BUILD YOUR OWN FEEDBACK LOOPER
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Hey pals!
Have you been toying with the idea of getting into building your own effects? well a feedback looper is a great place to start! it's a super simple little project that can breathe life into effects pedals you may have lying around that you don't use. Delay's morph into endless pits of repetition, fuzz squeals and barks back at itself and god knows what else you will stumble across when you feed an effect back to into itself. Bite the hand that feeds. Tear it right off.
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This is a pretty cool build. Would be really neat to add an expression pedal to change the Resistance of the potentiometer
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
3 жыл бұрын
would super easy to add an exp jack you just need a switching stereo jack 👍
Nickel 👌. Merci mec.
Killer job! Thanks
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
4 жыл бұрын
TH3RD PARTY 👍👍
Brilliant! Thanks :)
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
4 жыл бұрын
gyrosphinx no worries dude!
This is awesome
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
4 жыл бұрын
David Cox thanks pal!
Working on integrating this into a modded les paul.Thanks for the tutorial 🙏🏼
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds interesting! would love to see how it's ends up looking :)
Great vid!!! Thank you so much! Can you do a loop effect for a delay?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
yep this will work with a delay, that's basically how the feedback knob works on a lot of delay pedals.
Is the power just for the led so that you know its on?
Built one upside down with a giant knob i control with my foot. Nice!
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
Rad! Best thing about using oversized knobs for sure.
@philspill6854
2 жыл бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO how would it work with a Digitech Freqout? Have one but its not near me now
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
@@philspill6854 🤷♂️ No idea? you’ll have to try it
imagine if instead of a potentiometer, you connect it to some sort of rocking pedal (like a volume or wah)
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
very easy mod adding an exp out for pedal. May do a tutorial on it in the future 🤔
@PyfeTweesen
Ай бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO DO IT!!!
Is this possible with a dpdt momentary and a passive? I love your pedal btw. Great work!
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah man just ignore the right hand column of the 3pdt switch. The Power jack is just for the LED so will work passively!
Hi !! Amazing stuff, about to start building one as my first pedal project! Was just wondering if you had a drilling template by any chance, even without the design, or if you know easy ways of making one ! Thank you for the vid !
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
Жыл бұрын
Hey, I think I just eyeballed it tbh. If you wanted to make one I’d recommend downloading a build guide pdf for a random pedal in the same enclosure size from somewhere like pedalpcb. They usually have a drill guide in there so you can use that as the template and add your own holes/move the existing ones.
@antoineleonardon2863
Жыл бұрын
Ok thank you !
Hi, great video! I've built this pedal, but it kills the signal of the connected effects when the footswitch is disengaged. Is there a way of adding a switch to keep the effects on when the Feedback Loop is off? Or have I done something stupidly wrong?? Thanks in advance!
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
That’s what it’s supposed to do! There’s a bunch of diagrams online for a feedback loopers with toggles to flip it into just a regular looper
I'm an absolute noob in building things like these. Can you describe the steps to add an expression pedal jack? Thank you in advance.
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
you’d need a stereo switching jack, its difficult to explain in a comment with no diagrams but if you give it a google there are quite a few articles on swapping a pot for an EXP in 👍
everything is turned on but it doesnt sound like any signal is passing through with the pedal on or off? probs gonna take another crack at it tomorrow but any tips on where i may have went wrong?
What inks do you use for silkscreening? I use marabu marastar SR and I get mixed results, I also saw you used a soft squeegee, personal preference?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
3 жыл бұрын
I use One shot enamel paint, 120t screen and a hard squeegee. Not sure what I was using back when I made this video though!
Is there an easy way to add a dry and wet blend?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
You would need to build another circuit to run a parallel clean blend. The runoffgroove splitter-blend would do it I’m sure there are simpler circuits for clean blends too if you have a dig online
does the signal pass through the pedals in the loop (just without feedback) when the pedal is bypassed, or does it bypass the pedals in the loop entirely?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
bypasses the loop entirely
If I were trying to integrate this into a pedal, (so it wouldn't have any jacks, I just want the knob, the LED and the footswitch, would you just split the signal of the pedal in two at the end of the circuit, and then treat one side of that as the send and return hot leads on the jacks and the other side as the in and out hot leads on the jacks?
@wrencormier513
2 жыл бұрын
The pedal is a modified fuzz face circuit i designed
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
Do you mean you'd wanna add it into a pedal you already have? You'd want to wire it so the send is going directly to the input of your effect and the output of the effect is going directly to the return. Depending on the effect you're adding it to you may wanna use a different pot, might be worth auditioning a few, The pot I use in this video was just the value I'd had the best results with in most instances! 👍
I followed this except without the DC Jack, led and resistore and I dunno if I did it right or not. When the pedal is turned off I lose the effect pedal its linked to and just get a clean sound, is this correct? Also doesn't seem to like my DIY fuzz I built as it doesn't change much but makes my Autowah go crazy when it the knob is fully to the right which is funny as
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
4 ай бұрын
yep it should just be a clean bypass. Some circuits will react differently to feedback loops its just the nature of the beast
@AzzaYaDog
4 ай бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO oh sweet guess I did it right then hahahahaha
could it work without a pedal in the loop? like if i patched the send a return together or if i just wired it without one? Cause ive been lnterested in a feedback mod i saw for a big muff and thought i could use it for a pedal until i found this
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
nope because nothing would be fed back on itself. a feedback loop for a big muff would be feeding the muff back on itself.
You drill the enclosures after they are painted and screenprinted without any painters tape? How do you not scratch the finish?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
3 жыл бұрын
🤷♂️ it’s pretty easy? Just be careful I guess
@cavanray5327
3 жыл бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO I would assume it must be doable since you aren't the first I've seen do it, but so many diy instructions say you should use painter tape, but not having to do it would be alot faster.
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
3 жыл бұрын
@@cavanray5327 Whenever I’ve seen other people use masking tape it’s usually because they’re measuring out their holes and marking out measurements on the tape stops you having to draw directly on the enclosure. I include the drill template into my artwork so don’t need to measure anything
@cavanray5327
3 жыл бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO I assumed it was also to protect the enclosure. I'm talking about the blue painters tape btw. I would love to have the drill holes marked on the template, I just want to avoid the shavings scratching the paint.
How would i wire it without the dc power source? Not planning on using an led
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
Hey man, if you’re not using an led just ignore the dc jack and that column on the switch completely! You’ll still need to connect the ground lugs on the jacks to the footswitch though 👍
@masongantt2089
2 жыл бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO thank you so much!
How could i add a mix knob to this? Thanks!
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
Жыл бұрын
This is essentially a mix knob mixing the signal back on itself. You would have to build a clean blend circuit if you wanted to do what I think you’re asking
@mothspleen1343
Жыл бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO Yeah, you're right i meant a clean mix. Do you know any simple schematics i could use, bear in mind im an electronics noob! Thanks
about the A500K is it linear? no idea what the difference is, just wanna be sure
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
nope, it’s logarithmic. That’s what the ‘A’ prefix means, if it was linear it would be a B500k. Each pedal behaves differently with a feedback looper so I’d recommend trying bunch of values to see what works best with what you have in the loop.
@norskr6583
2 жыл бұрын
@@HOLYISLANDAUDIO thanks for the quick reply!
do you think this is feasible to build into a guitar?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
you could do but it would be pointless without having pedals in the loop
does the pot absolutely have to be 500k?
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
not essential but you’ll have a different sweep to the pot!
Bro some of your videos have like 200 views even though they’re really cool and that always kinda confused me.
@HOLYISLANDAUDIO
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! it’s just the way youtube works unfortunately 🤷♂️