CWS068-078
Batch of 10+1 OAM Panorama boosts.
CWS028-038
Batch of 10 OAM Panorama clean boosts with various finishes and options. This was the first production run of these pedals, and they were made after La Dispute's European tour was cancelled due to the pandemic. I was exploring various ways of finishing the pedals, including hand sanding, scraping, and stamping.
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.
CWS020 - PTP Boost
This pedal was my first attempt at building something point to point on turret strip. I started making this boost without a plan or a diagram, and was pretty amazed at how nicely everything fit together. Sprague Orange Drop capacitors and mil-spec metal film resistors were used throughout, and their larger size worked well in spanning the distances necessary to make as few connections and use as little wire as possible
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.
CWS014 - Tremolo Optical mod
Another tremolo based on the circuits found in CWS006, CWS007, CWS009, and CWS012. This circuit was modded with two switches, one to bring in extra depth, and another that switches in an optical component.
CWS011 - AB Amp Switcher
AB amp channel switcher built for live use with green (CH1) and red (CH2) LEDs. The switch will also work with any equipment that requires a TS connection using the channel 1 output.
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.