How to Start Your Own Boutique Pedal Business
Me wanty. dano at beavis audio research has released the Beavis Board. This makes prototyping guitar effects so much easier. I’ve played around with a couple of breadboards, building fuzz circuits here and there, but was always disappointed by having jacks, 9 volts, and switches hanging off umbilicals. It became too much of a bother to get set up, and was certainly something I’d want to be working with for any amount of time. Unless you want to commit to a protoboard, projects look like a handful of rainbow spaghetti. With the Beavis Board, I can see hours of endless fun tweaking pots, and swapping caps without worrying about constantly dislodging dangling devices.
There are so many DIY stompbox sites out there, I’m amazed that this hasn’t been done before. There is an opensource DSP effect prototyper called Coyote-1 which is offered by Howler Audio though I don’t see any actual pictures of the unit anywhere on the site. If anyone has bought one, let me know they exist.
The beavis board is designed to give you a platform for learning and building. If you can follow along with simple instructions, you can start building and modding a classic and new stompbox circuits.
