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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: dwcle on April 05, 2004, 03:36:08 PM

Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: dwcle on April 05, 2004, 03:36:08 PM
Pretty much a switch that mutes the signal when you press it, and unmutes it when you step off...

Would I really need anything besides the switch and the input/output jacks?
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: gez on April 05, 2004, 03:39:22 PM
Momentary switch might be a little quicker than the latching type if you're intending to do this.
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: Arn C. on April 05, 2004, 03:56:55 PM
My son plays Bass and I mounted a normally closed momentary switch in his bass before going out of guitar to amp.   He loves it!  The faster you can click it, the faster it stutters.

Peace!
Arn C.
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: dwcle on April 05, 2004, 04:01:20 PM
Quote from: gezMomentary switch might be a little quicker than the latching type if you're intending to do this.

Yeah, that was my plan... something like this from radioshack..


http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F011%5F002%5F015%5F002&product%5Fid=275%2D609


(http://www.radioshack.com/images/ProductCatalog/ProductImage/275/m275-609.jpg)
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on April 05, 2004, 04:30:49 PM
Hmmm I remember using two SPDT switches, one momentary stompswitch and one toggle to change between NC and NO. So you had a stutter design that was versatile. Either no signal when not pressed, or no signal when stomped... really handy, I haven't made that yet due to an absence of momentary SPDT stompswitches in Holland ;)
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: loki on April 05, 2004, 06:32:16 PM
wouldn't it be easier to handle a les paul like switch? i mean like the one that lets you select between treble and rhythm, instead of a button? so you can stutter a la tom morello  :D
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: gtrmac on April 05, 2004, 08:49:44 PM
http://www.geofex.com/

Check out the Variable Stuttering Pedal Article. that's the one i plan to make.

Thanks RG! :D
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: moosapotamus on April 05, 2004, 09:57:28 PM
gtrmac-
Did you do a search for previous discussions on that circuit?

I thought there were some unresolved problems with it (can't remember specifically what they were, tho). yes/no?

~ Charlie
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: R.G. on April 05, 2004, 11:40:51 PM
Yes and no. The series version is prone to clicking, as I thought it might be. The shunt version should be good - although, as I stated, I've not put the entire thing together, just fragments.
Title: I'd like to build a "Stutter" box.. any ideas?
Post by: dwcle on April 06, 2004, 04:07:07 PM
Quote from: lokiwouldn't it be easier to handle a les paul like switch? i mean like the one that lets you select between treble and rhythm, instead of a button? so you can stutter a la tom morello  :D


I tried that.. after seeing van halen do it.. I don't like doing that, though.. plus, I use both pckups a lot... and I don't to put any extra switches on my guitar...
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