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My first and only custom/modified pedal is one of the original Bitquests, with the expression jack linked to Control 0 instead of Control 1. I like it that way to control the pitch shifter via expression. Everything else I use is either stock or DIY (I'm not sure if my ILFDD really counts as "stock", but it's not any different from the other ILFDD's).

rustywire wrote:A 1-off 1776 echorec/space echo/echoplex built by LaoWiz: SPACEHEATER.
It was a personal unit built to his design and traded for by me


I have yet to fully design & commission a custom pedal from start to finish, but have come close on more than one occasion and surely will someday
also the HP, DMM, RRR & Resonator are the (only) 4 pedals I retain from the above photo

Woah, that's from way way back!

A Harmony Central FX forumite named PB Wilson built me an Uglyface in an old volume pedal shell with a custom gold paintjob. I ended up (foolishly) trading or selling it after acquiring someone else's custom 4ms Uglyface with a photocell expression control, which seemed more practical than the volume treadle at the time.

ck3 wrote:A Harmony Central FX forumite named PB Wilson built me an Uglyface in an old volume pedal shell with a custom gold paintjob. I ended up (foolishly) trading or selling it after acquiring someone else's custom 4ms Uglyface with a photocell expression control, which seemed more practical than the volume treadle at the time.

That sounds badass

Still have it too~

I went big when I had my first custom built.

I'd just gotten out of the hospital and after six weeks of failing to die, I thought maybe a "what I really need" all in one was a good thing to consider. I still have it and it's still latched in on my ES-8 as needed (lives under the board on the floor where I can hit the momentary switch for the delay warp).

It's a combo octave fuzz that is set permanently on mean, the analog delay thing with warp (and adjustable ramp on the warp by switching resistors inside if I want), and a stutter trem with a lot of options and a rate LED. Order is switchable for the delay/fuzz placement so I can go fuzz post delay if I want.



I use it mostly for the trem and warp delay these days.

My first was this Dirge built and Danndubblewe etched Fantastic Mr. Fox Tone Machine with footswitchable octave.
I will never part with it, though it has been sorely neglected of late. Should get it on board again.

Around 2003 or so I got a custom Infinitephase built with the S&H mod. Other than that probably the Frequency Analyzer rehouse I had done by Beavis Audio.

whoismarykelly wrote:Around 2003 or so I got a custom Infinitephase built with the S&H mod. Other than that probably the Frequency Analyzer rehouse I had done by Beavis Audio.

Beavis Audio was my entire gateway to the pedal community as a whole. I couldn't afford to buy anything so I thought I would go make me a fuzz.

I still want to try building, but now it's just a matter of not having the desk real estate.

I got turned down by two builders for custom builds recently.

Does that count for something?

Seems like it's becoming a thing of the past. Lots of people don't want to do custom builds anymore if they can help it.

Jesus Was a Robot wrote:I got turned down by two builders for custom builds recently.

Does that count for something?

Seems like it's becoming a thing of the past. Lots of people don't want to do custom builds anymore if they can help it.

What kind of pedal design(s)?

It happens.

My last custom build was cursed. It took three builders to do it.

Corey Y wrote:

Jesus Was a Robot wrote:I got turned down by two builders for custom builds recently.

Does that count for something?

Seems like it's becoming a thing of the past. Lots of people don't want to do custom builds anymore if they can help it.

What kind of pedal design(s)?

Seriously, I'm curious what the heck they were

foomanfat wrote:
My first was this Dirge built and Danndubblewe etched Fantastic Mr. Fox Tone Machine with footswitchable octave.
I will never part with it, though it has been sorely neglected of late. Should get it on board again.

Totally remember this!

Jesus Was a Robot wrote:I got turned down by two builders for custom builds recently.

Does that count for something?

Seems like it's becoming a thing of the past. Lots of people don't want to do custom builds anymore if they can help it.

Building truly custom pedals is an insane nightmare for a builder. Primarily because you can never ever make it worth your time. If its just two fuzzes in one box or something generic like that its one thing but when I was building I would get requests for stuff like a custom vocal processor on par with the $299 stuff from Digitech. The guy didn't understand why that was a $10,000+ project to build as a one-off.

So, I should mention that I did expect to get turned down by both builders. LOL. However, that doesn't stop me from trying every once in awhile.

Once pedal would have been extremely custom and all analog and the other was a dual pedal but of something that is discontinued. So, yea. It was a long shot thing.

As far as digital goes, I have no disillusions about the costs of that stuff. I looked into it previously when I was trying to release a pedal and it can get ridiculously expensive. Shit, analog circuits can costs thousands with R&D and other factors. The digital thing scares me. haha