Last night I was going through Brian Wampler‘s Pedal Mod book. I realized I had never snipped C11 in my Phase 90 to mod it. While I had the pedal open, I went in and swapped out the LED. I had extra gold LED’s from my RAT clone pedal.
Then tonight I opened up the analog chorus and swapped out the LED to a pink one. I never liked how insanely blinding the blue LED was in there.
It’s done! This is an EHX big muff – 73 Ram’s Head Clone. I used the pcb from GeneralGuitarGadgets.com and the parts from MammothElectronics.com
To be honest, this pedal has been done for a while. I was just waiting on the Hello Kitty stickers. I made it all pink with the stickers as a tribute to my old hello kitty guitar, which I originally purchased 10 years ago. I thought it was hilarious to play hardcore shows with it. Here’s a few photos from the “good ol days”.
T.K.I.D. my old band – July 2007. The Alley – Fullerton, CA – Photographed by: Christopher Rendon
T.K.I.D. – Sept. 2007. Awakenings Coffee House – Lomita, CA – Photographed by: Christopher Rendon
So I found a few articles talking about stacking the capacitor value on the V847 to get different sounds. I found the right capacitor using the article HERE.
I added a SPDT on-off-on to toggle between a bass wah(47nF), stock wah, and a more throaty wah(12nF).
In between doing this mod and posting this update… I accidentally dropped my wah. The fall ended up breaking the switch, but I just ordered a new one. I should have it fixed next week. I’m also curious about investing into a Fasel Wah Inductor to replace the stock VOX one.
I haven’t used my wah pedal in years. I stumbled across some mod ideas from Wampler’s Book. I looked online for some tutorials and I found this dude’s video. I pretty much followed it step by step.
Here is the new true bypass switch and LED.
I also removed the old panel mounted DC jack and added a more modern version.
I tried my first pedal mod today! the R28 lift. I still need to drill the hole for the switch, but I might just leave it inside the case.