Welcome to Overdrive
Spider!
-The low-tech way of making your pedals
sound good!
Hello and welcome to Overdrive Spider! My
name is William Wood and I have been playing guitar for just a few
years, but like many others I have fallen in love! There are two
parts to this site, I started off doing DIY how to effects pages for
the less tech savvy among us and I'm starting to branch out into my
own work from these experiences. I also do how to guides on the mods
I perform so you can compare them or do them yourself if you
wish.
Effects Projects:
Acknowledgements
- In order to make these guides I had to
use a few DIY sites in the process. For the wah I mainly used
Stuart Castledine's wah mod page that can be found here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/s.castledine/greenfuz/wah.html.
After carrying out my wah project, I eventually decided it was
time for a new board completely and ordered one from him using his
other site http://www.wah-wah.co.uk.
Stuart is a top bloke and makes absolutely fantastic stuff. I will
eventually be posting clips of my wah pedal with his circuit board
in.
- I used the Keeley DS-1 mod page
that can be found here: http://www.robertkeeley.com/audio6l6/dstech.html
to find the instructions on how to mod the DS1. I also acquired
the help of several more tech-savvy people such as berarduur from
Guitar Geek and Colin from experimentalists
anonymous. Special thanks go out
to those guys!
- Berarduur from Guitargeek who kept
answering my questions even though I managed to find enough to
make any normal man go insane! "Berarduur, the self sufficient
guitar maan"
- Check out Berarduur's custom work here:
http://www.student.ru.nl/r.kerkhof/Index.htm
he has lots of fantastic ideas and builds some great stuff! He
also does custom orders so if you have a cool idea for a pedal,
chances are he can probably build it. One in particular that
cought my eye was the Rat(z)
which was built for Jackfuzz on guitargeek. Check out his review
here: http://guitargeek.com/chat/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77760