Category Archives: Pedal building

Fender AB763-style Valve Guitar Pre-amp Custom Build

By Frank | Published: May 21, 2014

We were asked to make a valve pre-amp for a customer who wanted a simple clean Fender-style pre-amp, mainly for playing jazz. Here are some of the parts before the build.     The PCB is a charge pump circuit from Tube Town that boosts the incoming voltage (12VDC in this case) to a user-adjustable […]

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Custom Footswitch for Fender Vibroking

By Frank | Published: May 6, 2014

Here a picture of a custom footswitch we made for a Fender Vibroking.     The problem with the amp’s stock footswitch is that there are no LEDs on it to indicate which functions have been activated, so we built a footswitch with LED indicators for each feature. The LEDs can be powered either from […]

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