddly but did a job. I'm now planning a home built pedal board to use with the P1800. I can use the MS100-BT as a tuner(and possibly one effect in addition), then would use home-built pedals for: compressor, distortion, delay, chorus, reverb - possibly all sitting in a Harley Benton PB5.
Bitsbox and Pedalparts look good options. Any comments on these kits - or suggestions of anything better?
I've seen reference to Direct Connect, but Google doesn't help explain this in the context of guitar pedals - is this relevant?
As always - thanks in advance to the collective brains and experience on the Fretboard.
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You can also tweak component values if you want. I wanted to build a tubescreamer type circuit, but with some different values for components. What I ended up building was a bit of a hybrid between a TS and Fulldrive 2. It had the assymetric clipping of the FD2 but some of the other values were from the TS, or somewhere between the two. If I'd ordered a kit it would have been a straight clone of one or the other.
I've bought boards from Pedalparts, Madbean and Musikding.
Musikding are good because you can order the board, but also order all the other components at the same time.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/61134/sarge/p1
If you are not familiar with it then spend a bit of time looking at the Pedalparts or Madbean websites. It will be quite informative.