CWS021 - Boost Preamp
Dual footswitch boost with tone bypass. The right switch acts as the master bypass for the effect, while the left switch adds in the tone control for an additional boost. This pedal is used by Vicente Elizondo as a preamp for guitar, going straight into a Tascam 414 cassette recorder. A quick adjustment of the tone control on the left can easily differentiate between warm rhythm tracks and brighter lead tracks while layering onto the 4-track.
CWS017-019
These three pedals were built as refinement to the concept in CWS016. The main circuit is the same as found in CWS008, with the addition of a switch that controls a large or small boost in the bass frequencies.
CWS016
Boost pedal with modified tone section. The capacitors were selected from extended use with CWS008, to be the exact same circuit when the pedal was in its most utilized setting.
CWS015 - Dual Momentary Footswitch
Two button footswitch with TRS jack. This pedal uses momentary switches to select up/down settings on a jamman loop pedal. It is a smaller version of the FS3X schematic with the exclusion of the mode switch.
CWS013 - Flute Filter Fuzz
This pedal has been in the works for a long time. I suppose the story starts years ago when I scavenged an old roadside Gulbransen organ, thrilled to find it overflowing with nice reusable poly caps, resistors, switches, pots, wire, and transistors. I got out my desoldering iron and went to work, filling drawers with parts that I hoped to someday use to build pedals with, even dreaming to make 100% recycled pedals with only parts that were destined to the trash dump.
Project 002 - Pedal board build
I have a habit of tearing apart and rearranging my pedal board for just about every tour that I go on. Earlier this year, I had switched the entire board over to a 6-channel true bypass strip and ran all the pedals through this system. The signal chain went something like, Tuner -> Tremolo -> Boost -> Tape In -> Distortion -> Spring Reverb.