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Greetings!
Im looking for assistance installing a analog VU meter in my guitar pedal. The end goal is to be able to meter the exact voltage sag/ starve. I am kinda green, so please don't hesitate to spell it out:)
The pedal I want to put the VU meter in is a Dwarfcraft great destroyer

I'm interested in this too...

Not knowing which UV meter you're using, all you need to do is hook a wire from the UV meter to ground, and another wire coming from where the positive voltage is being sent to the board/starved.

I have a couple of these. There are no resistors build into them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2pcs-Panel-VU-M ... 20b3c32f70

Is this just for shits and giggles because I can see no real purpose other than self enjoyment???

It'll look cool but is it useful???

I've asked Jero to make me a dual voltage starver with VU's but it'll be just for silliness and looks, not scientific studies on the properties of starving pedals...

MrMurderMittens wrote:I have a couple of these. There are no resistors build into them.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2pcs-Panel-VU-M ... 20b3c32f70

Yeah, you'd just have to add a resistor and then you'd be set!

sonidero wrote:Is this just for shits and giggles because I can see no real purpose other than self enjoyment???

It'll look cool but is it useful???
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I've asked Jero to make me a dual voltage starver with VU's but it'll be just for silliness and looks, not scientific studies on the properties of starving pedals...

Yeah, the purpose of the meter is a visual aid to assist with dialing in the pedal. If I come up with a tone that I like with the starve at 65%, I want to know that, so I can recreate it.

Unless you hooked up a digi meter or a really nice scientific calibrated VU it's just kinda a ball park estimate... You might as well just remember that the knob was at 1:30 or 9:00 or whatever... I don't want you wasting time installing a VU on a pedal and end up messing it up or something for a mod that may not be as useful as you think...

sonidero wrote:Unless you hooked up a digi meter or a really nice scientific calibrated VU it's just kinda a ball park estimate... You might as well just remember that the knob was at 1:30 or 9:00 or whatever... I don't want you wasting time installing a VU on a pedal and end up messing it up or something for a mod that may not be as useful as you think...

is how I feel

If it's for looks say it's for looks but the pedal is called THE GREAT DESTROYER it's supposed to mess up your sound in a non precisely measured and metered way...

I think you should just try it, if you mess up you can always de-solder and re-solder.

Yeah the thing with TGD is is that is rarely sounds the same twice. tiny changes in impedance will DRASTICALLY change the sound. knowing exactly how much you starved the pedal is not necessarily going to help you achieve the same sound.