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zurowetz
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2008
Hello and welcome to my channel!
My name is Alexander and I love making music and DIY instruments and tools. Here you'll find videos on how to mod your guitar, how to make your own guitar pedals, and how to repair your gear. There's also a bunch of other fun experiments that pop up in-between, so make sure to subscribe to get notified of when I drop another video! ✌😀
My name is Alexander and I love making music and DIY instruments and tools. Here you'll find videos on how to mod your guitar, how to make your own guitar pedals, and how to repair your gear. There's also a bunch of other fun experiments that pop up in-between, so make sure to subscribe to get notified of when I drop another video! ✌😀
imbedded neck pickup
just an experiment with a neck pickup in the neck (haha) just a fun idea I hade to see through 😁
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an easy Boost AND Fuzz pedal on the cheap with love from me!
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one of you told me to make a pedal using a pam8403 and so I did and here it is 😁
unboxing/review CFH LD 221
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hade to get a new soldering station and so thought I'd share it with you all
what resistor for your LED?
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a quick little test of different resistor for the LED indicator on your guitar pedal
fixing a broken pedal kit most common beginner mistakes
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I found a broken pedal from a DIY kit and as it was the most common beginner mistakes I decided to film how to fix them and share that with you 🙂 the kit if you wanna build it yourself: www.musikding.de/The-Easy-Fuzz-kit
this little amp became a awsome pedal!
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found this little amp and its a cool pedal now! and this is how it happened 😁
the eko amp becomes a pedal!
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first video here :th-cam.com/video/0xj-wbxMa-0/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=zurowetz
channel update 2025
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just a update for the new year and some of the changes that are coming
how to turn a Electrical Box into a pedal encolser
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its easy and it can be fun 😋
how to make a super easy dying battery pedal
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is it better to let a fuzz battery die?
Bloopers of 2024
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its the end of the year BUT hopefully I'll see you again next year!
building the black Strat all episodes in one video!
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building the black Strat all episodes in one video!
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 18 installing side dots on the fretboard
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#guitar #woodworking #guitarbuilder #diyproject
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 17 installing frets
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 17 installing frets
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 16 staining the fretboard
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 16 staining the fretboard
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 15 Radius Fretboard
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 15 Radius Fretboard
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 14 making a pickguard
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 14 making a pickguard
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 13 making a templet!
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 13 making a templet!
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 12 making a inlay on the guitar neck
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 12 making a inlay on the guitar neck
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 11 routing out the body cavity
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 11 routing out the body cavity
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 10 designing a pickguard from scratch
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 10 designing a pickguard from scratch
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 9 scooping the neck
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 9 scooping the neck
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 8 routing neck pocket
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 8 routing neck pocket
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 7 Measuring, Marking and Cutting Fret Slots
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 7 Measuring, Marking and Cutting Fret Slots
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 6 glue on fretboard
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 6 glue on fretboard
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 5 routing the truss rod channel
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 5 routing the truss rod channel
Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 4 cutting out the neck
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Making A Guitar From Scratch: Part 4 cutting out the neck
i love these videos
I built a piezo pick up that clips on like a tuner. It sounds sound pretty could but it’s about the same as an under bridge piezo.
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love that idea .Would adding a small amplifier board to the piezos be a good idea?
@@edwardpuljer5441 yeah I think that's what I'm going to doing I just need to figure out where to put it so it looks nice and also increase the volume different on each pickup to their equal to each other
@@zurowetz more knobs more problems
Mounting a contact or piezo pickup into the base/heel of the neck is a great idea! Mixing a neck and bridge piezo would be a fantastic thing to try out.
@@DrewDawkins thank you I need to keep working on it I feel like the neck need to get louder 😀
All the switch flipping is heaven
@@tigmil8116 oh yes I addicted to flipping them now 🤤
Nice! I'm glad you found that voltage board part #. I ordered several just now. I was trying how to figure that out for some preamp boards I bought. I could see one of the extra holes as a LED for when it's switched to go through the amp twice vs once.
@@stevenyoung8712 glad I could help 😀
Just finished building my first pedal (and got it working). Your videos have been super helpful!
@@evanbassett1122 yey! Great work!👍😀👍I'm proud of you 😊
That's a wooly one, for sure! I like it! It would be super amazing with another fuzz run in parallel that's a brighter color.......Or imagine this! -duplicate the final output inside the pedal, and run that through a band pass, or create a switch selectable low pass/band pass/high pass filter, with both frequency, and cutoff pots, then re-combine the filter output to the main pedal output. Could also add a switch that determines whether the filter is before the main pedal output, or BEFORE THE CLIPPING DIODES!!!! Imagine how many different fuzz sounds would be possible!!! And everything from extreme, to smooooooth af. 😄
Pardon me, cutoff, and resonance. 😆 I guess my brain wasn't working fully yet, today. I woke up, looked at YT, and your video was right near the top... I had to watch immediately. Also, had another idea! - Imagine an expression control, hooked to the filter cutoff......... 😁
@@DetroitMicroSound haha! 😆Love it!🍻
@@zurowetz Cheers! Yea, it just came to me all the sudden! Could be really great man! If you don't build it, I'm going to!!! But probably with Nat/Sem LM386's. And I have a handful of Toshiba, and Matsushita germanium transistors from the 60's, and 8 Matsushita germanium diodes, then a few tiny black glass bead axial silicon diodes with just a white dot on them. Not sure who made them, but they are definitely early too..... super tiny!
@@DetroitMicroSound sounds like I've inspired you I think you must build it now 😀👍
Wow!! this is Japanese characters "ka-ta-ka-na" in hiragana character!! I'm Japanese amature guitar player. so this is unique boost and fuzz pedal to me!!
@@freesiaboysince haha I didn't think anyone would notice 😆 nice to have you here! I like to put in silly little jokes in the background whenever I can and see if anyone notice ( no one ever do) 😆
Man, that fuzz gets gnarly!
@@radiobobb22 yeah! 😆🤟 you should build one too!😊
- On the toggle switch _(not the bypass),_ instead of having the signal connected directly to the second input (R) of the board, you could *wire it to a potentiometer* (middle pin) and then connect pin three to the board input(R) and pin 1 to the pedal output (-> "depth" pot). You could implement a bypass switch on the clipping LEDs if you feel like doing so. You can use a momentary one instead of latch, for fun.
@poykehmusic 🤗🤔
@@zurowetz Was I clear enough in my explaining of the idea? 🙃
@zurowetz you should really try this! The Fuzz sound is AMAZING, but you could have a lot of different tones if you could mix both signals this way. Also, a little question, how do you set the LM2596 to output 5v?
@poykehmusic I think so just thinking 🤔
@@jsoukia I'm thinking of it 😊 glad you like it I have a video on how to set it th-cam.com/video/u-fVAYBhSwQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3Za1SUQpAEXvWGc4
Question: Instead of a buck converter, can I implement a simple voltage divider with two resistors (for ex.16k & 20k or maybe 9,1K & 11k) ? Or will that heat too much?
@poykehmusic so yeah you could there's lots of ways to do it a 1,2k on the + and a1,5k on the - I think would give you 5v you can use zener diods if you want or a lm317 witch I did in another video (don't remember withone) just make use you look and see that you got it down to 5v before you power up the pam8403
If we only need 5v, can we usb power this instead?
@onceagain227 yes.
Oh man, this is my JAM Thanks for this broheme
@@TheFlippy1 spacejam! Glad you enjoyed it 👍😀👍
Really, I've been enjoying these little PAMs as low wattage output amps, but never thought that you could do fun stuff like this. Good stuff, cause I bought ten of them a while ago.
@@TheFlippy1 haha! That's great! Glad you have to make a crazy fuzz now and show me how it's done 😛
I love the looks of this pedal. Where you get that knob?
If you look up 1400 style knob you'll find similar, I have some pink ones I got from tayda somewhere
@@tigmil8116 thay are called gtm davies 1400
@@heggy_69 you're faster than me haha thanks for helping out 👍
@heggy_69 I've seen the knobs and the type just not the color where I've been buying mine. I have some other type of Davies in pink, i just never seen these klon like knobs in green...or pink for that matter. I wouldn't mind some in purple.
@@tigmil8116 check ebay pretty sure I got them there😗
You rock. Giving away your knowledge is so admirable. Well done Sir ❤
@@patrickmcmanus5373 thank you thank you 🤗
I have been buying heaps of these modules after watching your videos. I blame you ❤ Fantastic value and saves time. What do you think of the new earphones with mini triode vacuum tubes at low power. They only cost 1000$ and more.
@@patrickmcmanus5373 haha I glad you're having fun 😋 I've been thinking of getting one oh thoughts and see if I can make a tube pedal out of it for fun and than use it with my solid state amp and see f it gets closer to my tube amp 😆 1000$ what have you been looking at the ones I've seen are around 35$ still think it might be too much for something so stupid 😆😆😆
good tips man, buying a step drill right now
@@drwhave 👍😀👍
Buy a chainsaw mill and use a nice solid aluminum ladder as your guide.
I want my iron to brake so my cheap ass will buy another
@@jeffwigle9154 😅
Think you could make video how to stop effects switch popping coming out of the amp happening with Dpdt and toggle switches i’m using cheaper switches, of course, but maybe a resistor or something could stop noise. Just not sure how to do it.
@@gregmadden5474 there are softer switches that you can get its one of the more common mods to do if the switch itself is heard through the amp but there could also be something wrong with the pedal is hard to say without knowing more but I'll see if I can make some sort of list maybe of the most common popping reasons and maybe one of those will work for you 🙂
Took a pedal apart and put it back together then it started working so I’ll count that as a win
@@CaptainWrinkleBrain WINNING!🥳🍻🍰🎂🍧🍦🥧🥧🧁🍪🍨🍾🍹
Thanks so much for this, very helpful for pedal building
@@CaptainWrinkleBrain 😊
Rip old iron.
@@tigmil8116 oh yes yes the plastic crumbled to dust in my hands luckily I didn't get hurt
@@zurowetz I had an iron basically explode the power cord out the back of it while in my hand once
After 45 plus years experience, I have yet to see an accurate relic
@@gazt445 until now?😗
Bright led means less power to the pedal, less headroom in some cases, component starvation in some cases desirable and in other cases not.
@@williamridenour2191 yeah 👍 its important to know if thats something you need to think about when you are building something 😁
Great video! I may just go back to an abandoned project pedal.
@@radiobobb22 yes! Do it👍😀👍
Definitely keep up with it. I've been cooped up in Northern Michigan in the US with all of the snow and watching a lot of these types of videos from a lot of different people. I'm trying to build some of my own things from scratch, and you've been very helpful. A lot of pedals I find on line are people trying to sell kits and premade boards (which is fine, but not what I want right now). I like seeing the components coming together from scratch so I can understand the science and how the different parts affect eachother. Especially reclaimed materials. I like how you can show these builds without talking over my head. I would like to know some of the product specs like diode values and the range it could be and what happens when you change that value (like that diode trim on the LM386 board). I liked how you looped through the board vs using it just as an amp. I don't know I would have thought of that.
@@stevenyoung8712 thank you glad you are liking the videos 👍😊👍I try to not say too much so people will stop exploring on their own I think TH-cam can be good for showing how to do stuff but I also think it can easily give the idea that there's one way to do something and a lot of time you can make a lot of stuff different by just changing a small part and experimenting with that is so fun!😀
Should you use the same type of POTs and value (volume and tone)? What would be a good range for them and the capacitor? Would it be different using that circuit in a pedal vs an amp (the values)?
I'm not sure I understand the question but if I do the values have to work in the circuit you are making some pedal have a 10k for volume and some have 100k it depends on what it is likewise with guitars with humbucker you might go with 500k but a single coils some would use 250k pots to get the sound they want
@@zurowetz I guess I need to mess with it. I don't know enough. I know what all the parts are and what they do for the most part, but like capacitors I have no idea which ones to use and when and why. Especially electrolytic vs tantalum.
@@stevenyoung8712 yeah build some fun stuff and you'll have the hang of it in no time 👍😀👍 what are you making?
@@zurowetz Right now I'm trying to make some cigar box guitar amps. I bought a couple premade from Amazon and a kit from CBG. The one from CBG is prewired with a similar board and chip as the LM386 with a pot on the board. I think it's about $10 worth of parts I bought for $60 a couple of years ago. I made a little amp out of a LM386, volume pot, switch and a 4w speaker for $15 and I have a few cigar boxes I bought for $1 each.. The one I put together just with alligator clips on my desk sounds really good and loud with a cheap Peavy guitar and nothing else at 9vDC. It sounds nice and clean up to 75% and then gets distorted, but a good fuzz tone. What I'm trying to figure out is how to add gain, tone and distortion to this circuit and maybe even get creative and do a spring reverb or some other cool things to stand apart from the basic kits out there and give some to my friends and family. I'm messing with different small speakers at 4ohm and 8ohm and different shapes and sizes like the rectangular TV ones or an intercom, etc. Right now I'm also looking at some other premade boards that are cheap that I can have more wattage and a better speaker, and some cooler switches and volume knobs. Dayton has a few cool boards, but they're more for line level input or Bluetooth, so it sounds great with my phone, but I have to figure out an in line pre-amp when I plug my guitar in, and so it's one power source. I was thinking about a LM386 for the pre-amp. I also want to make some kind of microphone with a piezo or even a recycled telephone, which I'd need a pre-amp. I'm still having a lot of trouble finding how pre-amps and amps can be connected to eachother.
@@stevenyoung8712 sound like a lot of fun I have a video making the velleman mk190 into a amp but thats about it when it comes to amp but also take a look at my video called lovely little panda and how to add a passive distortion control knob if you take all those video and put them together it could be what you are looking for 😀
Is the round coil thing an Inductor?
@@shubhanbrahmkshatriya7460 yeah 👍
Si que dejas el parlante puedes hacer un talk back
Very cool!!! I bought a dozen of these boards for $8 on Amazon. I used one as an amp with a pot, switch and 1/4" jack in with a little 4W 8ohm speaker and it was amazing. At 75% it's decent level and clear and 100% it's destorted decently. It will be going in a cigar box. So, you're looping through the LM386 with the reversed diodes on the output + and going in on the input again after the switch? Makes me wish I had Highschool Electronics now vs in the 80's (and I wish I kept at it). I would like to hear what it sounds like with out the diodes, but still going through the board. Any other cool pedal ideas for the LM386?
@@stevenyoung8712 glad you like it sounds like you made a fun little amp😀 I have a play list on my channel with a lot of lm386 pedal buils so check them out and see if there's anything there for you 😊
That’s got a great indie/garage rock tone. I really dig it!
@@radiobobb22 yeah!😀
Every punk rocker in the world needs one of these little mud machines. Well done.
@@TheFlippy1 woho! 🤟😆🤟 but mud machines 🤔
I'm about to probably buy that amp on Amazon, they have it at 15€ ! How much did you pay for yours?
@poykehmusic I think 20 so if you like the sound go for it😀
Great intro! 😀 You could add diodes to your signal through a switch or a knob. Looks like you even have room for a simple 555lfo and a vactrol (->tremolo). Or just a tone knob.
@poykehmusic oh yeah great ideas I'll have to look into it thanks 😀
@@zurowetz Well you've already done different diodes so that would be fast and easy. But maybe trying something different will be great.
@poykehmusic yeah and it already have a tone control so we'll see what I can come up with 😁 but any ideas are welcome 😊
@@zurowetz I'm gonna try an FX pedal where the signal goes through a CD40106 (schmidt trigger). It looks interesting "on paper" but it might be unusable as an audio effect. Answer this week-end 😀
If you run the out leg of the volume pot to another 100k variable resistor with two 49k resistors and a 10pf cap out, it becomes bass control. Works well with a tone knob.
I enjoy your videos. 👍
i also enjoy his videos.👍
@@scramblesthedeathdealer well thank you there's going to be more coming soon 😁
@@RaidernsOnFire thank you too I'm glad you do!😀
I for one love your videos. Basically you are creating a amp sim pedal which is in Vogue these days with delusional people who are young saying digital is the best. They don't realise digital is awful money making evil from the bad side of the eighties. Digital is now the Millennial guitarist go to because they are retarded by inbreeding pop music fans 😂 ❤
Haha I'm glad you like it 😃 I think I know what you mean to digital is probably better but its all the same and never anything new but sound ways its better quality anything just so you know not that i mind but if you use certain words TH-cam will not show your comment or notify me of them I have to manually look for it just so you know
very dirty sound 😊...btw nice job man
If you want Relic your guitar Play with her don.t fighting or destroyed her
Was stoked about thia video since the Instagram post
Glad you liked it 😊
Killer Little Drive
@@Mythicgregg 🤟😃🤟
IT WILL BE VERY CONVINENT IF U SHARE ALL THE COMPONENT USED SO THAT I CAN BUY THEM N TRY THE SAME,, WILL BE VERY THANKFULL IF U READ THIS
@@menaimacha I've read it now and is it this suppose to be you yelling to me or what?
Not fully convinced of the color of the backside of the neck, the worn off section. The color difference to the well-preserved is too big, for my taste. The rest looks absolutely gorgeous, fantastic work.
@@janb42 will thank you😊 the colour difference will have to do with what kind of life the guitar has had some will be lighter in the darkening of the wood than others it has to do with style of playing and if the person who played sweat a lot or not and if the guitar was around a lot of soking or if it was maybe played outside I try to think of all those things when I make a guitar so none are exactly the same 😃
@@zurowetz I think it is just me not having seen too many guitars with such a wear. :) I am about to start my own relic project and your video is a great help, for sure. All the best!
@@janb42 cool I'll have to send me some photos over on Instagram so i can see how it turned out but remember when it comes to relic guitars les is more 😊
@@zurowetz will do, just started following you on insta :)
- Don't bother about _beard or clothes continuity,_ it's not important as long as the final edit is consistant. - Try collaborating with other youtubers (like Simon The Magpie) It might be interesting for both. - Yes, consistancy in releases (schedule, timing, etc) is good for algorithm and channel growth, but not if it makes your life harder. You better have a strong but small community than a huge one with less genuine interest in your videos (or less good videos). - You can try release *Shorts* more often though (like short edits of your uploaded videos, that you can easily cut). Find ten parts worth being released independantly, and programm their release dates to spread over two weeks. I did that just before releasing my EP and some gathered more views in less time. I'm not consistant with my content (Musics, DIY electronics, Lego) so I kinda loose audience, but you're all DIY and music staff so that should work well for you. - Always ask your viewers to subscribe, like share, etc, at the end of the video (as you mostly do). Perhaps with some little on-screen animations? - Maybe, create yourself a short cool musical intro (and outro?) for your videos. That's more work, but you just do it once. - At the end of your videos, add on-screen links to one or two of your other videos, and a subscribe button if you want. It's quick and easy to do when uploading. You can even add indexes. - You can pay more attention to your video descriptions. Beside the links, and the description (with capital letter, punctuation, and a cool clear layout), maybe add some more info? Or links to related videos? This is up to you. I copy-paste my descriptions on every video, only changing a few details. Advices coming from a guy that only has _75 subscribers_ with _120 videos_ over three years might not be relevant to you I guess, yet it's actually just a bunch of personal thoughts. I'm a family man with a (not steady) job, so I don't spend enough time on my YT channel (although I often plan on changing that). 😅 I wish you all the best your channel deserves, and hope 2025 will see your audience grow, at least if that's what is important to you. Cheers, and talk soon on Instagram. 🤩🥳
Maybe you can create a _secondary channel_ dedicated to *scratch builds,* where you'll move those videos. Less editing time for them snce it's for a niche audience (which doesn't mean less quality content). You can add the link to that 2nd channel in all your other video descriptions. But that might be too much work? It's just for you to be happy this content is released somewhere. I'm really not sure about that, it's just an idea that came out, I might delete that comment tonight 😆
@poykehmusic thank you this is great you've given me lots to think about 🙂 im gonna copy this comment and save it so I can easily read it again 😃 and I'll talk to you on Instagram as well 😁
hey i was wondering, what if you want to split the signal in 2 and add a killswitch to each signal?
@LudoReaper than use a stereo jack 2 switches on on the left and on on the right out put of the stereo jack and then use 2 mono jacks as the 2 outputs or if you wanna split a mono signal do the same only with a mono jack as the in and have 2 wires going of the lead to the different switches al depends on what it is you want 👍😃👍
@zurowetz thank you so much!
@LudoReaper good luck with your build 👍😃👍
I need to do this, I have my guitar either plugged into a big board or right into the interface. With one of these I could add plugins before or after my signal chain. Love the channel.
@@masterofreality230 cool😃👍 and good luck!!