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How to Modify Guitar Pedals: A complete how-to package for the electronics newbie on how to modify guitar and bass effects pedals Paperback – July 5, 2007

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This book, which is a temporary re-release of a DIY basic electronics classic, will teach you exactly how to modify and custom tailor each of your effects pedals to your needs and tastes.

No experience needed.

Note that since this is a limited release of the last version of the book, some of the links inside may be dead. However, the book is being made available temporarily due to customer demand.

Includes:

Complete details on how to modify over 80 different effect pedals
Basic Definitions and Concepts of effect pedals, their circuitry, and mods
"Walk-throughs" of various circuits - what all those parts do, and what you can change it to
Detailed close-up pictures of the pedal's circuit boards showing where the parts are located
Where to get parts and what kind to get
All About Components, the different types, and what they do in guitar pedals
How to read and understand schematics
Installing Pots and Switches to control mods
Installing a Pot in place of a Resistor (add your own bass/ mids/ treble controls!)
True Bypass Box Diagram
Most pedals have several different modifications that can be performed

Includes modifications for these pedals:
Arion Tubulator 11
Arion MDI-2 Bass Distortion
BD-2 Blues Driver
Boss BF-2 flanger
Boss CE-2 chorus
Boss CE-3 Chorus
Boss CH-1 Chorus
Boss CS-2 Compressor
Boss CS-3 compressor
Delay pedal modifications
Boss DF-2 super feedbacker & distortion
Boss DS-1 Distortion
Boss DS-2 turbo distortion
Boss GE-7 Equalizer
Boss HM-2
Boss MD-2
Boss MT-2 Metalzone
Boss od-1 mod
Boss OD-2 R
Boss OD-2
Boss OD-3
Boss odb-3 bass overdrive
Boss OS-2 Mod
BOSS SD-1 Mods
Boss sd-2 Dual Overdrive
Boss TR-2 Tremolo
Boss Xtortion XT-2
Crybaby gcb-95 wah
Danelectro Daddy-o
Danolectro Fabtone Mod
Digitech Bad Monkey
DOD FX60 Chorus
DOD Grunge
DOD od250/YJM308
DOD Supra distortion FX-55B older style
DOD Supra Distortion FX55C mod – newer style pedal
Electro Harmonix Russian Big Muff Pi
Electro Harmonix Smallclone Chorus
Ibanez CM-5 Distortion
Ibanez DL-5 Delay
Ibanez DS-7 Distortion
Ibanez MS-10
Ibanez Powerlead PL-5
Dod FX59 Thrashmaster
Ibanez TM-5 Thrashmaster
Ibanez FZ-7 fuzz
Ibanez TS-7 Tubescreamer
Ibanez TS-5 Tubescreamer
Ibanez TS-9 TubeScreamer
Ibanez TS-9DX Turbo Tubescreamer
Ibanez SM-9
Ibanez Smashbox SM-7 Distortion
Jacques Tube Blower
Johnson “Distortion plus EQ”
Marshall bb-2 bluesbreaker mod
Marshall Guv’nor Plus GV-2
Marshall Shredmaster
Maxon OD808 TubeScreamer
Morley Classic Wah
Morley PWOV Power Wah Volume
MXR Distortion Plus
MXR Dynacomp – Ross Mod
MXR PHASE 90 MODS
Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive
Nobels DT-1
Nobels ODR-B
Nobels ODR-S
Proco Rat
Rocktron Sonic Glory Overdrive
VooDoo Lab Sparkle Drive
VooDoo Labs Microvibe
Tube Driver – 3 knob version
Visual Sound Route 66
Visual SoundJekyll & hyde (gray box version)
Visual SoundJekyll & hyde (Red Box version)
Vox 847 wah
H & K Warp factor

Print length

363 pages
Language

English
Publication date

July 5, 2007
Dimensions

8 x 0.75 x 10 inches
ISBN-10

1434801063
ISBN-13

978-1434801067
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 7th edition (July 5, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 363 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1434801063
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1434801067
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.75 x 10 inches

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From humble beginnings of modding pedals to today with full fledge production of his original designed boutique pedals – Brian Wampler, CEO of Wampler Pedals, Inc. is helping create some of the world’s best guitar tones – one tone filled pedal at a time.Brian first and foremost is a guitar player and has always been a “gear nut” – constantly trying different guitars, amps, pedals, and every combination thereof - always with the same goal of trying to achieve the best tone possible! The quest for great tones has been a life long endeavor that started from the time Brian was a kid watching his older brother’s band practice “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” over and over.

Almost a decade later, Brian is still creating some of the world’s best guitar tones from his own boutique guitar pedal company.So why build guitar pedals for a living and why write about how others can jump in and build their own? In the beginning - every pedal on the market that Brian played just wasn’t producing the tones he was longing for. So instead of being unhappy with stock tones, he started tweaking and modding pedals here and there to get close to the tones he kept hearing in his head. He realized that while many think that they must have an Engineering degree to even start tinkering with pedals, it's simply not true. His goal is to show all of the tinkerers out there, all of those who love to work with their hands and love to create great guitar tones, most guitar electronics can be explained simply. And better yet, taught to anyone with a few basic tools, and the willingness to experiment.

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don wilson

Purchased the re-release digital copy...

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2022

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This is great! This is a re-release of the original book. I purchased the digital copy. (Normally I like actual books)This re-release is great and has color pictures in it.
Plenty of details for beginners. Plenty of suggestions on how to do simple soldering techniques and very specific mods to tons of pedals. A good stepping stone to working towards making your own pedals as well. Thank you for the re-release Brian.

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Ryan Day

Brian Wampler is Awesome!

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024

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This is such a great book. I’ve been modding pedals for several years and still learned a ton from reading this. Great for beginners to experienced modders and builders. 👍👍👍

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Keith M.

This book is great for a total beginner like me

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2021

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IGNORE THE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PHOTOS! They are very easy to follow and don’t need to be in color. I just got into messing with electronics and effects pedals in the last couple weeks and I’ve been modding pedals every day since I bought this and the stuff Brian recommends in this book is great. Very easy to follow with lots of great info for a beginner like me. The book is a little expensive but it’s pretty thick and to be honest I’d pay twice as much for a ds-1 that sounds as good as mine does now. This is a must buy if you want to get into modding but know absolutely nothing.

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Phriendlymd

Good Entry Level Information

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2011

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After reading all reviews on this book, I still decided to purchase it. Whereas the price is a little high for what you get, it does provide good information. As a beginner to the electronic world of pedal modifications, this book does provide a general overview of information that you need to know. It does provide a great amount of different pedal modifications(over half the book), so that is a plus. The book is in black and white. For anyone who has dealt with modifying pedals, color documentation is key. That is a down side to the book, again for the price. However, the values for each component is listed, so one can determine the correct resistor, cap, diode, etc.
This is a good entry level book for anyone who wants to start modifying their existing pedals. It is a must for those who do not have an electronical engineering degree. It reads very well and keeps you reading onto the next page. Is it the "bible" for modifying pedal, no. But it does help the entry level person starting on the long journey of moding pedals.

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Amazon Customer

A good read if you are a total guitar pedal nerd.

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022

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I've been doing music electronics for years but it still taught me quite a few things I didn't know. Written in serious engineering nerd language, so if you are not already familiar with electronics, maybe it will be a bit over your head. A bit expensive for what you get, being a paperback book.

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Seth Spaulding

Worth every penny! Amazing starter guide

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2020

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At first glance, the book is simply a collection of schematics (most of which you can get online for free). However don't ignore the first 20-30 pages; they are an invaluable jump start guide to understanding electronics and components. Plus the schematics are accompanied by explanations of what the various mods actually do. The list od pedals is fairly standard, obviously it is mostly Boss/Ibanez pedals, but there are rare distortion circuits and even Danelectro pedals.

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Thatdudewiththefro

A bible for stompboxes

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2019

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This is dope, everything is broken down, how to read schematics, what different components do, schematics for common pedals, explanations of their components, and great mod ideas.
Not any advanced circuit building or anything. It won’t teach you how to combine a fuzz and an octave pedal, but it will show you how to make a mxr dyna comp pedal. for those who are getting started, this is a must have.

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P. Savinov

The most expensive and hardened toilet paper I have ever bought.

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2009

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Hi everyone and prepare yourselves for sad news about these 332 sheets of paper pasted togher...
I'm not calling it a book, even if this item is sold in cathegory "books".

Do not be mislead by the number of pages (334!), the same amount of information could have been well set on 100 pages. The author just prefers to leave about 50% of every page empty. Add to this a completely awful editorial layout and poor quality black and white photos. Still if you are not confused by the mentioned above info and want to use this "book" to modify pedals you'd better get yourself a big magnifying glass because all the electric diagrams are barely traceable and every simgle one seems to be a reprint of some bad qality bleached photocopy of a scheme which in its turn had been printed by an old dot-matrix printer, and with all this quality the author had the conscience to downscale every scheme to fit a single page. Could you imagine anything worse?
Alas, Brian is the man who can make things even worse yet: some of electric diagrams are in freehand which shows first of all that he author doesn't descend on using a ruler and doesn't care in general to make the lines right and straight and the overall scheme inviting to the eye... Who needs computer graphics these days when there is a pen and trembly hand?!

The text itself is very jerky: first the author tries to make an introduction of electric components rudimentals but in a very hurried and patchy manner, then for some reason he gives a detailed description of what electronic parts could be found in this or that internet shop (a small embedded advertising?) and then he finally goes to the description of guitar pedal mods.
A small surprise: there is NO general info about modifying, there is just a collection of mods to some particular pedals which reader could even not have. No referencies to the mods' authors, but sometimes the author gets honest in his own way and writes laconically "found on web".

Conclusion: we all want to earn money, Brian Wampler is not an exception. He piled together some guitar pedal mod recipes found on web (a process that could take some time indeed), retrenched editing expenses by not having any layout designer at all, inflated the book's volume for a better presentability by adding as much useless space as he was able to (things that could happen innocent of wrong intention when your print your book using some simple text editors not suitable for book editing), and then Brian desided to sell this all for a price that is much higher in comparison with many other books of considerably better quality sold on Amazon.

Dear Brian, no hard feelings, but this was the most expensive and hardened toilet paper I have ever bought.

Dear guitar pedals' mod fans, you'd better spend some time on the Internet and you'll find much more info and for free!

PS I wanted to send it back for refund, but the very delivery of it from Russia costs about 80% of the book's price (yeah, that is what we have about regular post service prices here), so this review is the only way I can renumerate the author with.

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