I hope you enjoy building this one, it's a great pedal and I keep finding new uses for it!! Also make sure to check out my website, free account link >>> waylonmcpherson-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/sign_up
Since this pedal would most likely combined with a fuzz, you should add some switching jackcks to create a non-buffered FX loop to insert the fuzz in the chain with a single stomp of the footswitch of the pickup simulator pedal. 👍🏻👍🏻
Good one! I once have a guitar with no pots, no volume, bridge pickup straight to the output jack, back then i had a digitech RP100 wich not sounded very good, but i controlled volume from there, this would been a nice adittion to that rig, I will be looking forward more videos, cheers!
I have guitars with no pots, no volume or tone. Just a toggle switch to full on full off. Great for Stuttering tricks. I also removed the neck pickups.
There's a company that sells this idea, but as a small component, you install in a guitar's tone cavity. They don't say what it is, but based on the description of what it does (and requires no power!), the evidence suggests a transformer based circuit. I think the pedal based idea is better for obvious reasons. Once I finish with a tremolo I'm building I'll give this a go.
Tried this on the breadboard with a few transformers I have. The one that worked best has 300 ohms across the primary. Tried it with a fairly clean sound. After a while, I wondered if it was actually doing anything significant. Removed it and immediately noticed the difference. It shapes the sound in a pleasant way. Definitely going to get built for that effect alone.
I can see a NZ movie like Mad Max, only no violence: just Americana bands scrounging for pedal parts, post apocalypse, with Waylon played by Ryan Reynolds.
I wish you lived next door. I didn’t even know about reverse taper pots.Great information, great presentation and excellent playing. I subscribed. ✌ 👽 🎸
Really cool. You can't always keep the fuzzes and other reactive pedals first in the chain before your tuners or buffered pedals. Even if you can - if you want to go from one sound to the other without taking any chances, it's hard to beat a stomp box vs. hoping you spin the knob to the exact right spot. I will admit though - it's at least slightly more impressive to do the latter
My hobby is building pedals, including lots of old germanium fuzzes....(okay, okay! well my real hobby i guess is actually buying germanium transistors and old kit that might contain them and pld boxes of electronics from radio repair guy's sheds and wotnot but....) Waylon always shows me something new! Great channel great stuff mate :)
Going even further but still staying passive, you can add a couple 3 position switches to sculpt the tone. A switchable 'bright' cap on the volume pot (150-220pF) is a guitar hot-rodding standard and now many people seem to do a version with a larger 1n cap and a 150K resistor in series. A second 3 position switch allows for choosing between three tone caps (A+B, B only, B+C) or choosing between two tone caps and a tone bypass (A, bypass, B). Different guitars interact differently with fuzz thanks to the inductance differing. Here as the transformer is constant, you can vary the cap end of that LC relationship with a couple selections for more nuance.
An easy and cheap way of using what you have lying around is just using a cheap singlecoil pickup instead of a transformer. Most guitarists have a box of crappy ones. I broke the magnet of and put it inside a fuzz pedal I have and it's now usable everywhere on my board. A separate box with a volume pot is of course more flexible.
just a suggestion, ... maybe build the distortion and this pedal idea into one unit. i.e. two switches, etc. like a Seymour twin tube type pedal, etc. The two circuits already seem to go together well.
That is a great option! But it does miss the point a little for why someone would want to build one of these, and that's to get more out of what you already have :)
6:45 Don't connect a wire between the earth (ground) tabs of the jack sockets AND have a connection through the metal case, this could cause an earth (ground) loop that could induce hum and noise into your signal. It should be one or the other, although the simplest and most logical way is through the case. Just make sure there is a good connection, less than an Ohm, between the earth (ground) tabs of the sockets when you have installed them.
In theory true, but in practice I have never experienced this after building 100's & 100's of units....could be a cool video to explore though, thanks :)
"more mileage out of what you already have" 😂 not sure this is something guitarists and gearphiles would want then! Jokes aside, really appreciate your videos. But now I'm spending too much time tweaking tone instead of playing... 😅
Are you psychic or something? I've just been doing research on pickup simulators for the last couple of weeks, then you conveniently drop this video. I'm gonna need you to stay out of my head 😅
Have you, or anyone, tried building this with send and returns to create an anti-buffered effects loop? Maybe add volume pots for each loops send (and output if you're feelin frisky) to use multiple fuzz pedals for overdrive -fuzz and even stack them cleanly into each other? I put the question out there because I want to know if that's possible/actually good idea before I go buy materials and fail to try and build it lol.
So it looks like the main difference between the 42TM019 you show here and and the 42TL019 you used in the Gold Gizmo is that the primary resistance on the TM is 600 Ω and the TL is 450 Ω. Would that make much difference in either application?
🤔 I plug a wireless receiver into the first pedal on my board so my fuzz choices are limited. I've been going over the spec sheets of all my pedals to see which has an output impedance that most closely matches strat pickups. I wonder if this would work in lieu of rearranging my entire board.
Thoughts on making one without a switch? I’ve got a Hendrix octave fuzz that I have to run at the front of my rig and I was thinking about just having this always on before it so I can place it where I want.
Sorry I have no idea of what I'm talking about but let me digress and pls don't laugh at me if I'm talking nonsense : what you are doing with that pedal it could be what the Yamaha Revstar guitar does with his push pull "Focus" switch ? , thanks.
Aaaand, C taper pots are more expensive… so that’s probably why pedal manufactures, who are already trying to maximize profits in a tough market, choose an A taper pot.
@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar but i thought the purpose of the symbiotic effect was to restore reactivity to passive pedals....i always try to get a grip on what any circuit is doing first, i couldn't exactly manage to do that with the video information, so excuse me if i am wrong.
@@RulgertGhostalker It is a passive pedal to restore reactivity to active fuzz pedals, in particular to simple transistor circuits like the Fuzz Face and all of the offspring which are highly reactive to the guitar's inductance. The transistors in the fuzz and pickups form a relationship which is lost when you add a buffer between them and the transistors no longer "see" the pickup inductance. This passive pedal sits after a buffer circuit and adds the transformer to simulate the pickup inductance which gives the transistors a new relationship to do their magic.
It's under the input jack and out of view. He points to one cap lead which connects to the tone pot and the other cap lead goes to the ground lug on the input jack.
I joined site, the schematic for this pedal is not there. Is one with battery and a flip dot, looks much different. Is this schematic also available? I can probably figure put with video
I hope you enjoy building this one, it's a great pedal and I keep finding new uses for it!!
Also make sure to check out my website, free account link >>> waylonmcpherson-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/sign_up
Since this pedal would most likely combined with a fuzz, you should add some switching jackcks to create a non-buffered FX loop to insert the fuzz in the chain with a single stomp of the footswitch of the pickup simulator pedal. 👍🏻👍🏻
You said ‘Fuzz Piddle’. That’ll be my next band.
Nope ! He said Fuzz Peedal .... haha! I love this guy , think I'm gonna sub !
@@lousekoya1803 No no! It was Fuzz PEEL! 😂
@@altair7001 Hahaha ! 🤣
Now I have to go and have my own piddle. It’s what happens in your 50s when people keep talking about piddles.
Good one! I once have a guitar with no pots, no volume, bridge pickup straight to the output jack, back then i had a digitech RP100 wich not sounded very good, but i controlled volume from there, this would been a nice adittion to that rig, I will be looking forward more videos, cheers!
Nice, thanks :)
I have guitars with no pots, no volume or tone. Just a toggle switch to full on full off. Great for Stuttering tricks. I also removed the neck pickups.
This will finally let me get some juice from my fuzz,/distortion combo. Thank you sir!
There's a company that sells this idea, but as a small component, you install in a guitar's tone cavity. They don't say what it is, but based on the description of what it does (and requires no power!), the evidence suggests a transformer based circuit.
I think the pedal based idea is better for obvious reasons. Once I finish with a tremolo I'm building I'll give this a go.
Tried this on the breadboard with a few transformers I have. The one that worked best has 300 ohms across the primary.
Tried it with a fairly clean sound. After a while, I wondered if it was actually doing anything significant. Removed it and immediately noticed the difference. It shapes the sound in a pleasant way. Definitely going to get built for that effect alone.
I can see a NZ movie like Mad Max, only no violence: just Americana bands scrounging for pedal parts, post apocalypse, with Waylon played by Ryan Reynolds.
🤣🤣
The search for the last of the V8 interceptors. It's probably made of geranium.
This! Someone MAKE THIS 😂🤪🙏
I wish you lived next door. I didn’t even know about reverse taper pots.Great information, great presentation and excellent playing. I subscribed.
✌ 👽 🎸
Awesome, thanks!
Wow! I use such a pedal since over 20 years now. ...But yes, these are very useful.
Yeah, I totally need to step up my wiring and layout. Your work is total art.
Thanks a lot :)
I use a few different distortion and overdrives. I think this would be super useful in there.
This really does the job in front of 2 transistor and 3 transistor fuzzes. If the circuit uses an input buffer this may be less useful.
Really cool. You can't always keep the fuzzes and other reactive pedals first in the chain before your tuners or buffered pedals. Even if you can - if you want to go from one sound to the other without taking any chances, it's hard to beat a stomp box vs. hoping you spin the knob to the exact right spot. I will admit though - it's at least slightly more impressive to do the latter
I always hated fuzz, but this is the most funky fuzz i ever heard, i buy it next week for sure! 🥳
Great video as always!
The sounds are wonderful with this little red box...
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Thank you! Cheers!
My hobby is building pedals, including lots of old germanium fuzzes....(okay, okay! well my real hobby i guess is actually buying germanium transistors and old kit that might contain them and pld boxes of electronics from radio repair guy's sheds and wotnot but....)
Waylon always shows me something new! Great channel great stuff mate :)
Nice, love a good Germ FUZZ, glad you like the vid, cheers!
Mind Blown..... I think i need one of these...... THat transformer looks so cute
Great idea. I always add a 50k pot on the input side of the fuzz pedals i build for similar effect. The transformer idea is cool.
Going even further but still staying passive, you can add a couple 3 position switches to sculpt the tone. A switchable 'bright' cap on the volume pot (150-220pF) is a guitar hot-rodding standard and now many people seem to do a version with a larger 1n cap and a 150K resistor in series. A second 3 position switch allows for choosing between three tone caps (A+B, B only, B+C) or choosing between two tone caps and a tone bypass (A, bypass, B). Different guitars interact differently with fuzz thanks to the inductance differing. Here as the transformer is constant, you can vary the cap end of that LC relationship with a couple selections for more nuance.
An easy and cheap way of using what you have lying around is just using a cheap singlecoil pickup instead of a transformer. Most guitarists have a box of crappy ones. I broke the magnet of and put it inside a fuzz pedal I have and it's now usable everywhere on my board.
A separate box with a volume pot is of course more flexible.
This is such a good idea
Great content as usual. Love learning these electronic tricks.
Thanks!
The new zz top style pedals do what you want
Dude, this is brilliant! Thanks
What's the story with the little spinner thing that's on the red pedal instead of an led? It's awesome.
It's called a status indicator Flipdot, they are pretty cool!
In Deutschland we say: Ohrwurm.
What you play in 1:00😅😂
Very nice playing
Great video, great guitar playing too!
Thanks!
This is really cool! Too bad I recently abandoned the idea of having a primarily analog pedalboard! Might give this a go for studio use though ...
Definitely, great for Re-Amping too :)
I must try this, when I have some time 😢
7:40 this is some beautiful wiring. (From a guy that worked on flight simulator for 20 years)
Love your channel ❤😊
Thanks for the great video
New sub here from Quebec ! 😊
Might be interesting to use this as the wiring in a single pickup guitar I have…
Where do you get that cool flip switch indicator
just a suggestion, ... maybe build the distortion and this pedal idea into one unit. i.e. two switches, etc. like a Seymour twin tube type pedal, etc. The two circuits already seem to go together well.
That is a great option! But it does miss the point a little for why someone would want to build one of these, and that's to get more out of what you already have :)
That would be cool in a volume pedal format.
Lomus Pedals has the Need Café pedal, with two volumes and a TBX. It has a bypass switch too. I've got one!
the Les Paul Electronic active( of Gibson) was very good model ,with an pré-amp incorpored
I’ve been building these for years. Great video!
0:55 fuzz plus antibiotics turns into klon gotcha
6:45 Don't connect a wire between the earth (ground) tabs of the jack sockets AND have a connection through the metal case, this could cause an earth (ground) loop that could induce hum and noise into your signal. It should be one or the other, although the simplest and most logical way is through the case.
Just make sure there is a good connection, less than an Ohm, between the earth (ground) tabs of the sockets when you have installed them.
In theory true, but in practice I have never experienced this after building 100's & 100's of units....could be a cool video to explore though, thanks :)
Most fuzz make good overdrive pedals but it's all about the number of transistors and the pot value on the fuzz /volume control
Loving your videos may I ask: What is that twisted part is that just wire with solder?
Great stuff..
Quick question, have you a treble bleed in that guitar you're using there?
Some fuzzes (for example from messiahguitars) have choke or similar knob that does exactly this.
"more mileage out of what you already have" 😂 not sure this is something guitarists and gearphiles would want then!
Jokes aside, really appreciate your videos. But now I'm spending too much time tweaking tone instead of playing... 😅
Wild
get-ahh piddles are the coolest
The NZ accent is taking over🔥🔥🤣
@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar 😂👍
No encuentro ese transformador en mi pais , cual otro puedo usar?
I am having trouble sourcing the 42tmo19 transformer. Does anyone know where to get one from?
Where does the tone cap go in the pedal
Hey everyone. Let’s piddle 😂
Peedles?
Waylon, what is the body wood on your guitar? Pretty great looking instrument
It's a nice piece of Swamp Ash, cheers!
If you just use this with fuzz, build it into the fuzz pedal.
Why not have the volume inside the red fuzz pedal?
Could you give us some other transformer chosion? I just finded 420TM019 is not popular to buy in local.
Are you psychic or something? I've just been doing research on pickup simulators for the last couple of weeks, then you conveniently drop this video. I'm gonna need you to stay out of my head 😅
Have you, or anyone, tried building this with send and returns to create an anti-buffered effects loop? Maybe add volume pots for each loops send (and output if you're feelin frisky) to use multiple fuzz pedals for overdrive -fuzz and even stack them cleanly into each other? I put the question out there because I want to know if that's possible/actually good idea before I go buy materials and fail to try and build it lol.
So, is this just a green gizmo with a tone control?
Are you going to sell any of these?
What's the purpose of the transformer?
COULD this be used like an 'underdrive' with a single channel amp that's already overdriven to clean it up without using the guitar volume?
It’s odd that fuzz pedals don’t have this circuitry built in so that it doesn’t have to be first in the chain to sound right.
What's a "peedle"?
It's what New Zealanders call a "Pedal", I think it's catching on 🤣
Not a negative buffer but a reverse boost?
Would that make a wireless system able to run a fuzz on the recieving side? That would be BIG
Yes, Guitar>>>Wireless Transmitter>>>Wireless Receiver>>>Antibuffer>>>FUZZ ✅
What's a Pidel?
A ground wire on every component gives me a quieter pedal. What do you think
But what transfor is that ???
Not sure about this one, could you try it with a muff type pedal because for me the sound you are using is simply not a fuzz.
It works great with any Fuzz that cleans up with your volume, build one a give it a try 🎸
Piddle? 😅
So it looks like the main difference between the 42TM019 you show here and and the 42TL019 you used in the Gold Gizmo is that the primary resistance on the TM is 600 Ω and the TL is 450 Ω. Would that make much difference in either application?
Is this a version of Jack Orman's Guitar pickup simulator?
Yup, which was an adaptation to Craig Anderton's 1975 EPFM #3 Passive Tone Control
@@maorienteg I wan't aware of this, I will look into it.
Hi I’m new to this is there a list of parts for this anti buffer. Also were you can get the parts. Thanks
🤔 I plug a wireless receiver into the first pedal on my board so my fuzz choices are limited. I've been going over the spec sheets of all my pedals to see which has an output impedance that most closely matches strat pickups. I wonder if this would work in lieu of rearranging my entire board.
Yes, this would totally fix your issue, thanks for checking it out!
I'm looking for the schematic and don't see it in your pedal schematics, what am I missing?
This schematic + other goodies are available to my fourthwall members, I've got links in the description, cheers!
What's the red pedal with 2 knobs??
Thoughts on making one without a switch? I’ve got a Hendrix octave fuzz that I have to run at the front of my rig and I was thinking about just having this always on before it so I can place it where I want.
Hey Waylon. I emailed you some questions about the 73 Preamp schematics. Can you please reply and clarify, excited to got it going 🙂
Hi Gabriel, I have not got you email, did you send it through my fourthwall.com page?
"What is a "buffered bypass ?"--please clarify !
Always make your own piddle.
Sorry I have no idea of what I'm talking about but let me digress and pls don't laugh at me if I'm talking nonsense : what you are doing with that pedal it could be what the Yamaha Revstar guitar does with his push pull "Focus" switch ? , thanks.
Aaaand, C taper pots are more expensive… so that’s probably why pedal manufactures, who are already trying to maximize profits in a tough market, choose an A taper pot.
why not just put a passive fuzz in your guitar?
I have not heard a good passive Fuzz before but a passive overdrive can work!
@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar but i thought the purpose of the symbiotic effect was to restore reactivity to passive pedals....i always try to get a grip on what any circuit is doing first, i couldn't exactly manage to do that with the video information, so excuse me if i am wrong.
@@RulgertGhostalker It is a passive pedal to restore reactivity to active fuzz pedals, in particular to simple transistor circuits like the Fuzz Face and all of the offspring which are highly reactive to the guitar's inductance. The transistors in the fuzz and pickups form a relationship which is lost when you add a buffer between them and the transistors no longer "see" the pickup inductance. This passive pedal sits after a buffer circuit and adds the transformer to simulate the pickup inductance which gives the transistors a new relationship to do their magic.
@@Peter_S_ thank you....I am sure other viewers will also appreciate your extended explanation here, thank you.
Okay...make it a loop switch so that it only turns the fuzz on when this is engaged. Seems like a no-brainer.
Where does capacitor go? I didn't see it in pedal, just zero ohm on switch.
It's under the input jack and out of view. He points to one cap lead which connects to the tone pot and the other cap lead goes to the ground lug on the input jack.
Thanks Peter :)
I joined site, the schematic for this pedal is not there. Is one with battery and a flip dot, looks much different. Is this schematic also available?
I can probably figure put with video
Why not build such a circuit into your fuzz pedal itself?
Cause then you can't use it with other fuzz pedals, it also works great with loads of different pedals :)
@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar could also be used to compensate for the difference in guitars if you use 2 different instruments on stage
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so this is the " pick up simulator " pedal , yes i built one . yes it works great
Fuzz pedos?? 🤨
"Im gonna show you how that cool little flip dot circuit works inside"... Huh show here what the hell
That's on my fourthwall page for my members, links in the comments, cheers!