Build it : This Symbiotic Effect Is a PedalBoard Must Have!

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

I hope you enjoy building this one, it's a great pedal and I keep finding new uses for it!! Check out those links in the description if you would like to join my fourthwall community

[@XChristianNoirX]

Since this pedal would most likely combined with a fuzz, you should add some switching jackcks to create a non-buffered FX loop to insert the fuzz in the chain with a single stomp of the footswitch of the pickup simulator pedal. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@dickydoes]

You said ‘Fuzz Piddle’. That’ll be my next band.

[@lousekoya1803]

Nope ! He said Fuzz Peedal .... haha! I love this guy , think I'm gonna sub !

[@altair7001]

@@lousekoya1803 No no! It was Fuzz PEEL! 😂

[@lousekoya1803]

@@altair7001 Hahaha ! 🤣

[@julianmorrisco]

Now I have to go and have my own piddle. It’s what happens in your 50s when people keep talking about piddles.

[@hyramjackson]

Good one! I once have a guitar with no pots, no volume, bridge pickup straight to the output jack, back then i had a digitech RP100 wich not sounded very good, but i controlled volume from there, this would been a nice adittion to that rig, I will be looking forward more videos, cheers!

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Nice, thanks :)

[@facemeat]

I have guitars with no pots, no volume or tone. Just a toggle switch to full on full off. Great for Stuttering tricks. I also removed the neck pickups.

[@DenariusHaveNarius]

Tried this on the breadboard with a few transformers I have. The one that worked best has 300 ohms across the primary. Tried it with a fairly clean sound. After a while, I wondered if it was actually doing anything significant. Removed it and immediately noticed the difference. It shapes the sound in a pleasant way. Definitely going to get built for that effect alone.

[@DenariusHaveNarius]

There's a company that sells this idea, but as a small component, you install in a guitar's tone cavity. They don't say what it is, but based on the description of what it does (and requires no power!), the evidence suggests a transformer based circuit. I think the pedal based idea is better for obvious reasons. Once I finish with a tremolo I'm building I'll give this a go.

[@AndrewAlex92]

Really cool. You can't always keep the fuzzes and other reactive pedals first in the chain before your tuners or buffered pedals. Even if you can - if you want to go from one sound to the other without taking any chances, it's hard to beat a stomp box vs. hoping you spin the knob to the exact right spot. I will admit though - it's at least slightly more impressive to do the latter

[@mrrootytooty5797]

My hobby is building pedals, including lots of old germanium fuzzes....(okay, okay! well my real hobby i guess is actually buying germanium transistors and old kit that might contain them and pld boxes of electronics from radio repair guy's sheds and wotnot but....) Waylon always shows me something new! Great channel great stuff mate :)

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Nice, love a good Germ FUZZ, glad you like the vid, cheers!

[@Woozy.0]

This will finally let me get some juice from my fuzz,/distortion combo. Thank you sir!

[@robertdonosobuchner3129]

Great video as always! The sounds are wonderful with this little red box... 😊

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@CoolGuyAtlas]

Great content as usual. Love learning these electronic tricks.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Thanks!

[@KarstenJohansson]

I use a few different distortion and overdrives. I think this would be super useful in there.

[@Peter_S_]

This really does the job in front of 2 transistor and 3 transistor fuzzes. If the circuit uses an input buffer this may be less useful.

[@MadScientistGuitarLab]

Yeah, I totally need to step up my wiring and layout. Your work is total art.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Thanks a lot :)

[@mr.k905]

Wow! I use such a pedal since over 20 years now. ...But yes, these are very useful.

[@doktabob328]

I wish you lived next door. I didn’t even know about reverse taper pots.Great information, great presentation and excellent playing. I subscribed. ✌ 👽 🎸

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Awesome, thanks!

[@pmartin54BB]

I can see a NZ movie like Mad Max, only no violence: just Americana bands scrounging for pedal parts, post apocalypse, with Waylon played by Ryan Reynolds.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

🤣🤣

[@MadScientistGuitarLab]

The search for the last of the V8 interceptors. It's probably made of geranium.

[@Br0hmanMC]

This! Someone MAKE THIS 😂🤪🙏

[@musik4life24]

In Deutschland we say: Ohrwurm. What you play in 1:00😅😂 Very nice playing

[@daithidebarradb]

Great idea. I always add a 50k pot on the input side of the fuzz pedals i build for similar effect. The transformer idea is cool.

[@tymanngruter1808]

I always hated fuzz, but this is the most funky fuzz i ever heard, i buy it next week for sure! 🥳

[@michaelmarchei8539]

Mind Blown..... I think i need one of these...... THat transformer looks so cute

[@petedazer3381]

Great video, great guitar playing too!

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Thanks!

[@lousekoya1803]

New sub here from Quebec ! 😊

[@stefanoidili]

This is such a good idea

[@danielmiller2886]

Dude, this is brilliant! Thanks

[@yikelu]

This is really cool! Too bad I recently abandoned the idea of having a primarily analog pedalboard! Might give this a go for studio use though ...

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Definitely, great for Re-Amping too :)

[@Johnny3three]

Thanks for the great video

[@Peter_S_]

Going even further but still staying passive, you can add a couple 3 position switches to sculpt the tone. A switchable 'bright' cap on the volume pot (150-220pF) is a guitar hot-rodding standard and now many people seem to do a version with a larger 1n cap and a 150K resistor in series. A second 3 position switch allows for choosing between three tone caps (A+B, B only, B+C) or choosing between two tone caps and a tone bypass (A, bypass, B). Different guitars interact differently with fuzz thanks to the inductance differing. Here as the transformer is constant, you can vary the cap end of that LC relationship with a couple selections for more nuance.

[@gstube1]

I must try this, when I have some time 😢

[@MarkSDD]

What's the story with the little spinner thing that's on the red pedal instead of an led? It's awesome.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

It's called a status indicator Flipdot, they are pretty cool!

[@Louis-w1v]

"more mileage out of what you already have" 😂 not sure this is something guitarists and gearphiles would want then! Jokes aside, really appreciate your videos. But now I'm spending too much time tweaking tone instead of playing... 😅

[@blueshawk60]

Where do you get that cool flip switch indicator

[@LeftyPem]

Might be interesting to use this as the wiring in a single pickup guitar I have…

[@terryeaster1]

7:40 this is some beautiful wiring. (From a guy that worked on flight simulator for 20 years)

[@ThemFuzzyMonsters]

Peedles?

[@IvesMarcelin]

the Les Paul Electronic active( of Gibson) was very good model ,with an pré-amp incorpored

[@MrTxemaserrano]

Lomus Pedals has the Need Café pedal, with two volumes and a TBX. It has a bypass switch too. I've got one!

[@minerock16]

Are you psychic or something? I've just been doing research on pickup simulators for the last couple of weeks, then you conveniently drop this video. I'm gonna need you to stay out of my head 😅

[@oqsy]

get-ahh piddles are the coolest

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

The NZ accent is taking over🔥🔥🤣

[@oqsy]

@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar 😂👍

[@TorySlusher]

just a suggestion, ... maybe build the distortion and this pedal idea into one unit. i.e. two switches, etc. like a Seymour twin tube type pedal, etc. The two circuits already seem to go together well.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

That is a great option! But it does miss the point a little for why someone would want to build one of these, and that's to get more out of what you already have :)

[@mickthebandit]

Hey everyone. Let’s piddle 😂

[@FilipArlet]

Some fuzzes (for example from messiahguitars) have choke or similar knob that does exactly this.

[@evanrapp]

If you just use this with fuzz, build it into the fuzz pedal.

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

The new zz top style pedals do what you want

[@fuzzywuzzyband]

Wild

[@thickerbrummietwat]

Piddle? 😅

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

Most fuzz make good overdrive pedals but it's all about the number of transistors and the pot value on the fuzz /volume control

[@lileffects]

I’ve been building these for years. Great video!

[@zedcarr6128]

6:45 Don't connect a wire between the earth (ground) tabs of the jack sockets AND have a connection through the metal case, this could cause an earth (ground) loop that could induce hum and noise into your signal. It should be one or the other, although the simplest and most logical way is through the case. Just make sure there is a good connection, less than an Ohm, between the earth (ground) tabs of the sockets when you have installed them.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

In theory true, but in practice I have never experienced this after building 100's & 100's of units....could be a cool video to explore though, thanks :)

[@SirPondmatter]

What's a "peedle"?

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

It's what New Zealanders call a "Pedal", I think it's catching on 🤣

[@sharonlee4773]

What's a Pidel?

[@georgevillanueva6926]

0:55 fuzz plus antibiotics turns into klon gotcha

[@lespaulguy.9700]

That would be cool in a volume pedal format.

[@boygood]

Could you give us some other transformer chosion? I just finded 420TM019 is not popular to buy in local.

[@TeleCaster66]

I'm looking for the schematic and don't see it in your pedal schematics, what am I missing?

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

This schematic + other goodies are available to my fourthwall members, I've got links in the description, cheers!

[@trafalgarsquare9019]

No encuentro ese transformador en mi pais , cual otro puedo usar?

[@MortalKastorR]

Not sure about this one, could you try it with a muff type pedal because for me the sound you are using is simply not a fuzz.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

It works great with any Fuzz that cleans up with your volume, build one a give it a try 🎸

[@deeseen3495]

Great stuff.. Quick question, have you a treble bleed in that guitar you're using there?

[@onlyusernameleft2]

🤔 I plug a wireless receiver into the first pedal on my board so my fuzz choices are limited. I've been going over the spec sheets of all my pedals to see which has an output impedance that most closely matches strat pickups. I wonder if this would work in lieu of rearranging my entire board.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Yes, this would totally fix your issue, thanks for checking it out!

[@rudispruell883]

Waylon, what is the body wood on your guitar? Pretty great looking instrument

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

It's a nice piece of Swamp Ash, cheers!

[@potul]

Is this a version of Jack Orman's Guitar pickup simulator?

[@maorienteg]

Yup, which was an adaptation to Craig Anderton's 1975 EPFM #3 Passive Tone Control

[@potul]

@@maorienteg I wan't aware of this, I will look into it.

[@jaket11800]

Thoughts on making one without a switch? I’ve got a Hendrix octave fuzz that I have to run at the front of my rig and I was thinking about just having this always on before it so I can place it where I want.

[@MirlitronOne]

Always make your own piddle.

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

A ground wire on every component gives me a quieter pedal. What do you think

[@oliverlangrall2014]

Does it have to be this exact transformer or can I use any audio transformer?

[@DMSProduktions]

COULD this be used like an 'underdrive' with a single channel amp that's already overdriven to clean it up without using the guitar volume?

[@GabrielKarrby]

Hey Waylon. I emailed you some questions about the 73 Preamp schematics. Can you please reply and clarify, excited to got it going 🙂

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Hi Gabriel, I have not got you email, did you send it through my fourthwall.com page?

[@miquelmarti6537]

Would that make a wireless system able to run a fuzz on the recieving side? That would be BIG

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Yes, Guitar>>>Wireless Transmitter>>>Wireless Receiver>>>Antibuffer>>>FUZZ ✅

[@blueshawk60]

Hi I’m new to this is there a list of parts for this anti buffer. Also were you can get the parts. Thanks

[@Grumpyoldman60]

Where does the tone cap go in the pedal

[@davidausterman5915]

What's the red pedal with 2 knobs??

[@waynegram8907]

What is an Anti-Buffer? What is the Anti-Buffer circuit doing?

[@michaelventi2248]

So, is this just a green gizmo with a tone control?

[@patrickmcmanus5373]

Not a negative buffer but a reverse boost?

[@jeffv.akaonsjeffke9865]

But what transfor is that ???

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

"What is a "buffered bypass ?"--please clarify !

[@british1970s]

I am having trouble sourcing the 42tmo19 transformer. Does anyone know where to get one from?

[@RulgertGhostalker]

why not just put a passive fuzz in your guitar?

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

I have not heard a good passive Fuzz before but a passive overdrive can work!

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar but i thought the purpose of the symbiotic effect was to restore reactivity to passive pedals....i always try to get a grip on what any circuit is doing first, i couldn't exactly manage to do that with the video information, so excuse me if i am wrong.

[@Peter_S_]

@@RulgertGhostalker It is a passive pedal to restore reactivity to active fuzz pedals, in particular to simple transistor circuits like the Fuzz Face and all of the offspring which are highly reactive to the guitar's inductance. The transistors in the fuzz and pickups form a relationship which is lost when you add a buffer between them and the transistors no longer "see" the pickup inductance. This passive pedal sits after a buffer circuit and adds the transformer to simulate the pickup inductance which gives the transistors a new relationship to do their magic.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

@@Peter_S_ thank you....I am sure other viewers will also appreciate your extended explanation here, thank you.

[@jonbarnett9363]

Okay...make it a loop switch so that it only turns the fuzz on when this is engaged. Seems like a no-brainer.

[@peteytwofinger]

so this is the " pick up simulator " pedal , yes i built one . yes it works great

[@robertsteinberger]

Why not build such a circuit into your fuzz pedal itself?

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Cause then you can't use it with other fuzz pedals, it also works great with loads of different pedals :)

[@robertsteinberger]

@@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar could also be used to compensate for the difference in guitars if you use 2 different instruments on stage

[@swampdevilguitars]

Where does capacitor go? I didn't see it in pedal, just zero ohm on switch.

[@Peter_S_]

It's under the input jack and out of view. He points to one cap lead which connects to the tone pot and the other cap lead goes to the ground lug on the input jack.

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

Thanks Peter :)

[@swampdevilguitars]

I joined site, the schematic for this pedal is not there. Is one with battery and a flip dot, looks much different. Is this schematic also available? I can probably figure put with video

[@warthogA10]

Fuzz pedos?? 🤨

[@rafzan]

"Im gonna show you how that cool little flip dot circuit works inside"... Huh show here what the hell

[@WaylonMcPhersonGuitar]

That's on my fourthwall page for my members, links in the comments, cheers!