stealaway wrote:Any updates about pedalboard, equinox? I was reading these old posts again and wondered if you got close to Randy's sound?
I had some of the pedals that Randy had in his board, they're long gone now...
Maybe I will get some of those back again and build myself another pedalboard!!!
WOW, just seeing this post from June, but as everyone I'm sure can agree....with the whole COVID thing, this year has gne to shit!
It's been almost a year (Nov 2019) since I started this endeavor and made some huge progress initially, but then haven't worked on it since!!
I want to, but a lot of stuff came up. All I needed to do was wire it up. I paid the money and picked up all of the original pedals from 1978-1980, so they are period correct. I was worried about how to approach the EQuilizer as it had a door to cover it so settings would not be touched by people once set and also keep dirt out. A friend used a CNC and routed it out perfectly and I mounted it to the top piece.
I originally was just going to use 5mm LEDs with black bezels, but since found a source for some lights (I dont even remember where I got them now, maybe Europe) that are more similar to his original ones, so need to decide to install them or just use the current ones (can always be swapped out later).
I just started this week back into it and working on a layout of the wiring. For some things like the EQ, it's simple to install a typical true-byass setup for the signal. I had to think how to install and overall master defeat switch. The switches to turn the delay or echo on and off while lighting the lamps is easy.
The issues I'm currently working thru are:
1. How to hook up some of pedals as they are not originally true-bypass nor LED and are switched with a 3-pin toggle and toggles the one pin between the 2 other wires. There is about 3 different ways to do this. I wish I knew how Pete approached it. I'll have to finalize on this so that I can move forward, but will reference the pedal schematics and see how it's switched to determine final direction.
2. The other funny thing is, there is an input for the pedalboard, but the signal path is guitar => volume => wah => Distortion + => EQ => Flanger => Stereo Chorus. There is no defeat for the volume, soo I assume the guitar actually goes to it first, then from the volume pedal into the board. But there is a switch to bypass the wah! Soo now you'd have to have wires and signal coming out of the pedalbard to the wah and back!! Need to figure out best way to do that. The Rig Layout suggests the guitar goes directly into the board! That would be cool, but then somewhere you'd need drill holes in the pedalbaord to go in and out to the Volume pedal. The wah would need to be powered from the power distribution I put in the pedalboard and additional holes in the pedalboard with power jacks unless using batteries. tbd
3. There are jacks at the top back of the pedalboard, which I spoke about before. Looking over the various photos, it appears there are 7 jacks on the top left side from the back. I have these all drilled and jacks mounted, but need to understand what these are all for, or if there are more. In the Rig Layout, it's showing 5 jack. First, they are on the WRONG side and from all of the photos available. Secondly, 5 does not make sense nor match the photos. It clearly looks like 7 (which I already have drilled) if not more. I believe they are as follows: Input, Bypass for Delay (to turn on and off), Bypass for Echo Footswitch, Chorus Out L (to Space Echo IN), Chorus Out Right (to Yamaha Delay IN). The problem is that is only 5 jacks in total and I can clearly see 7 (thou can't find a photo with the middle 2 connected)!
Soo, I gotta figure out how I want to approach these before I can finalize it and document how I did it with a layout so I dont forget should I need to troubleshoot or duplicate.
I contacted Dave (Friedman) on which wires to use as have a few to choose from. He said just use the Mugami.
That's about it. I am looking forward at completing this as much as some of you guys, but I want it done and done right, BUT, should I figure this out, I can wire it up in a day!
STAY TUNED! Hopefully coming very soon!!